“We Shall Overcome”

He and other surrounding Democrats began singing the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome," but the session devolved into a screaming match after Johnson finished the reading, according to ABC News.

I marveled at the time that the ghost of Pete Seeger, who had turned a couple of traditional gospel songs into the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome,” didn’t rise from the grave and impale Corker on a lightning bolt.

“Well, you give us a mountaintop, you give us a promised land, you give us a dream and a faith that we shall overcome, can overcome,” he said, echoing words once spoken by the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In the last 10 months, the venerable folk singer-songwriter Joan Baez has released a book of drawings, addressed the United Nations in Geneva and sang “We Shall Overcome” with state Rep. Justin Jones, a member of the so-called Tennessee Three, at the airport in Nashville.

A committed activist, Baez marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and famously performed “We Shall Overcome” at the 1963 March on Washington.