Amazing Grace

(Trad./Arr.: Bill Maxwell)

Some believe that "Christian" is another word for "preachy." If that was the case, John Newton could not have been a Christian. He was a slave trader and was responsible for much pain and sorrow. One day he was literally hit in the head and in a light saw what the entire faith really meant: grace. Then he wrote Amazing Grace.

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost but now I'm found

Was blind but now I see

Twas grace that taught my heart to fear

And grace my fears relieved

How precious did that grace appear

The hour I first believed

Through many dangerous t? and s?

I have already come

This grace has bought me safe this far

And grace will leave me home

When we've been there ten-thousand years

Bright shining as the sun

We've no less days to sing God's praise

And when we've first begun

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound

That saved oh wretch

Like me I once was lost but now I'm found

Was blind but now I see