Amazing Grace Chords
by Johnny Cash
Amazing Grace by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C#. It uses the chords C#, F#, G#7, D, G and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C# F#
C# F# C#
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
G#7
That saved a wretch like me.
C# F# C#
I once was lost, but now im found,
G#7 C#
Was blind, but now I see.
C# F# C#
was grace that thought my heart to fear,
G#7 C#
and grace my fears released. How precious
F# C# G#7 C#
did that grace appear, the hour I first believed.
D G D
When we've been there ten thousand years,
D A7
bright shining as the sun,
D G D
we've no less days to sing god's praise
D A7 D
than when we first begun.