Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace is a well-known hymn. The words were written c. 1772 by Englishman John Newton; they form a part of the Olney Hymns that he worked on, with William Cowper and other hymnodists.

The melody most often used for this hymn was not original. As with other hymns of this period, the words were sung to a number of tunes before it became linked to the current tune that appeared in American hymnbooks of the 1830s.