Like many other performers, Merle Haggard knew loneliness. In fact, he made the decision to dedicate his life to music as Prisoner 845200 in San Quentin prison, during a stay in solitary confinement with only pajama bottoms, a blanket, a stone floor, and a Bible. This is a surpassingly soulful rendition of a gospel classic that Haggard included in a religious album he recorded in memory of his mother in 1981.