Last night I walked into the living room as the song was playing on the TV screen featuring the Democratic convention. I thought the singer sounded like John Prine, but I knew it couldn't be because I'd never heard the song before. This morning Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin mentioned Prine and song with a URL that took me to YouTube. What a magnificent composition. Prine went out on a grace note. The song's use as tribute to the 170,000 American victims of coronavirus (one of them, of course, Prine himself) was profoundly moving.
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