We Shall Overcome Lyrics

Lyric discussion by kmk_natasha 

Cover art for We Shall Overcome lyrics by Joan Baez

vphi: "We Shall Overcome (G. Carawan, Hamilton, Z. Horton, P. Seeger)- Protest song that became a key anthem of the US civil rights movement. Lyrics derived from Charles Tindley's gospel song "I'll Overcome Some Day" (1900), and opening and closing melody from the 19th-century spiritual "No More Auction Block for Me" (a song that dates to before the Civil War)."

"No More Auction Block for Me" - fits well! It is so wide known in Russia, maybe it will be heard at some barricades when the time will come for democracy and freedom...