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My Purchased Files| Text: | We Shall Overcome |
| Tune: | MARTIN |
| Harmonizer: | J. Jefferson Cleveland |
476. We Shall Overcome
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | We shall overcome, we shall overcome |
| Title: | We Shall Overcome |
| Meter: | Irr. |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1998 |
| Topic: | Freedom and Liberation; Human Experience: New Beginnings; Justice (1 more...) |
| Source: | United States traditional |
| Notes: | 2. We'll walk hand in hand. 3. We are not afraid...today. 4. God will see us through. 5. Truth shall make us free. 6. We shall live in peace |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | MARTIN |
| Harmonizer: | J. Jefferson Cleveland (1981) |
| Meter: | Irr. |
| Key: | C Major |
| Source: | United States traditional |
| Copyright: | Harm. © 1981 Abingdon Press, admin. The Copyright Company |
Text Information:
Its true origins uncertain, this song emerged in labor union battles in the 1940's to become the hymn of the USA civil rights movement of the 1960's and 1970's
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