Talk:We Shall Overcome
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[edit] Guy Carawan attributed as author by Pete Seeger
I edited the page to give a bit more attribution to Guy Carowan. I base this on words I heard myself from Pete Seeger at a People's Music Network event in the 1980s, when he introduced Guy saying something like "...and he wrote a little song that became rather well known..." or something like that. I heard this from Pete's own mouth, though it was twenty years ago and my memory may be a bit distorted. If this is controversial, I can ask some of those still involved with PMN to cross-check what Pete's said.
Russell 15:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This song is popular elsewhere too!
It should probably be noted that this song has spread around so as to have significance outside of any civil rights movements, and even translated to other languages. There seems to be no other way how in India both this song (or probably some variant) and the Hindi version "Hum honge kaamyaab" could be taught to me in the Kindergarten (oh! old memories...) in 1985-86.
Proof: Google:"hum honge kaamyaab", Google:"we shall overcome one day" (the first match [1] as of now is about a Kerala finance minister singing the song)
BTW after all that (I was actually searching google for lyrics before I tried wikipedia) it is surprising to know that the song is not public domain. Is the Hindi variant, etc. illegal (I couldn't find the author of the Hindi variant, though)? Is singing the song (or variants) also illegal? Then should the verses be removed from the article? -- Paddu 25 Dec 2004
- The article explains the copyright situation: Seeger took a "defensive" copyright, to prevent inappropriate commercialization of the song. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:55, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)
The song has also become famous in Czechoslovakia as a protest song against the communist regime (even before the Velvet Revolution), with the name "Jednou budem dál" and Czech text by Spirituál kvintet. - Mike Rosoft 21:49, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Variants
There seem to be many variants of this song, e.g. [2], [3]. How is it verified that the version currently in the article is the original? -- Paddu 25 Dec 2004
[edit] Date
Someone has added this to Category:1903 songs. If you read the article, you will see that associating any particular year with the song is rather arbitrary. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:55, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hindi version
This was recently pasted into the article; I've moved it here. Why is this translation of encyclopedic notability in the English-language Wikipedia? -- Jmabel | Talk 18:00, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
hum honge kamiyaab
hum honge kamiyaab
hum honge kamiyaab ek din
o ho man me hai vishwaas
poora hai vishwaas
hum honge kamiyaab ek din
[edit] Joan Baez
"…the song was associated with Joan Baez…". Really? Particularly? I suspect this was only true of people who either particularly liked Joan Baez's singing style, or (conversely) particularly disliked both her and her politics. I don't think many people actively involved in the civil rights movement ever associated the song with Joan Baez. Is there some citable basis for this statement? -- Jmabel | Talk July 3, 2005 23:53 (UTC)
