[Intro] [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : don [Cm] 't give up the fight! [Gm]
[Verse] [Cm] Preacher man, don't tell [Gm] me, [Cm] Heaven is under the eart [Gm] h. [Cm] I know you don't kn [Gm] ow [Cm] What life is really wo [Gm] rth. [Cm] It's not all that glitters i [Gm] s gold; [Cm] Half the story has n [Gm] ever been told: [Cm] So now you see the lig [Gm] ht, eh! [Cm] Stand up for your rights. [Gm] come on!
[Chorus] [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : don [Cm] 't give up the fight! [Gm]
[Verse] [Cm] Most people think, [Gm] [Cm] Great god will come from [Gm] the skies, [Cm] Take away everythin [Gm] g [Cm] And make everybody fee [Gm] l high. [Cm] But if you know what life is [Gm] worth, [Cm] You will look for yo [Gm] urs on earth: [Cm] And now you see the li [Gm] ght, [Cm] You stand up for your righ [Gm] ts. jah!
[Chorus] [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : don [Cm] 't give up the fight! [Gm]
[Verse- repeat Cm and Gm] 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 (what you gonna do?), We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah! )
[Chorus] So you better [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : sta [Cm] nd up for your rights [Gm] ! [Cm] Get up, stand up [Gm] : don [Cm] 't give up the fight! [Gm] [Repeat until end]
[Intro - Capo 3 for original key but don't bother] [Ignore - straight to Verse 1] [F][C][Dm][C] [Bb][C][F] (Hold last F for a whole bar)
[Verse 1 - No drums] [Gm] When are you gonna come down [C] [F] When are you going to land [Bb] I [Gm] should have stayed on the [C] farm, should have [F] Listened to my old man [F] .. You [Gm] know you can't hold me for [C] ever .. I [F] didn't sign up with you [Bb] I'm not [Eb] a present for your [C] friends to open This boy [F] 's too young to be [F] singing The
[Drums in - don't sing first note - and go down an octave as well when necessary and use harmoniser] [Db]blues. ooh [Eb]ooh .. [Ab]la la la la [Db]la.... [Bbm] Ah..ah [C7]Ah....
[Chorus] So [F] goodbye yellow brick [A7] road .. Where the [Bb] dogs of society [F] howl .. You [D7] can't plant me in your [Gm] penthouse .. I'm [C] going back to my [F] plough [Dm] Back to the howling old [A] owl in the woods [Bb] Hunting the horny black [Db] toad [Db] Oh [Eb] I've [F] finally [C/E] decided my [Dm] future lies [Dm/C] ... Be [Bb] yond the [C] yellow brick
[Db]ro oh [Eb]oad .. [Ab]la la la la [Db]la.... [Bbm]Ah..ah [C7]Ah.... [F] Ah......
[Pause] [Verse 2] [Gm] What do you think you'll do [C] then? .. I [F] bet they'll shoot down the plane [Bb] .. It'll [Gm] take you a couple of [C] vodka and tonics .. to [F] set you on your feet again [F] [Gm] Maybe you'll get a re [C] placement .. There's [F] plenty like me to be [Bb] found [Eb] Mongrels who [C] ain't got a penny [F] Sniffing for tidbits like you [F] On the
[Db]gra ow [Eb]ound .. [Ab]la la la la [Db]la.... [Bbm]Ah..ah [C7]Ah....
[Chorus] So [F] goodbye yellow brick [A7] road .. Where the [Bb] dogs of society [F] howl .. You [D7] can't plant me in your [Gm] penthouse .. I'm [C] going back to my [F] plough [Dm] Back to the howling old [A] owl in the woods [Bb] Hunting the horny black [Db] toad [Db] Oh [Eb] I've [F] finally [C/E] decided my [Dm] future lies [Dm/C] ... Be [Bb] yond the [C] yellow brick [Db]ro oh [Eb]oad .. [Ab]la la la la [Db]la.... [Bbm]Ah..ah [C7]Ah.... [F] Ah......
