When Will We Overcome?
When Will We Overcome?
It had been a good day at the songwriting camp - but nothing quite prepared us for what followed when Quincy, Nabil, and David stepped forward at the Song Share to introduce “When Will We Overcome”. What followed wasn’t just a performance - it was a reckoning.
WHEN WILL WE OVERCOME?
Written by Nabil Ince (BMI), Quincy Cochran (ASCAP), David Gate (PRS)
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VERSE 1
Am Em A/C#
We need a change now, O Lord, can you hear me?
Am Em C
Generations have cried the same song
Am Em A/C#
The same sorrows poured out in melody
C
“We shall overcome”
B7
When will we overcome?
VERSE 2
Am Em A/C#
We need a change now, O Lord, can you hear me?
Am Em C
Too many days have been downcast and long
Am Em A/C#
Restless hearts through the night are still singing
C
“We shall overcome”
B7
When will we overcome?
CHORUS
Em B/D# G/D A/C# Cm B7
Oh, oh, oh, oh oh
BRIDGE
Em
We shall persevere
B/D#
With the prayers of saints
G/D
And the songs we sing
A/C#
Are the seeds of change
C
Your kingdom comes
Am
In the smallest ways
Am/F#
From the suffering
B7
Comes our strongest praise
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