Lift Every Voice And Sing
- Words:
- James Weldon Johnson (1921)
- Music:
- J. Rosamond Johnson (1921)
Sheet music
- 1Lift 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.
- 2Sing 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.
- 3Stony 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 people sighed.
- 4We have come over a way that with tears has been watered;We have come, treading our path thru the blood of the slaughtered;Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the bright gleam of our bright star is cast.
- 5God of our weary years,God of our silent tears,God who have brought us thus far on the way;God, who have by your might, led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray.
- 6Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met You,Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget You;Shadowed beneath Your hand, may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1900, the words are in 57 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.