![]() Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.įacing the rising sun of our new day begun,įelt in the days when hope unborn had died Ĭome to the place for which our fathers sighed? Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Phillips/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) Do You Know the Full Song? “Lift Every Voice and Sing” The Library of Congress recognized two recordings of Lift Every Voice and Sing on the 2016 National Recording Registry: a 1923 rendition by the Manhattan Harmony Four (one of the last discs issued by the short-lived, Black-owned, and Harlem-based Black Swan Company), and a 1990 recording of Lift Every Voice and Sing performed by.
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