African Cry

Took our whole black African tribe

Whipped our backs and enslaved our minds

Took away our shield and spear

Shipped and shackled, chained and feared

Took away our native tongue

Taught their English to our young

All the black people

African cry

Just wanted to live

So many have died

Took our whole African nation

Took us South to a plantation

Made us work both day and night

With no freedom and no rights

All the black people

African cry

Just wanted to live

So many have died

Though they think our ways are done

(I have lived from one slave hut to another)

But someday, we'll overcome

(Sold as a child away from my mother)

Though they think our ways are done

(Through blood, sweat, and tears, it's still apart of me)

But someday, we'll overcome

(Oh, we'll overcome, yeah)

Overcome, overcome, overcome, overcome

Right on