Amazing Grace

"Amazing Grace"
Page 53 of Olney Hymns showing the first stanza of the hymn beginning with "Amazing Grace!"
Genre	Christian hymn
Text	John Newton
Meter	8.6.8.6 (Common metre)
Melody	New Britain
Audio sample
Rendition by the United States Marine Band (vocalist with band accompaniment) file help

"Amazing Grace" is a poem written in 1772 by Englishman John Newton. The poem named, "Faith's Review and Expectation", was where the song came from. It was set to music. A seventh stanza, by an unknown author, has been added to most versions since 1829, beginning with the words, "When we've been there ten thousand years". In some versions, stanzas five and six to the song are cut and go directly to the seventh.