Superabimus
by T Polyphilus

Tune: "We Shall Overcome"

We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day

Chorus:
Oh deep in my heart
I will it so
That we shall overcome some day

We shall each be free
etc., repeat chorus

We shall burn with love
etc., repeat chorus

We shall live and die
etc., repeat chorus

We shall see the light
etc., repeat chorus

We shall go beyond
etc., repeat chorus

We shall all return
etc., repeat chorus

Superabimus
Superabimus
Superabimus olim

In corde me
Volo et sic
Ut superabimus olim

Mildly rewritten for Thelemic sensibilities by Dionysos Thriambos, on the basis of the perennial protest anthem first sung by striking tobacco workers circa 1945, deriving from the earlier gospel songs "I'll Overcome Some Day" (1900) by Charles Tindley, and "No More Auction Block for Me" (a spiritual that dates to before the Civil War).

"Every conquest, every pleasurable feeling, everything that happens presupposes a resistance overcome." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The road winds uphill: all law, all nature must be overcome." --Aleister Crowley