The President Sang Amazing Grace Lyrics - Joan Baez

A young man came to a house of prayer 

They did not ask what brought him there 

He was not friend, he was not kin 

But they opened the door and let him in 

And for an hour the stranger stayed 

He sat with them and seemed to pray 

But then the young man drew a gun 

And killed nine people, old and young 

In Charleston in the month of June 

The mourners gathered in a room 

The President came to speak some words 

And the cameras rolled and the nation heard 

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But no words could say what must be said 

For all the living and the dead 

So on that day and in that place 

The President sang Amazing Grace 

The President sang Amazing Grace 

We argued where to lay the blame 

On one man's hate or our nation's shame 

Some sickness of the mind or soul 

And how the wounds might be made whole 

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But no words could say what must be said 

For all the living and the dead 

So on that day and in that place 

The President sang Amazing Grace 

My President sang Amazing Grace