Please Enable JavaScript. One verse of Amazing Grace on electric piano. To echo John Newton. 4 August 1725 – 21 December 1807 A quiet rendition by Jp performed through Cakewalk . In the key of A — A Major scale (three sharps scale, starts from A). Commonly is performed in G Major scale (one sharp scale, starts from G). Audio is licensed under CC0 (Public Domain — no restriction) . About Amazing Grace 📜 John Newton wrote the lyrics (hymn). It wasn't metaphor — it was fact. He wrote his hymns in 1772 — after his soul heard and felt, Hey . First published in February 1779 as Olney Hymns — curated work of John Newton and his poet friend, William Cowper (1731–1800). Page 53 in Olney Hymns, the verses that would become known as "Amazing Grace". Amazing Grace lyrics is taken from Hymn XLI (41) verses — page 53 and 54 — of Olney Hymns. Olney is a market town in Buckinghamshire, South East England. I. Ch...