Civil Rights Songs



Songbook from the Poor People's Campaign


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


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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

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