Thank the good Lord for a job.

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

May the Lord bless you real good.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.