{"id":9860,"date":"2025-06-01T05:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2025-06-19T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:33:08","slug":"we-shall-not-be-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9860","title":{"rendered":"We Shall Not Be Moved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/WSNBM.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/WSNBM.m4a\"><br \/>\nWe Shall Not Be Moved &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<p>We Shall Not Be Moved is a lovely spiritual from the Southern churches in the 1800&#8217;s. It was extremely hard to find the original lyrics because for years it had been rewritten as a union song. The text is based on biblical scripture:<\/p>\n<p>Happy Juneteenth!!!<\/p>\n<p>Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aJeremiah 17:7\u20138<br \/>\nAnd he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aPsalm 1:3<br \/>\nHe only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200aPsalm 62:6 <\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\n[G] We shall we shall [D] we shall not be moved<br \/>\nWe shall we shall [G] we shall not be moved<br \/>\nJust like a [C] tree that\u2019s planted by the [G] water,<br \/>\nWe shall [D] not be [G] moved.<\/p>\n<p>[G] Jesus keeps forever,<br \/>\n[D] We shall not be moved;<br \/>\nHe forsakes, no, never,<br \/>\n[G] We shall not be moved;<br \/>\nJust like a [C] tree that\u2019s planted by the [G] water,<br \/>\nWe shall [D] not be [G] moved.<\/p>\n<p>On His strength depending,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved;<br \/>\nAnd His way defending,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved;<br \/>\nJust like a tree that\u2019s planted by the water,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved.<br \/>\n[Refrain]<\/p>\n<p>His, the love enfolding,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved;<br \/>\nHis, the grace upholding,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved;<br \/>\nJust like a tree that\u2019s planted by the water,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved. <\/p>\n<p>Friend so high and holy,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved;<br \/>\nSavior meek and lowly,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved;<br \/>\nJust like a tree that\u2019s planted by the water,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved.<br \/>\n [Refrain]<\/p>\n<p>From the Bible story<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved;<br \/>\nLiving for His glory,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved;<br \/>\nJust like a tree that\u2019s planted by the water,<br \/>\nWe shall not be moved.<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain] X 3\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: We Shall Not Be Moved &#8211; Click To Play We Shall Not Be Moved is a lovely spiritual from the Southern churches in the 1800&#8217;s. It was extremely hard to find the original lyrics because for years it had been rewritten as a union song. The text is based on biblical scripture: Happy Juneteenth!!! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Shall Not Be Moved&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9881,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions\/9881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}