sang this song for about 8 straight hours at MLK's funeral procession. Still brings tears to me especially when it's sung as beautifully as this. leave it to his alma mater for this fantastic post
According to the Quote Investigator, Marian Wright Edelman recalled King saying, "Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step," during his first speech at Spelman College.
Jeff Parcells God bless you.we've never met and probably never will.But may God bless you, nay his Grace be upon you always...may he meet you at the point of your every need
This performance is a while back, but still remains powerful as ever. I shared this with Palestinian friends who are in dire state at the moment more than ever ...
.. hair standing on end - BEAUTIFUL.. each chorister is rich with legacy - in their faces, see their ancestors. In their voices, the love their ancestors have for them, comes shining through..♥. G:)d bless
I am from Fiji and my island nation is currently going through the second wave of coronavirus and it has hit us pretty bad. The health workers are exhausted, the nation is losing hope and everyday is like fighting a losing battle against an unknown enemy. I happened to remember we used to sing this back in our school and I looked up the song. This gave me so much hope, for myself and my nation 💙 we definitely shall overcome!
Dr. King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and all those who risked their lives for civil rights and stood on their principles to change our nation, this song is for you!!!
@@kamiyahthomas6093 not based on their dress, but the color of their skin. There are many societal stereotypes surrounding black young men, such as the belief that they're all drug dealing thugs.
These are the real Americans the MSM won't let you see, these great Americans and all those that enlist to serve our country day and night, protecting and defending USA with their strength and courage. th-cam.com/video/pgV6VUinDEA/w-d-xo.html
It's just the tuxedos that make them look nice. I suggest taking them, each one, out for a meal and a chat to find out how they really are in character.
I can't help but cry as I listen to this and reflect on all the racism we in this country are STILL dealing with. In my mind's eye I can still see the pictures in history books of African Americans, their backs striped with scars, others hung, others in chains. How brave it is for these individuals to believe in the future. How incredibly brave.
Still only a 4% fatality rate in the United States as of today and the media would have you believe its the Black Plague!! Im seriously thinking of buying a home security shotgun because if this countrys economy stays closed after May I think you could see civil unrest. Unreal.....and ridiculous to destroy the economy of a country for even a 10% fatality rate!
I do believe that we shall overcome someday......every time I hear this song I shed some tears for MLK, ...he was such a great man that I have no words to describe him. I just am thankful to the universe that he existed for a time in our lives.
I'm too young to completely understand the events that took place during the decade of the sixties. I was not there during the March On Washington on August 28 1963, and yet, I feel as if time, space, and human connection collides together and puts my soul there everytime I here this song. It gives me chills.
Hearing these beautiful voices brings thoughts of there ancestors,kidnapped,enslaved, and after countless hardships, trully overcome.God Bless them all.
the most stunning performance of this piece i've ever heard. the long phrases, each verse building in intensity, flawless musicianship, and of course the many layers of meaning - too beautiful.
Incredibly beautiful, soulful and inspirational. Thank you for sharing. As Dr. King said..."We may not all have come in on the same ship, but we're in the same boat now." Let's love & support one another - red, yellow, black or white.
I remember performing this song, as a young girl in 1989, at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow. I was not a very good singer, and my English far from perfect, but the audience (students from African and Asian countries) started to sing along as a choir, so it was an absolutely uplifting anf amazing experience! will never forget it, such a mighty song! Same spirit as Russian folk songs.
Whenever I am feeling down I listen to this song. It gives me the strength to get through my days. Some days I feel week and horrible and then I listen to this song. This video especially. It is so beautiful and awe inspiring. It makes me feel as if I am complete. God bless this choir. God bless this talent. A group of people so generously gifted by God. I am humbled by their ability to make me feel as if I am of worth. Praise the glory of Christ.
Don't you fucking relate Martin Luther Kings time to FERGUSON. This is NOTHING like that, OR CLOSE TO THAT. I find that VERY disrespectful, that you think this exaggerated thing is even CLOSE to 1960's.
