It's very appealing, answering as it does the perennial "How could there be a loving God if there's torture and war and orphans and famine and disease and cruelty and floods and volcanoes and stuff" question by positing that under "earth's lamentation" there is a far-off song of joy, the music that finds an echo in our soul.

Don't know how it stacks up logically or theologically (if that's not in itself a contradiction in terms), but it's vaguely reassuring.

Two questions driving me mad at the moment.

1) Who's Cordelia's Dad, credited as the singer on the version in the Pete Seeger collection Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

2) Who's the tyrant listening worriedly to his death-knell in this version?

and

2 and a half) What has Lord of the Rings got to do with it in this version?