# Identify this college radio song from too few clues

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**Created:** [August 9, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-college-radio-song-from-too-few-clues/505798 "2009-08-09T02:31:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-college-radio-song-from-too-few-clues/505798/1 "2009-08-09T02:31:53Z")

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I was listening while driving, so I was unable to pay close enough attention.

1. While the song was playing, I commented to my wife ‘this guy sounds like Kurt Elling’; my wife thought Frank Sinatra. Smooth, not shouting, crooning.
2. Kinda downtempo, moody music, maybe like U2’s Beautiful Ghost?
3. Lyric - this is what struck me, but apparently I’m not remembering it correctly - included something along the lines of ‘this is the world that courage has made’ and a refrain of ‘blessed is the man who has none’ or ‘God bless the man who has none’.

Naturally, a Google search for these phrases hasn’t returned anything, and the radio station’s playlist is of no help; there’s a two hour gap in the songlist that overlaps my song. This is otherwise a typical college radio station with a pretty eclectic setlist; no help there I’m afraid.

Anyone have an inkling?

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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-college-radio-song-from-too-few-clues/505798/2 "2009-08-09T05:03:25Z")

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Dead Can Dance, “[How Fortunate The Man With None](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9vFE1ivVQ0)”?

I’d bet this is it - the singer sounds like Kurt Elling to me as well.

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**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-college-radio-song-from-too-few-clues/505798/3 "2009-08-09T13:16:33Z")

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That’s the one!  
Thanks so much, **It’s Not Rocket Surgery!**  
With the misremembered lyric, I never would have found this without your help.