Unfortunately we have become displacent, whether Mike Brown, Jim Brown, Tom Brown, It is a name that has awaken what has never stop.. Laws and policies to fit the time and place that we are currently living. For whatever reason we have become content in the way one is treated and the way we live.. Close your eyes to Mike Brown and open your eyes to the world nothings changed ( but the calendar).. We need only to first evaluate our prison systems and the structure in which it was made and currently running .. It's big business my Brother and sisters and we are the commodity...
Nahben Haben Unfortunately this isn't a laughing matter.. An for you to even think that I'm relating a totally different time to what is happening in today as it did in the 1965 and even earlier than King... There have been many struggles. Each takes on a different face as it has in prior generations .. and to be close minded to one is closed minded to Doctors Kings bigger vision and those before him... no this isn't a laughing matter.. but a human race matter...This isn't an attempt to put down your statements.. but an awakening that the struggle has never stopped.... know matter which way you chose to look at the issue...
I was 11 years old playing the trumpet and my band teacher taught us how to play this song, I am 33 years old and till now still bring tears to my eyes, God bless you Kieth Place best band teacher ever.
I am thankful that my friend Benjamin shared this most inspiring link with me. Praise God for these men, and I pray that their efforts will not be muted.
As I listen to this song that has lasted down through the years, I am encouraged to know that someday, after this old world has past and gone and troubles are no more, I truly believe that we will overcome and be able to rest in Heavenly Glory.
(IN TRIBUTE & PAYING RESPECTS, PRAYERS, CONDOLENCES, & WELL WISHES TO THE FAMILIES, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, & NUMEROUS ADMIRERS OF): Congressman John Lewis, the Rev. C.T. Vivian, & the Rev. Joseph Lowery. Rest well in Peaceful Paradise, gentlemen; you have more than done your numerous great civic duties & provided excellent leadership, along with dealing with many sacrifices, on this earth. Your spirits, along with pursuing your work & goals, will go on with us taking up the mantle for all three of you.
My wife and I have been attending the Spellman/Morehouse Christmas Concert (held 1st weekend of Dec. each year) for the last three years. We have been overwhelmed with the music offered by these two groups. I first heard the Morehouse Glee Club on NPR on a MLK celebration some 15 years ago. What an outstanding group they are. By the way, Dr. King sang in the Morehouse Glee Club.
Just a beautiful rendition of this beautiful song. I grew up in Compton California from 1962 through 1973 and sang in the prestigious Compton Boy Choir for three years (4th through 6th grade). We performed this song much like this Glee Club. Brought back many fond memories of those times. Thank you so much for posting!
Here's a beautiful song of hope, needed just as much today as when many of us sang in 1964 in Mississippi. That "arc of the moral universe" is indeed, VERY long!
... .Dr. Wendell Whalum arranged this particular version of "We Shall Overcome" ....As A music major at Spelman class of '73-74....Dr Whalum was professor of music and college organist at Morehouse College during my years as a member of the Morehouse-Spelman chorus....Dr Joyce F.Johnson was my piano and organ teacher at Spelman, and the very elegant and eloquent Dr.Roland Allison was the esteemed director of the Spelman college Glee club from my beginnings in the "Spelman Freshman glee club, as first sporano....along with the brilliant "Deborra Watts" and the magnificent lyric soprano, Jacqueline Paige,nicknamed "Frosty" by Dr Roland Allison, and Quintella Bell Ragland '74 who was beyond brilliant as a pianist, glee club member, and Delta Sigma Theta, better known as "Q" when she left the gates of Spelman on a graduation May morning while we all waited for the graduation excitement to kick-in....Long live the Morehouse-Spelman chorus 💯💯💯💯💯💯🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🤍🤎🤎🤍🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
This choir is wonderful. I came here after reading Dan Rather's post today. With the events this past weekend in Charlottesville and the responses of our "president", this provides me with some solace and hope that this shall pass and we will go on. We have to.
Wow, Bill, thanks for sharing this moving version of the anthem of the Civil Rights movement. It brings back such memories for me--of singing it so many times in a small church in Shaw & Cleveland Ms. when I was a volunteer in the S. Freedom Summer Project, and in Jackson, a large group of us being led by Pete Seeger. The MH Glee Club has turned it into such an artistic piece. It was a song of hope 52 years ago, and just as much today, though in different circumstances. We need it just as much now. Racism has been de-institutionalized in our nation, but not eradicated from the hearts of many of our fellow citizens.
