I am an old Democrat who has been traveling around doing shows in Republican towns in the

Midwest and it's making me a better person.

I stand up on a theater stage and I hum a note and the audience hums it back and I sing

my country to Zavvy and by the thee they're singing so beautifully and they're thrilled

to do it.

They thought I was going to do stand up but here we are singing America and they know

the words.

It's a Protestant crowd and as you know when Martin Luther launched the Reformation he

substituted congregational singing for Latin, Liturgy and clerical customary and now here

are a thousand of them singing for part harmony, no organ, no piano and they love it.

We go into the spacious skies, the amber waves of grain, to do Ron, Ron, to do Ron, Ron

and the bright golden haze on the meadow and working on the railroad songs they have in

some since grade school and I know that they believe a lot of trashy stuff that isn't

remotely true and guess what, I don't care.

I love these people.

Maybe they see me as a guy who's out to tax the pants off them and confiscate guns and

teach gender transition to third graders but guess what, they don't care.

I sing my eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord and they sing it joyfully

and maybe they belong to a big church with an organ, the size of a cattle truck and an

organist who loves the eclectic and is contemptuous of the standards and here is this old lefty

singing, oh Lord my God when I an awesome wonder and this is their first chance in decades

to sing how great thou art and they put their shoulder to it and they sing it with

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