 This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories. And we tell stories about everything here on this show. And, of course, our favorite subjects are music and history. And when they combine like they do in this story, that's just a twofer. It's often been said that grace, like water, always flows downward to the lowest place. Nobody embodies this principle better than John Newton, author of the best-loved hymn of all time,