We Shall Overcome

Walking through the Capitol today, I heard a group of people doing a particularly moving rendition of this old protest song:

We shall overcome, we shall overcome,

We shall overcome someday;

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,

We shall overcome someday.

There are so many beautiful versions of this song on youtube, both talking about it and singing it, beginning with my hero, Martin Luther King, Jr. Maybe the most famous version of the song is Joan Baez's, but I also dig, as usual, the cover by The Boss.

I hear the protesters nearly daily, and though I don't join in their singing, I do join them in this wish:

We'll walk hand in hand, we'll walk hand in hand,

We'll walk hand in hand someday;

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,

We'll walk hand in hand someday.

And I truly believe this:

The truth shall set us free , the truth shall set us free,

The truth shall set us free someday;

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,

The truth shall set us free someday.

Now, if we could just start telling the truth. All of us.