James Weldon Johnson - Lift Every Voice And Sing lyrics

Lift every voice and sing<br />

Till earth and<br />

Heaven ring<br />

Ring with the harmonies of<br />

Liberty; <br />

Let our rejoicing rise, <br />

High as<br />

The list'ning skies, let it resound loud as the<br />

Rolling sea<br />

Sing a song full of faith that the<br />

Dark past has tought us, <br />

Sing a song full of<br />

The hope that the present has brought<br />

Us; <br />

Facing the rising sun of our new day<br />

Begun, <br />

Let us march on till victory is<br />

Won.<br />

<br />

Stony the road we trod, <br />

Bitter the<br />

Chast'ning rod, <br />

Felt in the day that hope<br />

Unborn had died; <br />

Yet with a steady<br />

Beat, <br />

Have not our weary feet, <br />

Come to the<br />

Place on witch our fathers sighed?<br />

We have<br />

Come over a way that with tears has been<br />

Watered, <br />

We have come, treading our path<br />

Through the blood of the slaughtered, <br />

Out from<br />

The gloomy past, till now we stand at<br />

Last<br />

Where the white gleam of our star is<br />

Cast.<br />

<br />

God of our weary years, <br />

God of<br />

Our silent tears, <br />

Thou who has brought us thus<br />

Far on the way; <br />

Thou who has by thy<br />

Might, <br />

Led us into the light, <br />

Keep us<br />

Forever in the path, we pray<br />

Lest our feet<br />

Stray frm the places, our God, where we met<br />

Thee, <br />

Least our hearts, drunk with the wine of<br />

The world, we forget thee, <br />

Shadowed beneath the<br />

Hand, <br />

May we forever stand, <br />

Tru to our<br />

God, <br />

Tru to our native land