[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 BPM 98] Vox- have one on double - that should do it - no harmonies |-/-/-/-/-|-/-/-/-/-|-/-/-/-/-|-/-/-/-----/--| --E---------C#m7------Amaj7---------Cmaj7-Bm7 |-/-/-/-/-|-/-/-/-/-|-/-/-/-/-|-/--/--/--/--| --E---------C#m7------Amaj7-----Cmaj7----Bm7
[Verse 1] [E] When I wake up in the [C#m7] morning love [Amaj7] [Amaj7] And the sunlight hurts my eyes [Cmaj7][Bm7] [E] And something without [C#m7] warning love [Amaj7] [Amaj7] Bears heavy on my [Cmaj7] mind
[Pre-chorus] [Am7/D] Then I look at you [Bm7/E] And the world's a [Am7] lright with me [Bm7] [Am7/D] Just one look at you [Bm7/E] And I know it's [Am7] gonna be [Bm7]
[Chorus] A lovely [E] day (Lovely day lovely day [C#m7] lovely day lovely day [Amaj7] lovely day lovely day [Cmaj7] lovely day lovely [Bm7] day) A lovely [E] day (Lovely day lovely day [C#m7] lovely day lovely day [Amaj7] lovely day lovely day [Cmaj7] lovely day lovely [Bm7] day)
[Verse 2] [E] When the day that lies [C#m7] ahead of me [Amaj7] [Amaj7] Seems impossible to face [Cmaj7][Bm7] [E] When someone else in [C#m7] stead of me [Amaj7] [Amaj7] Always seems to know the [Cmaj7] way
[Pre-chorus] [Am7/D] Then I look at you [Bm7/E] And the world's a [Am7] lright with me [Bm7] [Am7/D] Just one look at you [Bm7/E] And I know it's [Am7] gonna be [Bm7]
[Chorus] A lovely [E] day (Lovely day lovely day [C#m7] lovely day lovely day [Amaj7] lovely day lovely day [Cmaj7] lovely day lovely [Bm7] day) A lovely [E] day (Lovely day lovely day [C#m7] lovely day lovely day [Amaj7] lovely day lovely day [Cmaj7] lovely day lovely [Bm7] day)
[Verse 3] [E] When the day that lies a [C#m7] head of me [Amaj7] [Amaj7] Seems impossible to face [Cmaj7][Bm7] [E] When someone else in [C#m7] stead of me [Amaj7] [Amaj7] Always seems to know the [Cmaj7] way
[Pre-chorus] [Am7/D] Then I look at you [Bm7/E] And the whole world's a [Am7] lright with me [Bm7] [Am7/D] Just one look at you [Bm7/E] And I know it's [Am7] gonna be [Bm7]
[Chorus - x 2 or fade] A lovely [E] day (Lovely day lovely day [C#m7] lovely day lovely day [Amaj7] lovely day lovely day [Cmaj7] lovely day lovely [Bm7] day) A lovely [E] day (Lovely day lovely day [C#m7] lovely day lovely day [Amaj7] lovely day lovely day [Cmaj7] lovely day lovely [Bm7] day)
