We For One Another
Peggy Seeger / Traditional Arrangement The Black Family
Come pledge again your heart and hand
One grasp that ne’er will sever
Our password be our native land
Our motto “Love Forever”
Chorus
Let the orange lily be
Your badge, my sister and my brother
It’s the everlasting green for me
And we for one another
Behold how green the gallant stem
On which the flower is blooming
How in one heavenly beam and breeze
Both flower and stem are growing
Chorus
The same good soil sustaining both
Makes both united flourish
Yet cannot give the orange growth
And cease the green to nourish
Chorus
The more the hand that plucks that flower
Will vainly strive to cherish
But in that hour the stem blooms on
The flower it begins to perish
Chorus
Regard them then of equal worth
While last their genial weather
The time is at hand when deep in earth
Our roots will sink together
Chorus
Even though it be in our country’s cause
Our party feelings blended
‘Til lasting peace from equal laws
On both will have descended.
Chorus
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Albums
Our Time Together
2004
Versions
original version