Lift Every Voice and Sing

Sister Kim Weston

The Black National Anthem

Lift every voice and sing

'Til Earth and Heaven ring

Ring with the harmonies of liberty

Let our rejoicing rise

High as the listening skies

Let it resound loud as the rolling sea

Won't you sing it with me?

Everybody

Sing a song full of 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 chastening rod

Felt in the days we've hoped

When unborn had died

Yet with a steady beat

Have not our weary feet

Come to the place

On which our fathers sighed, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

Let us march on till victory is won

Let us march on till victory is won, yeah

Let us march on till victory is won

Whoa, yeah