Nobody sings about hope anymore, and can you blame them? Our religious institutions have jettisoned suffering and sacrifice on behalf of the hopeless for a self-righteous brand of crony capitalism that's as restricted and anti-Christ as any secular private club.
As the rich -- both religious and not -- get richer the hope that the rest of us have to climb out of the pit of debt and despair recedes.
The remarkable thing is, it's the ones who have the least that help the most.
That's where this song comes from. Though it has its roots in one of the Olney hymns of former slave ship captain, John Newton, it took shape in black churches among people disenfranchised, and lynched for sport.
And yet, and yet ... they sang this.
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