Lindo, emocionante, profundo, cheio de história... Para que a gente não se canse de continuar acreditando que todos nós seremos livres um dia... E que chegue logo esse dia... E que seja um dia sem fim...
sang this song for about 8 straight hours at MLK's funeral procession. Still brings tears to me especially when it's sung as beautifully as this. leave it to his alma mater for this fantastic post
Wow! Thanks for sharing.
Were you at the funeral in person?
You are loved.
welcome to fact or cap where we test these theories
That’s amazing! It’s so sad that a Champion of Civil Rights was Assassinated for what he truly believed in. RIP Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
According to the Quote Investigator, Marian Wright Edelman recalled King saying, "Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step," during his first speech at Spelman College.
It' s BEAUTIFULL !!!
47 years ago in Georgia I was afraid and beaten. I look at these young men and i apologize for being afraid. Jeff
Jeff Parcells God bless you.we've never met and probably never will.But may God bless you, nay his Grace be upon you always...may he meet you at the point of your every need
sorry that you felt mate love u
But you are alive.. To me that is what matters. You made it when many didnt.
Jeff Parcells God bless you!
no need, ever, Jeff, to apologise. you were still there. god bless you!
Having a bad day? thinking there's nothing left for you? Listen to this. Please.
preach brother.
This performance is a while back, but still remains powerful as ever.
I shared this with Palestinian friends who are in dire state at the moment more than ever ...
I am moved to tears, "No one is free until we are all free!"
I came here for comfort and was not disappointed.
The forces of love will triumph over the forces of hate
MetaFess Me too, I'm actually sobbing... I'm hoping our future grows brighter.
Me too.
"We are not afraid!"
The future is what we make of it. We won't let that bloated hatemonger steal it from us.
Taylor Desloge I agree
.. hair standing on end - BEAUTIFUL.. each chorister is rich with legacy - in their faces, see their ancestors. In their voices, the love their ancestors have for them, comes shining through..♥. G:)d bless
Celebrating Dr.King on his birthday!! His college men's choir; continue resting in power, Emperor!
I am from Fiji and my island nation is currently going through the second wave of coronavirus and it has hit us pretty bad. The health workers are exhausted, the nation is losing hope and everyday is like fighting a losing battle against an unknown enemy. I happened to remember we used to sing this back in our school and I looked up the song. This gave me so much hope, for myself and my nation 💙 we definitely shall overcome!
Sorry to hear that! What is the vaccine situation over there?
Sending love and strength 🙏🏻 this song is deep and beautiful , what a beautiful rendition! ❤❤❤❤💪🏼
Dr. King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and all those who risked their lives for civil rights and stood on their principles to change our nation, this song is for you!!!
These are young college students. Not thugs nor dope dealers like the media would have you believe. God bless you all!
Why would the media make us believe a bunch of guys in tuxedos on bleachers were thugs
@@kamiyahthomas6093 not based on their dress, but the color of their skin. There are many societal stereotypes surrounding black young men, such as the belief that they're all drug dealing thugs.
These are the real Americans the MSM won't let you see, these great Americans and all those that enlist to serve our country day and night, protecting and defending USA with their strength and courage. th-cam.com/video/pgV6VUinDEA/w-d-xo.html
It's just the tuxedos that make them look nice. I suggest taking them, each one, out for a meal and a chat to find out how they really are in character.
@@pmjhns
Pretty silly Pam to think you would see the REAL person over a hour or so meal.
I can't help but cry as I listen to this and reflect on all the racism we in this country are STILL dealing with. In my mind's eye I can still see the pictures in history books of African Americans, their backs striped with scars, others hung, others in chains. How brave it is for these individuals to believe in the future. How incredibly brave.
beautiful! Beautiful!!BEAUTIFUL!!!
Most of the racism today is against white people. We shall overcome some day.
One of the most powerful expressions of the human spirit. It takes my breath away every time I listen. Absolutely incredible. 🙏🙏
Today whole world need to listen and pray...#coronavirus
Still only a 4% fatality rate in the United States as of today and the media would have you believe its the Black Plague!!
