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  • Did Lucius Chapin write the Amazing Grace tune?

    Did Lucius Chapin write the Amazing Grace tune?

    The melody sung to John Newton’s 1779 hymn “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound” is, without a doubt, America’s best-loved hymn tune. An 1828 manuscript by Lucius Chapin (1760-1842), who was famous in his day as a hymn tune writer, raises the possibility that Lucius was its composer.