Lift Every Voice and Sing

Lift ev'ry voice and sing
 Till earth and heav-en ring,
 Ring with the har-mo-nies of lib-er-ty
 Let our re-joic-ing rise
 High as the lis-t'ning skies
 Let it re-sound loud as the roll-ing sea
 Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
 Sing a song full of the hope that the pres-ent has brought us
 Fac-ing the ris-ing sun
 Of our new day be-gun
 Let us march on till vic-tory is won
 Ston-y the road we trod
 Bit-ter the chas-t'ing rod
 Felt in the days when hope un-born had died
 Yet with a stead-y beat
 Have not our wea-ry feet
 Come to the place for which our fa-ther sighed?
 We have come o-ver a way that with tears has been wa-tered
 We have come
 Tread-ing our path through the blood of the slaugh-tered
 Out from the gloom-y past
 Til now we stand at last
 Where the bright gleam of our bright star is cast
 God of our wea-ry years
 God of our si-lent tears
 Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way
 Thou who hast by Thy might
 Led us in-to the light
 Keep us for ev-er in the path, we pray
 Lest our feet stray from the plac-es our God, where we met Thee
 Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we for-get Thee
 Shad-owed be-neath Thy hand
 May we for ev-er stand
 True to our God, true to our na-tive land (Amen)