[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 - Drum straight in] Pick up phrase 4& - D-6, B-5 then play Cm, Csus2, x46444 [C#m7][C#m7][Aadd9-x02222][E] x 4
[Verse 1] It's not a [C#m7] silly little moment It's not the [Aadd9] storm before the [E] calm This is the [C#m7] deep and dying breath of This love that we've been [Aadd9] working [E] on
Can't seem to [C#m7] hold you like I want to So I can [Aadd9] feel you in my [E] arms Nobody's [C#m7] gonna come and save you We've pulled too many [Aadd9] false al [E] arms
[Chorus - Badd11-799800,F#m11-24x200 ] We're going [Badd11] down And you can [C#m7-9-11-x-9-0-0] see it [Aadd9] too We're going [Badd11] down And you [C#m7] know that we're [F#m11-play F#m7 instead] doomed My [C#m7] dear, we're slow [C#m7] dancing in a [Aadd9] burning [E] room
[Instrumental] [C#m7][C#m7][Aadd9-x02222][E] x 4
[Verse 2] I was the [C#m7] one you always dreamed of You were the [Aadd9] one I tried to d [E] raw How dare you [C#m7] say it's nothing to me Baby, you're the only [Aadd9] light I ever [E] saw
I'll make the [C#m7] most of all the sadness You'll be a [Aadd9] bitch because you [E] can You try to [C#m7] hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'Cause you [Aadd9] can't under [E] stand
[Chorus] We're going [Badd11] down And you can [C#m7] see it [Aadd9] too We're going [Badd11] down And you [C#m7] know that we're [F#m11] doomed My [C#m7] dear, we're slow [C#m7] dancing in a [Aadd9] burning [E] room
[Instrumental] [C#m7][C#m7][Aadd9-x02222][E] x 4
[Bridge] Go [F#m11] cry about it, why [C#m7C#m7-9-11-x-9-0-0] don't you [Badd11][Aadd9] Go [F#m11] cry about it, why [C#m7] don't you [Badd11][Aadd9] Go [F#m11] cry about it, why [C#m7] don't you [Badd11][Aadd9] My [C#m7] dear, we're slow [C#m7] dancing in a [Aadd9] burning [E] room
[Instrumental] [C#m7][C#m7][Aadd9-x02222][E] x 4
[Outro] Don't you think we oughta [C#m7] know by now ... Don't you [C#m7] think we should've [Aadd9] learned some [E]how [Repeat twice]
[Fade to end] [E]
(Chords I use) E A D G B e - - - - - - E 0 2 2 1 0 0 C#m7 9 11 x 9 0 0 Aadd9 5 7 7 6 0 0 Badd11 7 9 9 8 0 0 F#m11 2 4 x 2 0 0
[Tab for solo * first finger full barre] [E][C#m7]* [A][E] E 9-11s12---12--11--9------9-------- B 9----9---------------12--10----9-- G 9----9-------------------9-----9-- D 9----9-------------------x-----9-- A -----11------------------0-----x-- E -----9-------------------------0--
