Lift Every Voice And Sing (Johnson/Johnson 1901)

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1. Lift ev - ry voice and sing, till earth and
2. Sto - ny the road we trod, bit - ter the
3. God of our wea - ry years, God of our

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hea - ven ring. Ring the har - mo - nies of
chast' - ning rod. Felt in the days when hope un -
si - lent tears. Thou who has brought us thus far

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li - ber - ty. Let our re - joy - cing rise, high as the
born - had died. Yet with a stea - dy beat, have not our
on the way. Thou who has by thy night, led us in -

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liste - ning skies. Let it re - sound loud as the rol - ling sea.
wea - ry feet. Come to the place for which our peo - ple sighed?
to the light. Keep us for - ever in the path - we pray.

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Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us.
We have come o - ver a way that with tears has been wa - tered.
Lest our feet stray from the pla - ces our Go, where we met Thee.

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Sing a song full of the hope that the pre - sent has brought us. Fa - cing the
We have come, trea - ding our path thro' the blood of the slaug - tered. Out from the
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we for - get Thee. Sha-dowed be -

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ri - sing sun of our new day be - gun, let us march
gloo - my past, till now we stand at last, where the white
neath Thy hand, may we for - e - ver stand, true to our
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on till vic - to - ry is won.
gleam of our bright star is cast.
God, true to our na - tive land.