Lift Every Voice and Sing
Words: James W. Johnson
Tune: John R. Johnson
D G B Em G Cdim Em
1. Lift every voice and sing, till earth and Heav -en ring,
2. Stony the road we trod, bitter the chasten-ing rod,
3. God of our wear -y years, God of our sil - ent tears,
Am B7 C G D7
1. Ring with the har - mo -nies of liber - ty;
2. Felt in the days when hope un -born had died;
3. Thou Who hast brought us thus far on the way;
G Em E E7 Am B7 C
1. Let our re - joic-ing rise, high as the liste-ning skies,
2. Yet with a stea-dy beat, have not our wea- ry feet,
3. Thou Who hast by Thy might, led us in - to the light,
Cdim G D7 G
1. Let it re -sound loud as the rolling sea.
2. Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
3. Keep us for-ever in the path, we pray.
G
1. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
2. We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
3. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee.
Gdim G G7 D7
1. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
2. We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughter-ed;
3. Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee.
G Em E E7 Am B7 C
1. Facing the ris - ing sun of our new day be-gun,
2. Out from the gloo- my past, till now we stand at last
3. Shadowed be- neath Thy hand, may we for- ev - er stand,
Cdim G D7 G
1. Let us march on till victo - ry is won.
2. Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
3. True to our God, true to our native land.
