AFRITUNES WEEK 40| AMAZING GRACE BY JOHN NEWTON

Hello hive Afritunes! This is @ernesto6402. For the purpose of this week's contest, I will be doing a very popular hymn titled amazing grace.

The song Amazing Grace is one of the first hymn I can across as a young chorister. And beyond being the first, it was one of my best. Amazing till date remains a song of consolation for me. It is a song that remains of God's perfect love.

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The original amazing grace by John Newton is a classical hymn with about seven verses. But for the sake of my own version, I will not be taking hymnal version of the **amazing grace I will be taking only the first and second verse of the original song.

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Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.

’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.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who called me here below,
Will be forever mine.

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
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