Show sir arthur sullivan s error sir arthur sullivan was at one time greatly worried about what appeared to him to be a bad inconsistency in the lost chord sir john robinson tells the story the words are I 1 struck one chord ot music like the bound of a great amen now amen Is a word ot two syllables so that there must have been two chords he did not notice this he said until after the song had been sung in public and he was terribly afraid he would get laughed at or it strange to say no body ever seemed to have found it out |