This is my redeveloped version of Amazing Grace by Edwin Othello Excell, John Newton and John P. Rees.The following verses are aimed at changing the traditional American focus of self-centered justification by grace to marginalized freedom through justice. There are also sub themes of America’s history of oppression and the center’s current state of inaction.

“Simple Justice”

Lady Justice how sweet her song

that saved the oppressed beneath

What once was lost now is crowned

here the blind teach man to see

‘Twas solidarity that showed my heart true fear,

and my fears Christ alone did relieve,

how safe distanced grace does appear

when it is unity that he did preach

Christ came so we may live life abundantly

and by our Lady this hope is secured

For by her all are set free

as long as life endures

 Through glass ceilings, stereotypes and prejudice

Justice hath broken through,

‘twas she who gave hospitality

and grace that kept beneath

Yes when the march and riot did avail

and the President issued his decree

Privilege wrote that margin prevailed

A counterfeit of history

Truth shall soon be unknown

and sons will abstain to decline

the privilege which has only grown

in this generation’s time

For here we have been ten thousand days

dark oppression still lurks as the night

and we’ve no more civil right

than when we first began