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    Lift Every Voice and Sing is a song about hope, faith, and perseverance through struggle. It describes the difficult road African Americans have traveled from slavery to freedom, facing oppression but marching steadfastly toward victory. It asks God to keep guiding people on the righteous path and to remain faithful to their homeland.

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    Lift Every Voice and Sing is a song about hope, faith, and perseverance through struggle. It describes the difficult road African Americans have traveled from slavery to freedom, facing oppression but marching steadfastly toward victory. It asks God to keep guiding people on the righteous path and to remain faithful to their homeland.

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    The lyrics to african american national anthem.

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    Lift Every Voice and Sing is a song about hope, faith, and perseverance through struggle. It describes the difficult road African Americans have traveled from slavery to freedom, facing oppression but marching steadfastly toward victory. It asks God to keep guiding people on the righteous path and to remain faithful to their homeland.

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    Lift Every Voice and Sing is a song about hope, faith, and perseverance through struggle. It describes the difficult road African Americans have traveled from slavery to freedom, facing oppression but marching steadfastly toward victory. It asks God to keep guiding people on the righteous path and to remain faithful to their homeland.

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    LYRICS

    Lift Every Voice and Sing


    By 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 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 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 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 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,
    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.

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