Lift Every Voice
Lift every voice and sing
599
The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal)
Metric Index
66. 10. 66. 10. 14. 66. 10
Modality
Aâ™ Major
15-Pitch Humming Index
*UUUSSSUUDDDSUU
Author
James Weldon Johnson [1871-1938]
Composer
J. Rosamond Johnson [1873-1954]
Copyright
Copyright © 1921 by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Copyright Renewed. International Copyright Secured. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Used by permission.
Copyright © 1921 by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Copyright Renewed. International Copyright Secured. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Used by permission.
Copyright © 1921 by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Copyright Renewed. International Copyright Secured. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Used by permission.
Language
English
Publication Date
1985
Last Five Uses
• Used on Jul 09, 2017 10:00 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Feb 05, 2017 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Sep 18, 2016 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Jan 20, 2013 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Feb 06, 2011 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Feb 05, 2017 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Sep 18, 2016 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Jan 20, 2013 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Feb 06, 2011 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
Poem Words (Three verses)
1.
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.
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 begun,
let us march on, till victory is won.
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.
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 begun,
let us march on, till victory is won.
2.
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 parents sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered;
we have come, treading our 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.
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 parents sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered;
we have come, treading our 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.
3.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
thou who hast by thy might led us into the light;
keep us for ever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
shadowed beneath thy hand
may we for ever stand,
true to our God, true to our native land.
God of our silent tears,
thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
thou who hast by thy might led us into the light;
keep us for ever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
shadowed beneath thy hand
may we for ever stand,
true to our God, true to our native land.
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