We shall overcome.
Deep in my heart, I do believe,
we shall overcome.

You know, I've joined hands
so often with students and others behind 
jail bars singing it, 
We shall overcome.

Sometimes we've had tears in our eyes 
when we joined together to sing it, 
but we still decided to sing it, 
"We shall overcome." 
Oh, before this victory's won, some will 
have to get thrown in jail some more, 
but we shall overcome. 

Don't worry about us.
Before the victory's won, some of us 
will lose jobs, but we shall overcome.

Before the victory's won,
even some will have to face physical death. 

But if physical death is the price
that some must pay to 
free their children from a 
permanent psychological death, 
then nothing shall be more redemptive. 
We shall overcome. 

Before the victory's won, some
 would be misunderstood and
called bad names and dismissed as 
rabble rousers and 
agitators, but we shall overcome. 

And I tell you why: 
We shall overcome because the arc of the 
moral universe is long but 
it bends toward justice. 
We shall overcome because 
Carlisle is right, "No lie can live forever.

We shall overcome because 
William Cullen Bryant is right: 
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again." 

We shall overcome because 
James Russell Lowell is right: 
Truth forever on the scaffold, 
wrong forever on the thrown, 

We shall overcome because the Bible is right: 
You shall reap what you sow. We shall overcome. 
Deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome. 

Deep in my heart I do believe we shal overcome

Deep in my heart I do believe we shal overcome