Li Lyrics - James Weldon Johnson

Lift every voice and sing 

Till earth and 

Heaven ring 

Ring with the harmonies of 

Liberty; 

Let our rejoicing rise, 

High as 

The list'ning 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 day that hope 

Unborn had died; 

Yet with a steady 

Beat, 

Have not our weary feet, 

Come to the 

Place on which our fathers 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 star is 

Cast. 

God of our weary years, 

God of 

Our silent tears, 

Thou who has brought us thus 

Far on the way; 

Thou who has 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, 

Least our hearts, drunk with the wine of 

The world, we forget thee, 

Shadowed beneath the 

Hand, 

May we forever stand, 

Tru to our 

God, 

Tru to our native land