Song


What is the theme song for EOP called? It's not "Keep Your Eyes On The Prize" because that has totally different lyrics. i'm looking for the one that goes

"You know the one thing we did right.

Was the day we started to fight.

Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on, hold on.

Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on."

-- civil rights freedom song

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I think that is the name of the song "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize", but they just play that one verse when it comes on.

Paul and Silas bound in jail
Had no money for to go their bail
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

Chorus after each verse:
Hold on, hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize,
Hold on.

Paul and Silas began to shout
Jail door opened and they walked out
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

Freedom's name is mighty sweet
Soon one day we're gonna meet
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

Got my hand on the gospel plow
Wouldn't take nothin' for my journey now
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

The only chain that we can stand
Is that chain of hand in hand
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

The only thing that we did wrong
Stayed in the wilderness a day too long
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

But the one thing we did right
Was the day we started to fight
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

We're gonna board that big Greyhound
Carryin' love from town to town
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

We're gonna ride for civil rights
We're gonna ride for both black and white
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

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mmm. .. I prefer that other properly vaunted spiritual featured in Eyes on the Prize: Freedom's got a shotgun

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