The book also reveals that Shropshire's song was COPYRIGHTED in 1954-leaving no doubt that her sacred hymn was the original inspiration for We Shall Overcome-not Charles Albert Tindley's " I'll Overcome " as has been alleged for over 52 years.

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.

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.

Tindley's " I'll Overcome Someday " thus provides the structure for " We Shall Overcome ", with both text and melody having undergone a process of alteration.

Tindley's importance, however, was primarily as a lyricist and poet whose words spoke directly to the feelings of his audiences, many of whom had been freed from slavery only thirty-six years before he first published his songs, and who were often impoverished, illiterate, and newly arrived in the North.

Tindley's songs were written in an idiom rooted in African American folk traditions, using pentatonic intervals, with ample space allowed for improvised interpolation, the addition of " blue " thirds and sevenths, and frequently featuring short refrains in which the congregation could join.

'" Whether this refers to Tindley's 1902 gospel song cannot be determined, since the lyrics and tune have not come down to us.

Tindley's earliest musical experience likely included tarrying services, a musical tradition of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, wherein Christian worshipers prayed and sang throughout the night.

In its modern rendering, the official text of the anthem incorporates only the first stanza and refrain of the original poem.

The official text of the national anthem corresponds to the first stanza and amended refrain of the original nine-stanza poem by Naftali Herz Imber.

The oldest versions of " The Elfin Knight " ( circa 1650 ) contain the refrain " my plaid away, my plaid away, the wind shall not blow my plaid away " ( or variations thereof ), which may reflect the original emphasis on the lady's chastity.

" Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme " may simply be an alternate rhyming refrain to the original.

The original French refrain of the song is C ' est la lutte finale / Groupons-nous et demain / L ' Internationale / Sera le genre humain.

In the original announcements, a distinctive refrain of flute music ( John Cacavas ' Flute Poem ) opens the ad, and is accompanied by the low-key style of the narrator, John Livingston, describing the animal over footage of it taken in the wild.

The original song's refrain was " Denn heute, da hört uns Deutschland und morgen die ganze Welt " ( for today, Germany hears us and tomorrow, the whole world ).

Meaning that neither those who drive nor decide to refrain completely from driving have any revelancy to the original committee's decision, which in effect just allowed the doing whatever the individual member of the movement wanted to do based on everything but the Committee itself.

Around 1990, the title refrain and hook ( either whistled as in the original, or vocalised as ' da-dum, da-da da-da da-dum ') began to gain currency as a football chant.

All three stanzas ( not including the refrain ) in the original lyrics have references to Joseph Stalin, a native Georgian and leader of the Soviet Union at that time.

Seeger recorded a version of the song with his noted folk group The Weavers in 1952, retitling it " Wimoweh " ( an inaccurate transliteration of the song's original Zulu refrain, " uyimbube ").

The original lyrics of the song's first verse and refrain are as follows:

She also added an original gender reference, i. e. “ With eyes as black as coal he looks down in my soul .” ( The original lyric is “ with eyes as black as coal that look down in my soul .”) The live version also substitutes “ rare rose up ” for “ red rose up ” in the second refrain.

* In general arrangement, especially by the addition of a refrain when there was none in the original.

Cramer also restored the original scheme for the ballet's finale, in which the dancers, singing along with the music, shout out the refrain Il n ' est qu ' un pas du mal au bien (" There is Only One Step from Bad to Good ").

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

If all four players pass in the first round, the deal is not played ; in rubber bridge the deal is not scored and the hand is redealt by the original dealer, while in duplicate the score is recorded as zero for each pair and returned to the board.

If you admired a necklace worn by Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, you could buy a copy from Joseff of Hollywood, who made the original.

If preserving the original quality of the stream is more important than eliminating the correspondingly larger data sizes, lossless codecs are preferred.

If later characters are stereotypes, it's because they are from the same original mould.

If the original penalty yardage would have resulted in a first down or moving the ball past the goal line, a first down is awarded.

To make a figure larger or smaller is equivalent to multiplying the Cartesian coordinates of every point by the same positive number m. If ( x, y ) are the coordinates of a point on the original figure, the corresponding point on the scaled figure has coordinates

If the earlier completion procedure is applied to a normed vector space, the result is a Banach space containing the original space as a dense subspace, and if it is applied to an inner product space, the result is a Hilbert space containing the original space as a dense subspace.

If Wisda's Landscaping breaks the contract, and Neal Townsend is forced to hire another service for $ 60 an hour, expectation ( direct ) damages paid to Neal Townsend would equal $ 100 ($ 10 an hour, the difference in price between the original contract and the new contract ).

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

If the polar reciprocal of the canonical form in the sphere is congruent to the original, then the figure is self-dual.

If an aftershock is larger than the main shock, the aftershock is redesignated as the main shock and the original main shock is redesignated as a foreshock.

If this triangulated graph is colorable using four colors or less, so is the original graph since the same coloring is valid if edges are removed.

If we study the Four Noble Truths with the help of these references and explanations, we get a fairly good and accurate account of the essential teachings of the Buddha according to the original texts.

If, supposing it turns out that the original Ship of Theseus, S1, was actually stolen property, and the rightful owner demands its return, should the police give him S2 or S3?

If a compression scheme is lossless — that is, you can always recover the entire original message by uncompressing — then a compressed message has the same quantity of information as the original, but communicated in fewer bits.

If any other person has put in the eye and eyebrow of a face, I can perceive whose work the original face is, and who has painted the eye and eyebrow.

If Joe answers Jim, saying " That may be true for you, but it is not true for me ," he has given an answer which is fallacious as well as being somewhat meaningless in the context of Jim's original statement.

It features the band members ' favorite original songs plus three new tracks, " If I Die Tomorrow ", " Sick Love Song " ( co-written by Sixx and James Michael ), and a cover of The Rolling Stones ' classic " Street Fighting Man ".