Lift Every Voice and Sing

1. Lift Every Voice and Sing Words by James Weldon Johnson Music by J. Rosamond Johnson Words and Music public domain. 351

2. Lift ev’ry voice and singtill earth and heaven ringRing with the harmonies of liberty

3. Let our rejoicing risehigh as the list’ning skiesLet it resound loud as the rolling sea

4. Sing a song full of the faiththat the dark past has taught usSing a song full of the hopethat the present has brought us

5. Facing the rising sunof our new day begunLet us march on till victory is won

6. Stony the road we trodbitter the chast’ning rodFelt in the dayswhen hope unborn had died

7. Yet with a steady beathave not our weary feetCome to the placefor which our fathers sighed

8. We have come over a waythat with tears has been wateredWe have come, treading our paththro’ the blood of the slaughtered

9. Out from the gloomy pasttill now we stand at lastWhere the white gleamof our bright star is cast

10. God of our weary yearsGod of our silent tearsThou who hast brought usthus far on the way

11. Thou who hast by Thy mightled us into the lightKeep us forever in the path,we pray

12. Lest our feet stray from the placesour God, where we met TheeLest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee

13. Shadowed beneath Thy hand may we forever standTrue to our Godtrue to our native land