James Weldon Johnson has written the Lift Every Voice and Sing Lyrics as a poem in 1900. He was a NAACP Leader. This lyrics often refered to as “The Black National Anthem.” John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) was music composer for the lyrics. He is a brother of James Weldon Johnson. This song is firstly performed in public in Jacksonville, Florida to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday at Stantion School, where James Weldon Johnson was principal.
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Lift Every Voice and Sing Lyrics
Lift every voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast’ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might,
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.
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