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About
the Play
A salute to the Black and White students who dared to challenge
the social institutions, policies, and systems of the 60's and to
Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Dennis Brutus of South Africa and
other Apartheid fighters who dared to challenge one of the major
social evils of the 80's.
LIFT
EVERY VOICE AND SING
Lift every voice
and sing, till earth and heaven ring.
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high s the listening 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 chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with as steady beat, have not our weary feet;
Come to the place for which our father's 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 it cast.
True to our God, True to our native land.
God of our weary
years, God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by the might, let us into the light;
Keep us forever in the path, we pray;
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where
Let 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.
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