Lift Every Voice and Sing Songtext
von Concordia Publishing House

Lift every voice and sing, ′til 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, 'til 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 parents 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, ′til 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