Amazing Grace
Author: John Newton
Music Composer: Unknown
Sung by: The Irish Tenors

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.

T'was 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 dangers, toils and snares...
I have already come.
T'was Grace that brought me safe thus far...
and Grace will lead me home.

When we've been here ten thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,    
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.

Born: 04.08.1725
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 31.12.1807

The son of a merchant ship commander, young Newton grew up plying the Mediterranean ports of call.  Years later, as the master of a slave ship himself, Newton was saved from what he called his life of debauchery by his conversion amid a fierce storm. Ordained to the ministry in 1764 in the Anglican church, Newton used his pulpit to espouse his Calvinist theology and to rail against such social ills as his former livelihood, the abominable slave trade.  Yet while his ministry was popular, his gift for hymn writing was more enduring.

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