A while later, Spike Lee put a version of it in the souindtrack for Malcolm X.

And a while later, Rob Mathis' band played behind Betty LaVette and Jon Bon Jovi on it.

I heard the latter doing it on NPR while I was driving to the airport for my flight to work, part of the pre-inaugural activities at the Lincoln Memorial.

It was as close to a transcendent moment as any I'll have in my lifetime, and I felt sorrow for all the poor cousins of Rush and Ann and Sean who post here. They have known victories, and will undoubtedly know future victories.

But that's what they'll have to be satisfied with.