Lift Every Voice and Sing - CCS 555 - The Beyond the Walls Choir (2021)

Details
Title | Lift Every Voice and Sing - CCS 555 - The Beyond the Walls Choir (2021) |
Author | Centre Place |
Duration | 4:03 |
File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=KR9XXJ24rig |
Description
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.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chast’ning 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 people sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has 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.
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 forever 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 forever stand,
true to our God, true to our native land.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
LIFT EVERY VOICE
Words: James Weldon Johnson, 1871–1938, alt.
Music: J. Rosamond Johnson, 1873–1954
Words and Music in the Public Domain.
Performed by the Beyond the Walls Choir
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
All Community of Christ Congregations have permission to use this recording in their in-person and online worship services.