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Amazing Grace Written by John Newton (1725-1807), an Englishman who captained his own slave ship and who received his "great deliverance" during a near-fatal 1748 storm that prompted the song. He survived to become an Evangelical minister and prolific composer of church hymns.

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 that fear relieved. How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed. Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come. 'Tis grace that brought me safe thus far, And grace shall lead me home. When we've been here a thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise Then when we'd first begun.

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