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LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING

First Line:

Lift ev'ry voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring

Songbook: Chalice Hymnal

Page Number: 631

Song Key: G

Language: English

Authors: James Weldon Johnson

Tune Name: LEFT EVERY VOICE

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Verse 1

Lift ev'ry 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

Verse 2

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

Verse 3

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

Composer: J. Rosamond Johnson

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