The original Ghana National Anthem was in use during the Dr Kwame Nkrumah regime.

The original Ghana National Anthem was in use during the Dr Kwame Nkrumah regime.
It was composed by Mr Pappoe Thompson and Philip Gbeho
The Anthem was written by Mr Pappoe Thompson and the music by Mr Philip Gheho.
Below is the Original National Anthem;

1ST STANZA
Lift high the flag of Ghana,
The ‘gay’ star shining in the sky,
Bright with the souls of our fathers,
Beneath whose shade we’ll live and die!
Red for the blood of the heroes in the fight,
Green for the precious farms of our birth-right,
And linked with these the shining golden band
That marks the richness of our Fatherland.

Emmanuel Pappoe-Thompson

2ND STANZA
We’ll live and die for Ghana,
Our land of hope for ages to come!
Shout it aloud, O Ghana,
And beat it upon the drum!
Come from the palm-lined shore, from the broad northern plain,
From the farm and the forest, the mountain and mine.
Your children sing with ancient minstrel lore:
Freedom for ever, for evermore!

3RD STANZA.
God be with us in Ghana
And make our nation great and strong,
Brave to defend for ever
The cause of freesom and of right.
For ever the flag of Ghana proudly flies
In distant seas or else beneath our skies.
Let peace and fellow-feeling be our might,
And may our name be a radiant light.

Philip Gbeho

4th STANZA
This be our vow, O Ghana,
To live as one, in unity,
And in your strength, O Ghana,
To build a new fraternity!
Africa waits in the night of the clouded years
For the spreading light that now appears
To give us all a place beneath the sun:
The destined ending of a task well done.

Due to difficulty in singing the anthem, the government published the lyrics in the Daily Graphic on Monday, 17th March, 1958.
However, on 1st July 1960, the lyrics was changed after Nkrumah was overthrown to this current lyrics;
“God Bless our Homeland Ghana”

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