Rod McDonald wrote Sailor's Prayer, and it has long been a favorite of mine. I guess I don't keep a mental list of songs to KEEP myself from crying, (though I really do LIKE hopeful, positive songs) because I have a difficult time letting myself cry. I'm more interested in ones that will help me TO cry. One is the Black national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, especially the second verse, which refers to "the blood of the slaughtered".

Mary McCaffrey