Civil Rights Songs

Songbook from the Poor People's Campaign

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/arts-culture/we-rise-a-movement-songbook/

We Rise: A Movement Songbook draws on a rich history of social movement music, both old and new. From Spirituals to Labor songs, from Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement to the music rising up from our struggles today, this compilation of movement music is meant to give people ways to join. To remember.  To affirm. To honor. To rage. To celebrate. To practice new ways of being in relationship with one another and the earth. To envision and create a world that is just and habitable for future generations.

We offer this songbook as a gift to the movement in hopes that the practice of raising our voices together will enable us to honor our pasts, learn from one another, and begin to envision a just society where Everybody and Being has a Right to Live.

                                          

Lift Every Voice and Sing America America the Beautiful US Civil Rights Dr. King Free at Last Keep Your Eyes on the Prize Night Blooming Jasmine Oh Freedom!/Come and Go With Me Open the Window Wade/Motherless/Die Easy We Shall Overcome Woke Up This Morning

Farm Workers' Rights De Colores This Land is Your Land Anti-Apartheid Shumayela Singahambabayo Others: Finlandia Ode to Peace Hine Ma Tov

back-burner songs Blackbird Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burnin' Saints/Swing Low/This Train Have Some Love

Download Civil and Human Rights Song Lyrics HERE


Check out the Rise Up Movement Songbook from the Poor People's Campaign

• CCHR Practice videos

Open the window, children

Open the window, now

Open the window children

Open the window, let the dove fly in

1)Mama and Papa are fighting like snakes

2) Baby is a-cryin' like her heart will break

3) Neighbors lock their doors build fences so high

4) Don't see what's to discover on the other side

5) There's borders 'round the countries, borders 'round the skies

6) The only border close you in is the border 'round your mind!

7) Some people have money some people have none

8) What use is having money if your heart's gone numb?

9)This big old world's in a great big mess

ALL) Let's open the window, find peace and rest

Shumayela