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 Our native land
@@Unaakite21 as a Black American I do not know any of us who would want our anthem to replace the national anthem. Like you said t's ours just like Juneteenth was.
Because they were trying to teach you something. I had to learn it early 1970s in school. My older sister in late 1960s at a different school. I remember becase I started there.
Stupid song, way too long, and disrespects this country and its citizens. There is only one nation, the USA. Therefore there can only be one national anthem. If anybody doesn't like that, go start your own nation somewhere else and then you can have any song you want as a national anthem.
Star-Spangled Banner is also long if you sing all the verses. Maybe if you had been enslaved by a country and treated like a second-class citizen even when freed, you might feel differently about singing a song exalting that country's flag. Maybe if you had fought on behalf of that country, under that flag, in every war since 1865, but still not be able to vote, you might feel differently. Maybe if you could shop in a store without being followed by security in that country, you might feel differently. Your comment displays a lack of empathy. Maybe you could read about the history of this song and other amazing music brought into the world by African American, black American musicians, the music you probably enjoy today, and try to think differently about it. I hope so. That is one of things music is for--to bring light to the darkness of hearts and minds for both the musician and the listener. I wish you well on your journey.
Ah... to be ignorant and blind! I'm ecstatic Trump will be thrown out of the White House in a few weeks. Now only if he and his kind we're thrown into a library!
Peter Collins did this so much justice. What a beautiful song. Lyrics are amazing.
YES BROTHERS AND SISTERS! SING!!!!!!
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
Our native land
A song that should be played more.
It will be now, smh lol
It may be if legislators vote this to sign with the National Anthem. That will be glorious.
i will do my part
I dream of the day that the so-called Star-Spangled Banner is REPLACED with This moving song as our nation's National Hymn!
But this song is a song for African americans. It'd be weird if a song for only 13.1% of americans was used for the entire country
@@Unaakite21 as a Black American I do not know any of us who would want our anthem to replace the national anthem. Like you said t's ours just like Juneteenth was.
Beautiful. Here because of the heroic Maya Angelou
Dam this was hard to find. Every time I searched for the song I found 15 different singers none of them the original.
I was searching for a recording from before 1910.
@@jacintoguevara2692 did you find it?
Lovely!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
1 verse 0:07
2 verse 1:07
3 verse 3:07
i need to learn this or my dad will throw a fit lol
Ah yes, the classics
That woman just screwed it up at The Super Bowl
pov ur here bc of a test
Yup
😩 here because we have to sing it
@@bloodymoon7315 oof good luck
Why is school making me listen to this
Same
To teach you history - duh!
@@marilynhawkins1995 Absolutely
Because they were trying to teach you something. I had to learn it early 1970s in school. My older sister in late 1960s
at a different school. I remember becase I started there.
This is the version: ruclips.net/video/cwWhu8tw4nU/видео.html
Still no one knows who’s singing this song.
This doesn’t sound like 500 school children singing. It’s sound like a bunch of chubby opera women belting out the song.
Another idiot - it was sung in 1900 - duh!
lol
This song sounds British not America.
Know your history - it was the sound of the time.
It’s American and written by an African American !!
THIEVES!!!!!
Gay.
Stupid song, way too long, and disrespects this country and its citizens. There is only one nation, the USA. Therefore there can only be one national anthem. If anybody doesn't like that, go start your own nation somewhere else and then you can have any song you want as a national anthem.
Star-Spangled Banner is also long if you sing all the verses. Maybe if you had been enslaved by a country and treated like a second-class citizen even when freed, you might feel differently about singing a song exalting that country's flag. Maybe if you had fought on behalf of that country, under that flag, in every war since 1865, but still not be able to vote, you might feel differently. Maybe if you could shop in a store without being followed by security in that country, you might feel differently. Your comment displays a lack of empathy. Maybe you could read about the history of this song and other amazing music brought into the world by African American, black American musicians, the music you probably enjoy today, and try to think differently about it. I hope so. That is one of things music is for--to bring light to the darkness of hearts and minds for both the musician and the listener. I wish you well on your journey.
Biden 2020
@@melvin46962 You can't enlighten self righteous ignorance
Ah... to be ignorant and blind! I'm ecstatic Trump will be thrown out of the White House in a few weeks. Now only if he and his kind we're thrown into a library!
Trumpster^^