United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America

Brian Stokes Mitchell - "Make Them Hear You"
Two-time Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell joins the American Pops Orchestra to sing "Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime.
TRANSCRIPT
ANNOUNCER: Please welcome Broadway's leading man and
two-time Tony Award-winner, Brian Stokes Mitchell.
("Make Them Hear You").
♪ MITCHELL: Go out and tell our story. ♪
♪ Let it echo far and wide.
♪ Make them hear you,
♪ make them hear you.
♪ How justice was our battle,
♪ and how justice was denied.
♪ Make them hear you, make them hear you. ♪
♪ And say to those who blame us ♪
♪ for the way we chose to fight. ♪
♪ That sometimes there are battles ♪
♪ that are more than black or white. ♪
♪ And I could not put down my sword ♪
♪ when justice was my right.
♪ Make them hear you.
♪ Go out and tell our story.
♪ To your daughters and your sons. ♪
♪ Make them hear you,
♪ make them hear you.
♪ And tell them,
♪ "In our struggle, we were not the only ones." ♪
♪ Make them hear you,
♪ make them hear you.
♪ Your sword can be a sermon
♪ or the power of the pen.
♪ Teach ev'ery child to raise
♪ his voice and then my brothers, then. ♪
♪ Will justice be demanded by
♪ ten million righteous men.
♪ Make them hear you. ♪
♪ When they hear you.
♪ I'll be near you again.
♪ BACKUP VOCALS: Make them hear you. ♪
♪ Make them hear you. ♪
♪ Make them hear you.
(applause)