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Hank Wiiliams wrote this tune in 1947 after his Mother, who was driving him home from a gig, woke him up to tell him “I saw the light” as she drove into Montgomery, Alabama (click here.) Hank took it from there and wrote this song. Full disclosure – all these years I had just assumed that it was some Gospel tune/Negro spiritual. That knowledge-power thing again. Check out this version of it from the Orange is the New Black Season 1 finale: