Amazing Grace - Various Artists (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Amazing Grace (Various Artists). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-03-14. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Amazing Grace," words written by British Anglican clergyman John Newton and published in 1779, was put to music numerous times; however, in 1835 composter William Walker joined Newton's lyrics to the melody of "New Britain," which is the song we have come to know (Lyrics, 2023; B. Piper, americansongwriter, 2020). The song has since been performed, according to historians per Piper (americansongwriter, 2020), more that ten million times. The verse beginning with "When we've been there ten thousand years . . ." was not written by Newton; it was added by "African American communities [who] borrowed it from a song titled 'Jerusalem, My Happy Home'" in the late 1700s (songfacts, 2023). The song has found it's way onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart a couple of times; Judy Collins' version rose to the no. 15 position in 1971 and no. 5 in the UK remaining on the UK chart for a remarkable 67 weeks and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards' instrumental version reached no. 11 in 1972 and no. 1 in the UK (Kutner & Leigh, 2005; songfacts, 2023). Whitburn, 2023).

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Lyrics:

Amazing grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I am 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 dangers, toils and snares
I have already come,
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead 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
Than when we've first begun.

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