<P> Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne . Yet that scaffold sways the future, And behind the then unknown Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own . </P> <P> With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope . With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood . With this faith, we will be able to speed up the day . And in the words of prophecy, every valley shall be exalted . And every mountain and hill shall be made low . The rough places will be made plain and the crooked places straight . And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together . This will be a great day . This will be a marvelous hour . And at that moment--figuratively speaking in biblical words--the morning stars will sing together and the sons of God will shout for joy </P> <P> "We Shall Overcome" was sung days later by over fifty thousand attendees at Dr. King's funeral . </P> <P> Farmworkers in the United States later sang the song in Spanish during strikes and grape boycotts of the late 1960s . The song was notably sung by the U.S. Senator for New York Robert F. Kennedy, when he led anti-apartheid crowds in choruses from the rooftop of his car while touring South Africa in 1966 . It was also the song Abie Nathan chose to broadcast as the Voice of Peace on October 1, 1993, and as a result it found its way back to South Africa in the later years of the anti-apartheid movement . </P>

We shall overcome we shall overcome someday song