amazing grace

     

"Amazing Grace" is a well-known Christian hymn. The wors were written late in 1772 by Englishman John Newton. They first appeared in print in Newton's Olney Hymns (1779), which he worked on with William Cowper.

Trivia about amazing grace

  • "How sweet the sound" of this song, the title of a 1972 Aretha Franklin gospel album
  • This hymn says, "How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!"
  • Following a stormy trip aboard a ship at sea, Reverend John Newton wrote the words to this popular hymn
  • It's the 18th century hymn heard here in an updated version
  • "How sweet the sound" of Meryl Streep singing this hymn on the soundtrack to the film "Silkwood"