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Outside of the labor movement Tindley's hymn was simplified, and performances began to resemble another folk-based spiritual, " I'll Be All Right ", of which many versions exist.
Tindley's original refrain, " If in my heart, I do not yield ", was simplified to " Deep in my heart, I do believe ", and additional improvised verses were added.
According to David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, by 1945 the words and the tune had come together in a song still called by Tindley's title, " I'll Overcome Some Day ", with additional words by Atron Twigg and a revised musical arrangement by Chicago composer, arranger, and publisher, Kenneth Morris.
Legendary gospel singer, pianist, and composer, Roberta Martin, also based in Chicago, composed another version of " I'll Overcome ", the last 12 bars of which are the same as the current version of ' We Shall Overcome.
'" Thus by the end of 1945 several versions of " I Will Overcome " were current as a gospel song, while on the South Carolina picket line, Lucille Simmons and other striking tobacco workers were singing a slow version of the song as, " We Will Overcome ".

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