The President Sang Amazing Grace

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 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 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