Lift Every Voice And Sing (Negro National Anthem) Lyrics

Lift every voice and sing

Till earth and heaven ring

Ring with the harmonies of liberty

Let our rejoicing rise

High as the listening skies

Let it resound loud as the rolling sea

Stony the road we trod

Bitter the chastening 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 fathers sighed

We have come over a way that with tears have been watered

We have come, treading a path through the blood of the slaughtered

Out from the gloomy past

Till now we stand at last

Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast

God of our weary years

God of our silent tears

Thou who has brought us this far long on the way

Thou who has by thy might

Led us into the light

Keep us forever in the path, we pray

Sing 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, new day begun

Let us march on till victory is won, it's won, is won.