Lift Every Voice And Sing

Intro
Eb Ab/Eb Eb Eb Eb Bb/Eb


Chorus 
            n.c                                 Bbm/Eb
Lift every voice and sing 'til earth and heaven ring
Eb           Ab   Eb/G Ab      Eb/Bb   Bb
Ring with the har - mo - nies of lib - erty
Bbsus    G  G   C                 Fm   Eb/G   Ab
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies
         Eb/Bb             Bb   Eb
Let it resound loud as the rolling  sea


Verse 
Eb     C               Cm                          Bb Bb
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Eb     Abm              Fm                     Eb/Bb    Bb
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
           Eb     C/E            Fm  Eb/G Ab
Facing the rising sun of our new day be - gun
             Eb/Bb        Bb    B  C# C#/F# F#m B
Let us march on 'til victory is won


Chorus 
           E  D#dim C#m    Cdim      E/B G#/B C#m
God of our weary    years, God of our si--lent tears
         C#   F#m    E/G# A      E/B    B
Thou who has brought us  thus far on the way
B    C#m B/D# D#dim G#  C#m            F#m E    A
Thou who has  by    Thy might led us into  the light
           E/B          B        E   A/E E E/B
Keep us forever in the path, we pray


Verse 
E    B   C#m                                         E/B B
Lest our feet stray from the places our God, where we met Thee
E    G#m  Am                                           E/B C# F#m
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
  B        E     G#/D# C#             F#m  E    A
Shadowed beneath Thy   hand, may we forev - er stand
            E/B               B      E  D C E
True to our God, true to our native land