Lyrics added to "We Shall Overcome" by Seeger in the late 1940s, whose musical arrangement and renditions helped popularize the song among civil-rights activists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also changed the primary lines from from "We Will Overcome" to "We Shall Overcome".
“Thus hand in hand through life we'll go;
Its checker'd paths of joy and woe
With cautious steps we'll tread”
The Fireside, Stanza 31, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 344.
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