Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Words and Music by JOHN NEWTON, JOHN P. REES and EDWIN OTHELLO EXCELL
Arrangement and additional chorus by CHRIS TOMLIN and LOUIE GIGLIO
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CONTINUED...
VERSE 1:
VERSE 3:
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Amaz - ing Grace, how
That saved a wretch like
I once
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was lost, but now
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Was blind but now
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sweet the sound,
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me.
The Lord
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has promised good
His word my hope secures.
I'm found,
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He will
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my
As long as
see.
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to me,
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shield and por - tion be,
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’Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear,
And Grace my fears re
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life endures.
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lieved.
How pre - cious did that Grace
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appear,
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The earth shall soon dissolve
The sun forbear to shine.
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The hour I first believed.
But God who called me here below,
CHORUS:
Will be for - ever mine,
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chains are
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gone, I’ve been set
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My God, my Savior has ransomed
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And like
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(REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)
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My
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a flood His mercy
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Unending love,
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free,
me.
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Will be for - ever mine,
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You are for - ever
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reigns,
Amazing Grace.
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Public Domain. Arr. Copyright © 2006 worshiptogether.com Songs/sixsteps Music/ASCAP (EMI CMG Publishing)
All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI Song No. 4768151
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mine.
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like snow,
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