Im seriously thinking of buying a home security shotgun because if this countrys economy stays closed after May I think you could see civil unrest.
Unreal.....and ridiculous to destroy the economy of a country for even a 10% fatality rate!
We shall overcome the cultural barrier, the language barrier, the race barrier, the class barrier, the country barrier, all folks around world, unite
I do believe that we shall overcome someday......every time I hear this song I shed some tears for MLK, ...he was such a great man that I have no words to describe him. I just am thankful to the universe that he existed for a time in our lives.
who else found this song through school and now feels blessed to hear their message!
Same! It’s a very calming song
We are NOT afraid; we are not afraid; we are not afraid today! Beautiful.
OK but when still waiting for that time well' I have news wake up" I heard this when I was 5
Yep, Ronald Williams-EL. The trouble is that black "leaders" were more concerned about the underclass when they were among that population.
I'm too young to completely understand the events that took place during the decade of the sixties. I was not there during the March On Washington on August 28 1963, and yet, I feel as if time, space, and human connection collides together and puts my soul there everytime I here this song. It gives me chills.
What a powerful statement
Annabelle Lee non hai perso niente, io ho vissuto il '68 e nulla è cambiato
So True
so moving. I grew up in the segregated South. may we all overcome our narrow bigotry someday
Indeed... and the secret for it is true love for all ❤
Powerful man😢😢😢he died so young and he died when he was 39
Ths Song reminds me of my Late parents. May their Souls rest in peace
Hearing these beautiful voices brings thoughts of there ancestors,kidnapped,enslaved, and after countless hardships, trully overcome.God Bless them all.
Much needed these days for those whose hearts are aching.
This should be the anthem of human kind.
James Weldon Johnson, 1871 - 1938 find the song he wrote post civil war
It already is...🖤🖤🖤🙏🙏🙏
It is, there’s a popular version in almost every language
🙏
Slave music. Meant to keep us in a low vibrational state. Waiting for the "day", that'll never arrive. Wake up!
the most stunning performance of this piece i've ever heard. the long phrases, each verse building in intensity, flawless musicianship, and of course the many layers of meaning - too beautiful.
Incredibly beautiful, soulful and inspirational. Thank you for sharing. As Dr. King said..."We may not all have come in on the same ship, but we're in the same boat now." Let's love & support one another - red, yellow, black or white.
I agree with you
“Yellow”?
We shall overcome in 2020✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
thanks for such a nice performance
I remember performing this song, as a young girl in 1989, at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow. I was not a very good singer, and my English far from perfect, but the audience (students from African and Asian countries) started to sing along as a choir, so it was an absolutely uplifting anf amazing experience! will never forget it, such a mighty song! Same spirit as Russian folk songs.
I suddenly realized that this is what I needed to hear today 11/13/2016.
Listening to this and thinking of the people of Charleston and those who lost their lives in the racist terror attack on Mother Emanuel AME Church.
Biba Adams me too. with tears.
Biba Adams Me too. :'(
Listening to this as CNN was doing a memorial on the 9 new angels.
Biba Adams I am, too. :'(
Omg!!!!! I randomly went to video and see your comment! Crazy
This is absolutely oone of the best renditions of this song. I enjoyed it.
I've never heard anything like it. It's so beautiful, and so moving.
wow i have no words other than beautiful
Whenever I am feeling down I listen to this song. It gives me the strength to get through my days. Some days I feel week and horrible and then I listen to this song. This video especially. It is so beautiful and awe inspiring. It makes me feel as if I am complete. God bless this choir. God bless this talent. A group of people so generously gifted by God. I am humbled by their ability to make me feel as if I am of worth.
Praise the glory of Christ.
This song is giant hug 😔♥️
Flooding the internet with this! 💔🙏💙🙏❤
✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
The beauty and power of this song spoke to my generation and moved us to act...it hasn't grown old, but truer today than ever...beautiful
I Dedicate the song to the People of Ferguson MO. May they know that WE SHALL OVERCOME. May they find Peace and Begin to Heal.
And now to all people we feel like they can't breath...
Don't you fucking relate Martin Luther Kings time to FERGUSON. This is NOTHING like that, OR CLOSE TO THAT. I find that VERY disrespectful, that you think this exaggerated thing is even CLOSE to 1960's.
