We shall overcome the whole wide world Anything that blunts or wounds or scars The evil king, the common thief Weapons, chains and names will cease forever For the general, the gentle heart For the oligarch a life of love and service We shall change the way all people think And people will be all that we believe in And all the good and all the gold Every book and story told will set us free And step by step we'll climb the hill We'll scramble to the top until We reach the very place From where we see the sky And everything below is just our world to change We can overcome this raging sea Don't we have the rain the wind the sun for free? The clouds the snow the moon the stars Are nothing if they're not all ours eternally The morning light the sky ablaze The birds song gently shaking us awake And blow by blow and street by street We'll march and chant and sing and sleep To change the rules we cannot keep Which no one else could believe This whole wide world would ever change Except you and me