<A
HREF="http://www.stceliascorner.com/mlk.html"> MIDI music for Martin
Luther King Day - January 15, 2001</A>
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We Shall Overcome
We shall overcome, we shall overcome
We shall overcome some day
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe
That we shall overcome some day
We'll walk hand in hand, we'll walk hand in hand
We'll walk hand in hand some day
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe
That we shall overcome some day
We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace
We shall live in peace some day
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe
That we shall overcome some day
We shall brothers be, we shall brothers be
We shall brothers be some day
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe
That we shall overcome some day
The truth shall make us free, truth shall make us free
The truth shall make us free some day
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe
That we shall overcome some day
We are not afraid, we are not afraid
We are not afraid today
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe
That we shall overcome some day
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 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.