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Lift Every Voice And Sing by James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson
Lift Every Voice And Sing
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
Eb7 Ab C7/G F F7 Bbm C7 Db Ddim7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab
[Verse 1]
Eb7 Ab C7/G Fm
Lift every voice and sing
Ab/Eb Eb7 Fm
Till earth and heaven ring
Bbm C7 Db Ab/Eb Eb7
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Ab C7/G F
Let our rejoicing rise
F7 Bbm C7 Db Dbdim7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab Eb Ab
High as the list'ning skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Ab Eb7 Fm Ab Eb7
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Ab E Ab Eb7
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Ab C7/G F F7 Bbm C7 Db
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Dbdim7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab
Let us march on till victory is won
[Verse 2]
Eb7 Ab C7/G Fm
Stony the road we trod
Ab/Eb Eb Fm
Bitter the chastening rod
Bbm C7 Db Ab/Eb Eb7
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Ab C7/G F
Yet with a steady beat
F7 Bbm C7 Db Dbdim7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab Eb Ab
Have not our weary feet, Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
Ab Eb7 Fm Ab Eb7
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
Ab E Ab Eb7
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Ab C7/G F F7 Bbm C7 Db
Out from the gloomy past 'Til now we stand at last
Dbdim7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
[Verse 3]
Eb7 Ab C7/G Fm
God of our weary years
Ab/Eb Eb7 Fm
God of our silent tears
Bbm C7 Db Ab/Eb Eb7
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Ab C7/G F
Thou who has by Thy might
F7 Bbm C7 Db Dbdim7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab Eb Ab
Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Ab Eb7 Fm Ab Eb7
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Ab E Ab Eb7
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Ab C7/G F F7 Bbm C7 Db
Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand
Dbdim7 Ab/Eb Eb7 Ab Eb Ab
True to our God, True to our native land
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