“We Shall Overcome”

“We are here because of people who faced outrageous obstacles and still banded together and said 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.