LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
also called "The Black National Anthem"
Words by James Weldon Johnson

Music by John R. Johnson

Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring.
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise,
High as the list'ning 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 chast'ning 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 has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has 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.

LEAN ON ME

Artist: Bill Withers

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you don't let show

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me

So just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

USA NATIONAL ANTHEM

Composed by John Stafford Smith 

Lyrics Francis Scott Key 

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, 
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? 
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, 
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? 
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, 
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. 
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Full Text of USA National Anthem

ONE LOVE

By: Bob Marley

One love! one heart!
Let’s get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin’ (one love!);
Hear the children cryin’ (one heart!),
Give thanks and praise to the lord and I will feel all right;
Sayin’: let’s get together and feel all right.

woo woo-woo woo!

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (one love!);
There is one question I’d really love to ask (one heart!):
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner,
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own.

Believe me.

One love!  One heart!
Let’s get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (one love!);
So shall it be in the end (one heart!),
Give thanks and praise to the lord and I will feel all right;

Let’s get together to fight this holy Armageddon (one love!),
So when the man comes there will be no, no doom (one song!).
Have pity on those whose chances grows thinner;
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
 

Sayin’: one love! one heart!
Let’s get together and feel all right.
I’m pleadin’ to mankind! (one love!);
Oh, lord! (one heart) wo-ooh!

Give thanks and praise to the lord and I will feel all right;

Sayin': Let’s get together and feel all right.
Give thanks and praise to the lord and I will feel all right;
Let’s get together and feel all right.

Give thanks and praise to the lord and I will feel all right;
Let’s get together and feel all right.