[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]
Pattern 1(C) 2 3 4 1 2 3 &4(F) 1 [Intro - No drums - C is on the main chord but start on F pickup phrase on 4] x x x ([F]*passing chord) [C] (Ho!) -- ([F]) [C] (Hey!) - ([F]) [C] (Ho!) -- ([F]) [C] (Hey!) - ([F])
[Verse 1] [C] (Ho!) I've been trying to do it right ([F]) [C] (Hey!) I've been living a lonely life ([F]) [C] (Ho!) I've been sleeping here instead ([F]) [C] (Hey!) I've been sleeping in my bed, ([Am] Ho!) sleeping in [G] my bed ....... ([F]) [C] (Hey!) --- ([F]) ([C] Ho!)--- ([F])
[Verse 2] [C] (Ho!) So show me family ([F]) [C] (Hey!) Or the blood that I would bleed ([F]) [C] (Ho!) I don't know where I belong ([F]) [C] (Hey!) I don't know where I went wrong ([Am] Ho!) But I can write [G] a song ([F])[C] Hey! (Drums in)
[Chorus - Slap snare 2/4] I belong with [Am] you, you belong with [G] me, you're my sweet [C] heart I belong with [Am] you, you belong with [G] me, you're my [F - play just before next C] sweet (just bass drum)
[Verse 3 - Bass drum] [C] (Ho!) I don't think you're right for him ([F]) [C] (Hey!) Think of what it might've been if ([F]) we [C] (Ho!) Took a bus to Chinatown ([F]) [C] (Hey!) I'd be standing on Canal ([Am] ho!) and [G] Bowery ([F][C] Hey!) ([Am] Ho!) She'd be standing [G] next to me ( [C] hey!) (Drums in)
[Chorus - Slap snare 2/4] I belong with [Am] you, you belong with [G] me, you're my sweet [C] heart - I belong with [Am] you, you belong with [G] me, you're my sweet [C] heart (full drums) Cause [F] love ........................ we [G] need it now [C] Let's [F] hope for some [G] ........... 'Cause [F] oh...................... , we're b [G] leeding ou [C] t
[Chorus] I belong with [Am] you, you belong with [G] me, you're my sweet [C] heart I belong with [Am] you, you belong with [G] me, you're my sweet