Unfortunately we have become displacent, whether Mike Brown, Jim Brown, Tom Brown, It is a name that has awaken what has never stop.. Laws and policies to fit the time and place that we are currently living. For whatever reason we have become content in the way one is treated and the way we live.. Close your eyes to Mike Brown and open your eyes to the world nothings changed ( but the calendar).. We need only to first evaluate our prison systems and the structure in which it was made and currently running .. It's big business my Brother and sisters and we are the commodity...
Vicky Wallace You make me laugh how you attempt to relate today to the struggles of colored people of Pre. 1965.
Nahben Haben Unfortunately this isn't a laughing matter.. An for you to even think that I'm relating a totally different time to what is happening in today as it did in the 1965 and even earlier than King... There have been many struggles. Each takes on a different face as it has in prior generations .. and to be close minded to one is closed minded to Doctors Kings bigger vision and those before him... no this isn't a laughing matter.. but a human race matter...This isn't an attempt to put down your statements.. but an awakening that the struggle has never stopped.... know matter which way you chose to look at the issue...
I was 11 years old playing the trumpet and my band teacher taught us how to play this song, I am 33 years old and till now still bring tears to my eyes, God bless you Kieth Place best band teacher ever.
I am thankful that my friend Benjamin shared this most inspiring link with me. Praise God for these men, and I pray that their efforts will not be muted.
We’ll walk hand in hand today
Deep in my heart I do believe that
We shall overcome someday
As I listen to this song that has lasted down through the years, I am encouraged to know that someday, after this old world has past and gone and troubles are no more, I truly believe that we will overcome and be able to rest in Heavenly Glory.
Beautiful words and they sang it so gracefully and harmoniously.
I find alot of consolation and encouragement in this lyrics.
Yes indeed we shall overcome some day when Jesus comes
This isn’t a song about waiting for a savior to liberate us. It’s a song about fighting for that liberation NOW, to bring about that day ourselves.
Years later, I still come back and watch. Beautiful!
what better tradition than this? what a resounding message and performance!
Makes my skin crawl...feeling melancholy listening to this song...knowing we shall overcome when I am long gone from this earth.
A beautifully compelling rendering of an epic hymn in a landmark struggle for own very own humanity.
This is absolutely beautiful and I love seeing our black men in this beautiful way. Their voices are truly a blessing from God.
(IN TRIBUTE & PAYING RESPECTS, PRAYERS, CONDOLENCES, & WELL WISHES TO THE FAMILIES, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, & NUMEROUS ADMIRERS OF): Congressman John Lewis, the Rev. C.T. Vivian, & the Rev. Joseph Lowery. Rest well in Peaceful Paradise, gentlemen; you have more than done your numerous great civic duties & provided excellent leadership, along with dealing with many sacrifices, on this earth. Your spirits, along with pursuing your work & goals, will go on with us taking up the mantle for all three of you.
This is encouragement to anyone to continue to walk through our lives here despite the difficulties while seeking God's own heart in our lives.
With the God we serve in our midst,we shall surely overcome this Corona🙏🙏
My wife and I have been attending the Spellman/Morehouse Christmas Concert (held 1st weekend of Dec. each year) for the last three years. We have been overwhelmed with the music offered by these two groups. I first heard the Morehouse Glee Club on NPR on a MLK celebration some 15 years ago. What an outstanding group they are. By the way, Dr. King sang in the Morehouse Glee Club.
We WILL overcome some day. We haven't achieved it yet, but we SHALL overcome!
If you haven't yet achieved it, you never will.
We need to come together. No race, no religion, no color, but as a people. We can definitely do better.🙏🏻❤️
Absolutely gorgeous, deeply moving and soulful. Unity is what evil fears, so we UNITE !
Amazing. Simply Amazing. I haven't heard this song in a long time. Just hearing this version of it was a blessing to me.
Teachers of kenya ,we shall overcome some day,deep in my heart ,I do believe we shall overcome someday
Just a beautiful rendition of this beautiful song. I grew up in Compton California from 1962 through 1973 and sang in the prestigious Compton Boy Choir for three years (4th through 6th grade).
