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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Music Lyrics 18. And today it's the song "Amazing Grace. "
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We're going explain the lyrics to this song originally written by John Newton.
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Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. This song is about John Newton's
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personal thanks to God who he believes saved him by helping him survive a
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life-threatening storm at sea. So he was a sailor. Yeah. I remember reading about
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this. He was a sailor at sea and there was a bad storm and they all thought
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they were going to die. I think him and another sailor went up to the top to try
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to stop and the other sailor it got pulled away with the waves and never seen again.
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And he had to hold himself on you know, to the wheel. The wheel to stir the boat
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to steer the boat for I think 11 hours. He practically had to tie himself to the
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boat. And of course at this time he was asking God to save him. So this was his
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experience this is what ended up being a life-changing experience for him. So
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let's continue here. So it was a life-changing experience that helped him
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go from being a profane ill-mannered slave trading sailor. Well profane you
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know, he did a lot of bad things. He well first of all he probably cursed a lot.
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Maybe cursed God you know , used the Lord's name in vain. He did many terrible things
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I think they said even for a rough sailor, other sailors were still shocked
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by him. That his behavior had gotten so bad at one point. So ill-mannered bad
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slave trading. So he was actually way back in the day when there was slave
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trades and he was a sailor on one of those slave trading boats. So anyway he
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changed from being that sort of a person to a devout follower of God. Yeah
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from from researching what I found out is of course he his mother did teach him
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some religion when he was young , but then his mother died. And his father was a
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sailor and his father was away all the time and then he eventually became a
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sailor himself. And so of course he completely
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you know, fell away from the religion completely .
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And of course he had this life-changing experience where he he believed that God
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was the one that saved him that night. That gave him the strength to hold on
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and you know for 11 hours straight and tying himself in trying to control that
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wheel where he saved himself and the rest of the crew that was still alive. So
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basically that's what did it. Anyway, later on of course he ended up becoming
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a preacher. I think a Protestant preacher himself or so he you know after he
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stopped being a salad he went and you know he yea became a preacher. Okay. So
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let's continue. Anyway just like usual let's get into it. Let's start singing it
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and explain the lyrics as we go along. Well even, even the title here.
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Remembers Amazing Grace. If we say something is amazing it's surprising and
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impressive. All right. Grace has a slightly different
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meaning here than we usually hear. It's kind of like a religious meaning of
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grace which means according to religious belief the love and kindness that God
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gives to people. That's what we mean by grace. That's well we often hear somebody say
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you know, by the grace of God. You know, something something happened the
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goodness or kindness of God . So that's what that's what the title is about.
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'Amazing Grace.' Well so anyway, let's get into it.
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Here it goes. Amazing grace, How sweet the sound. That saved a wretch like me. I
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once was lost, but now I'm found. Was blind but now I see. All right. Again,
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we already explained Amazing Grace. How sweet the sound that saved a wretch. Well
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he's calling himself a wretch because that's what he thought he was. He thought he was
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a bad person. He thought he was a sinner. He did a lot of terrible things and
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that's why in some ways he couldn't believe that you know, maybe God would
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help, help save him. that he didn't deserve
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it. So that's what that's what that line is about. That saved a wretch like me. I
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once was lost. All right. What does he mean by lost ? We can have a couple of meanings
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here. It could be spiritually or physically
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doomed because you know, he was a bad person or at least he thought he was. Or
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unable to understand something you could be lost in that way. So when he says I
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once was lost, but now I'm found meaning well of course you know he's
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seen what he believes is the right way. He returned to his religion basically. So
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he's found again you know, he's on the right path. That's what he means. Yes. I'm
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found, was blind but now I see. So obviously, all the years that he thought
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he was a wretch or a bad person. That's what he believed he was blind he
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couldn't see the right way. So but now he can see. All right. Let's continue. 'Twas
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grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved. How precious did
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that grace appear the hour I first believed.
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All right. So 'twas grace was grace. Well again back to the same meaning here of
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grace. The religious meaning of grace which is a loving kindness of God. So, so
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;'twas grace that made by heart to fear. If you're a bad person and you think you're
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bad and doing a lot of bad things. And you realize that you know maybe
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you know you're following the wrong path. You might be afraid. But at the same time
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he says and grace my fears relieved. So once he you know he returned to the
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religion he he he felt like he was doing the right thing again. How precious did
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that grace appear the hour I first believed. So once he first, once he was
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really... when he thought he was saved and he started to become religious and he , he
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started to feel better right away. That's what he's saying.
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Okay. Now let's continue. Through many dangers , toils, and snares. I have already
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come. All right. Danger and dangerous times. Toils here we say toil,
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difficult to tiring work. Really, really hard work like sometimes you can't think
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how can I just take all this hard work. Well there's trouble in life. And snares
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Snares of course can mean a trap or a trick somebody trapped you, caught you,
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enslaved you, something like that. So a snare trap or trick. Snares I've already
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come. 'twas Grace has brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home. So
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again, he feels like he found the way. He feels like you found this grace the
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grace of God or whatever. So that he feels like he's on the right path again.
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Okay and then of course he goes on it Probably repeats the, the chorus
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again. You know . Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. That saved a wretch like me. I
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once was lost but now I'm found , was blind but now I see. All right, and then
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it goes into pretty much the last chorus here. It says, When we've been there ten
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thousand years bright shining as the Sun. We've no less days to sing
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God's praise than when we first begun. Yeah. I think he actually wrote this because
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he was trying to it was actually for a sermon to inspire his people and he
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thought of his own story and that's when he brought this out. And of course this
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this song has been recorded by many, many almost countless amounts of famous
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singers. And I just name a few here. So let's continue here. Tthe song has been
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recorded by numerous famous artists such as Diana Ross, the three tenors, remember
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like Pavarotti, Julio Iglesias and the other guy. Whitney Houston, Celine
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Dion you know , etc . oh I'm I skipped some here Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin,
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Willie Nelson, LeAnn Rimes. She did a very good version of it. and Whitney Houston's
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version is also very, very good. Anyway, not only that though. We say here the
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song is also thought of as an anthem to the civil rights movement. So during the
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civil rights movement when Martin Luther King this song was very very big and it
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was actually even sung before his you know, " I have a dream speech. "
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So it's also connected to many events that happened. It was sung before and
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after many great events it was sung before and after MLK Martin Luther
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King's I gave I have a dream speech, the freeing of Nelson Mandela , when the
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people in South Africa we were rejoicing, they were singing this song. The fall of
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the Berlin Wall, When the Berlin Wall finally fell down
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it was played then at that time too. After 9/11 as well all in in comfort
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like to comfort the people and you know in a way of giving thanks or giving
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thanks to God. So it's very interesting. Even if, even if you're not religious.
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It's it's got a very beautiful or Angelic Sort of a hymn and tuned to it.
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So it always be good to check it out probably you might already even be
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familiar with with the flow of the music or the hymn of
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the music. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was enjoyable. Thank you for your
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time. Bye-bye.