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Page 53 of Olney Hymns (1779), including Amazing Grace, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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A hymn published in 1779 with words by John Newton, usually sung to the tune New Britain.

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Numbers are frets and 0 is an open string. Standard tuning (E A D G B E). Each group of six lines is one system; read left to right, one column at a time. This is a multi-section arrangement of the public-domain melody.

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[Verse 1]
e|0-----------0---|0-------0-------|------------0---|----------------|
B|----1-----------|----1-------3---|1-------1-------|3---3-----------|
G|0-------0-------|----------------|----2-------0---|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Verse 2]
e|0-----------0---|0-------0-------|------------0---|----------------|
B|----1-----------|----1-------3---|1-------1-------|3---1-----------|
G|0-------0-------|----------------|----2-------0---|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Verse 3]
e|0-----------0---|0-------0-------|------------0---|----------------|
B|----1-----------|----1-------3---|1-------1-------|3---3-----------|
G|0-------0-------|----------------|----2-------0---|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

[Final verse]
e|0-----------0---|0-------0-------|------------0---|----------------|
B|----1-----------|----1-------3---|1-------1-------|3---1---1-------|
G|0-------0-------|----------------|----2-------0---|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|