We performed this song much like this Glee Club. Brought back many fond memories of those times.
Thank you so much for posting!
This is what young Black American men look like. Not thugs. Not degenerated. Young men who make America proud. KNOW IT
This is my daughter’s bedtime song. Inspirational each and every night!!
I just want to cry every time I hear this . I feel in my heart. such a joyous time it will be Praise God.
Here's a beautiful song of hope, needed just as much today as when many of us sang in 1964 in Mississippi. That "arc of the moral universe" is indeed, VERY long!
Simply and amazingly beautiful!
So beautiful. Thank you.
Perfect day for me to hear this beautiful and motivating song. Let's hope We shall overcome some day.
This is very much needed in a time like this. #GeorgeFloyd
... .Dr. Wendell Whalum arranged this particular version of "We Shall Overcome" ....As A music major at Spelman class of '73-74....Dr Whalum was professor of music and college organist at Morehouse College during my years as a member of the Morehouse-Spelman chorus....Dr Joyce F.Johnson was my piano and organ teacher at Spelman, and the very elegant and eloquent Dr.Roland Allison was the esteemed director of the Spelman college Glee club from my beginnings in the "Spelman Freshman glee club, as first sporano....along with the brilliant "Deborra Watts" and the magnificent lyric soprano, Jacqueline Paige,nicknamed "Frosty" by Dr Roland Allison, and Quintella Bell Ragland '74 who was beyond brilliant as a pianist, glee club member, and Delta Sigma Theta, better known as "Q" when she left the gates of Spelman on a graduation May morning while we all waited for the graduation excitement to kick-in....Long live the Morehouse-Spelman chorus 💯💯💯💯💯💯🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🤍🤎🤎🤍🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
I am from Jordan, I used to listen to this anthem in my fifth class in the longman English course, in 1987-1989 may be....
I love it...
Absolutely beautiful!!!
Heartfelt Sounds for such a time as this!
It gives my heart hope for now and future-what beautiful harmonizing and singing from so many YOUNG men!
This song binds all citizens of this planet like no other songs..
This choir is wonderful. I came here after reading Dan Rather's post today. With the events this past weekend in Charlottesville and the responses of our "president", this provides me with some solace and hope that this shall pass and we will go on. We have to.
Good Lord this is gorgeous.
Holy Mother of God, how beautiful - and powerful.
This song is timeless.
Wow, Bill, thanks for sharing this moving version of the anthem of the Civil Rights movement. It brings back such memories for me--of singing it so many times in a small church in Shaw & Cleveland Ms. when I was a volunteer in the S. Freedom Summer Project, and in Jackson, a large group of us being led by Pete Seeger. The MH Glee Club has turned it into such an artistic piece. It was a song of hope 52 years ago, and just as much today, though in different circumstances. We need it just as much now. Racism has been de-institutionalized in our nation, but not eradicated from the hearts of many of our fellow citizens.
They sing it so gracefully and perfect I did this in my 2nd grade play. Oh the childhood life you have to miss it.
The perfect blend and balance of beauty
Oh so beautiful touches the very soul
Tears in my eyes right now for the United States. Between the virus ravaging our country and the political chaos, 2021 is starting out rough.
Hopefully 2022 doesn't start out like 2021 did.
Returning four years later. It saddens my spirit every time I listen. They were excellent.
just beautiful
Lindo, emocionante, profundo, cheio de história... Para que a gente não se canse de continuar acreditando que todos nós seremos livres um dia... E que chegue logo esse dia... E que seja um dia sem fim...
Beautiful soulful singing...praying for our nation during this difficult time of Covid19.
Lovely, great sentiment for the times we live in🙏🙏Thank you all💪💖💖💖
I cried This is beyond beautiful
Now more than ever, I need to listen to this song, thank you for posting it.
2020😭😭😭
i know right...
Deep in my heart, I do believe, that we shall overcome some day.
Tears of thanks.
Since I understand the history of the song "We shall overcome", it sounds to my spirit everyday. What a powerful and peaceful hymn it is.
We all shall overcome someday !
POWERFUL, I LOVE THIS. YES WE WILL OVERCOME ONE DAY.
This is incredible. I feel like watching this version over and over again. Excellent job!