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''This article is about the hymn. For the movie of the same name, see [[Amazing Grace (movie)]].''
'''''Amazing Grace''''' is a [[poem]] by slave ship captain [[John Newton]], that was eventually set to an American tune of an old plantation melody entitled "''Loving Lambs''". That tune is the one we now know so well as ''Amazing Grace''.<ref>http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/htmlpages/amazing.html</ref>
==Original Text==
==Original Text==
:::''Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)<br>
:::''Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)<br>
:::''That sav<nowiki>'</nowiki>d a wretch like me!''<br>
:::''That sav'd a wretch like me!''<br>
:::''I once was lost, but now am found,''<br>
:::''I once was lost, but now am found,''<br>
:::''Was blind, but now I see.<br>
:::''Was blind, but now I see.<br>
:::''Thro' many dangers, toils and snares,''<br>
:::''Thro' many dangers, toils and snares,''<br>
:::''I have already come;''<br>
:::''I have already come;''<br>
:::''<nowiki>'</nowiki>Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,''<br>
:::'''Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,''<br>
:::''And grace will lead me home.''<br>
:::''And grace will lead me home.''<br>
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:::''But God, who call'd me here below,<br>
:::''But God, who call'd me here below,<br>
:::''Will be for ever mine.'''''
:::''Will be for ever mine.'''''
== Reference ==
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