[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]
Play twice - just with bass drum E -7-8--10-8--7----12-13-15-13-12----7-8--10-8--7--------- B -8-10-12-10-8----13-15-17-15-13----8-10-12-10-8----7--7-8-10 G ---------------------------------------------------7--7-----
[Verse - Drums in] [G] Hey where did [C] we go, [G] days when the [D] rains came [G] Down in the [C] hollow, [G] playin' a [D] new game [G] Laughin' and a- [C] runnin' hey, hey, [G] skippin' and a- [D] jumpin' [G] In the misty [C] mornin' fog with, [G] ah, our [D] hearts thumpin' and [C] you [D] My brown-eyed [G] girl, [Em] [C] you're my [D] brown-eyed [G] girl [D7]
[Verse] [G] Whatever [C] happened, [G] to Tuesday is [D] so slow [G] Goin' down the [C] old mine with a [G] transistor [D] radio [G] Standin' in the [C] sunlight laughin', [G] hidin' behind a [D] rainbow's wall [G] Slippin' and a- [C] slidin' [G] all along the [D] waterfall with yo [C] u [D] My brown-eyed [G] girl, [Em] [C] you're my [D] brown-eyed [G] girl
[D7] Do you remember when we used to
[Chorus] [G] sing Sha la la [C] la la la la [G] la la la la te [D] da (just like that) [G] Sha la la [C] la la la la [G] la la la la te [D] da, la te [G] da [G][G]
[Bass solo - JUST BASS DRUM] (Can play G then ascend on A string 0 2 3 to C then play D x5777 x5555 to allude to riff) --G-G--G--G--G-----------C------G--------D------- D 5-55-55-55-5--------------2-4-5---------------5 A ----------------------23-3-----------3-5--55-7 E --------------3---3-3-------------------------
[Verse - DRUMS BACK IN] [G] So hard to [C] find my way, [G] now that I'm all [D] on my own [G] I saw you just the [C] other day, [G] my, how [D] you have grown [G] Cast my memory [C] back there, Lord, [G] sometimes I'm [D] overcome thinkin' about [G] Makin' love in the [C] green grass, [G] behind the [D] stadium with [C] you [D] My brown-eyed [G] girl, [Em] [C] a-you're my [D] brown-eyed [G] girl
[D7] Do you remember when we used to
[Chorus] [G] sing Sha la la [C] la la la la [G] la la la la te [D] da (just like that) [G] Sha la la [C] la la la la [G] la la la la te [D] da, la te [G] da [G][G]
