We Shall Overcome

Pete Seeger * Track #9 On Broadsides: Songs and Ballads

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Album Broadsides: Songs and Ballads

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Pete Seeger

1964

We Shall Overcome by Pete Seeger

Performed by

Pete Seeger

Produced by

Moses Asch

Writed by

Zilphia Horton & Frank Hamilton (Folk) & Guy Carawan & Pete Seeger

About

One of the best known songs of the civil rights movement, “We Shall Overcome” is a gospel song which became a protest song. It is most commonly thought to be lyrically descended (though not directly taken) from “I’ll Overcome Some Day”, a hymn by Charles Albert Tindley that was first published in 19...

We Shall Overcome Lyrics

[Verse 1]
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day

[Refrain]
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day

[Verse 2]
We'll walk hand in hand
We'll walk hand in hand
We'll walk hand in hand some day

[Refrain]
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day

[Verse 3]
We shall live in peace
We shall live in peace
We shall live in peace some day

[Refrain]
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day

[Verse 4]
We shall all be free
We shall all be free
We shall all be free some day

[Refrain]
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day

[Verse 5]
We are not afraid
We are not afraid
We are not afraid today

[Refrain]
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day

[Verse 1]
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day

[Refrain]
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day

We Shall Overcome Q&A

Who wrote We Shall Overcome's ?

We Shall Overcome was written by Zilphia Horton & Frank Hamilton (Folk) & Guy Carawan & Pete Seeger.