Lyrics to
Amazing Grace

This version of Amazing Grace was released by Rod Stewart in 1971.

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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

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About Lyrics and Amazing Grace by Rod Stewart

When you decide to study the lyrics to Amazing Grace, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Rod Stewart. Some of the lyrics to Amazing Grace have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Rod Stewart and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Amazing Grace if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Amazing Grace" means the words set to the music of Amazing Grace, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rod Stewart. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Amazing Grace and the lyrics to Amazing Grace are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rod Stewart who came here looking just for the lyrics to Amazing Grace, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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