SMMP - Amazing Grace written by John Newton, music plays in background while you can sing along, education, bulletin, search and more. www.smmp.com

Tundra Books - The story of the hymn by Linda Granfield illustrated by Janet Wilson, teacher guide, history, slavery, language, music, religion. www.tundrabooks.com

Mal Pope - Amazing Grace the musical - by Mal Pope, returns to theatres in the Autumn of 2006, some of the songs from the show not available on the CD. www.malpope.com

I Grace Music - Amazing Grace, American folk tune, lead sheet - real key, overhead, chord chart, demo mp3. www.igracemusic.com



'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 hath brought me safe thus far
And Grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me.
His Word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.

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'd first begun.

Words wrote by John Newton and found at SMMP.

John Newton

John Newton
The words to the popular hymn "Amazing Grace" were written by a man who was both a slave trader and abolitionist. John Newton was a man of paradoxes: for many years he earned his living from the slave trade, and yet he was for a short while a slave himself, planting lime trees in Sierra Leone. A horrific storm at sea in 1748 led Newton to his new life as a minister and anti-slavery activist. He recollected both his deliverance from the storm, and his life without God, in his most famous creation.

Tundra Books lets you look into the life and history behind the man John Newton the man who wrote the famous hymn Amazing Grace.