Get Up, Stand Up was written by [wiki]Bob Marley[/wiki] and [wiki]Peter Tosh[/wiki]. It originally appeared on The Wailers’ 1973 album Burnin’.
Andy Flinn sing this song on a Gm vamp….
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!
% Preacherman, dont tell me, %
Heaven is under the earth. %
% I know you dont know %
What life is really worth. % Its not
all that glitters is gold %
Alf the story has never been told. So
Now you see % the light % eh!
Stand up for % your rights %. come on!
Chorus
% Most % people think %
Great God will come from the sky %,
% Take away everything % and
Make everybody feel high %
% But if you know what life % is worth %
% You will look for yours on earth: And
Now you see % the light % You
Stand up for % your rights. % jah! %
Chorus
We sick an tired of-a your ism-skism game
Dyin n goin to heaven in-a jesus name, lord.
% We know when we understand %
% Almighty God is a living man % You can
Fool some people sometimes % But you
Can’t fool all the people all the time. So
Now we see % the light % We gonna
Stand up for % our rights!
Chorus