[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]
Standard fingering with R/H so can play descending Bsus2 arp fluently E 1--1--1-0h1p0--1- B -----1-------1--- G --2-2---------2-- D ----------------- A --------0-------- E 1---------------- DRB-S-B-S-B---S-B-S-B
E --------------------- B ----6-3-----6-3------ G --3----5p3-3---5p35-- D --------------------- A --------------------- E -3-3------3----------
E --3-1p0----3--1p0-------1-------1------ B -1-----3p1-------1-11h3--3p1------3p1-1 G ------------------0----3----3--3-----3- D -----------------------------3--------- A 0---------3--3------1---------1-------- E --------------------------------------- When descending the notes of the Bsus2 do the pulloff with the little finger and then move that to 3rd fret of D string - to fret - nice rolling sustained figure [Repeat above once]
[Verse1] They say that [F] these are not the [Fmaj7/A] best of times But [Gm7] they're the only [Bbsus2] times I've ever [F] known [Fmaj7/A][Gm7][Bbsus2] And I [F] believe there is a [Fmaj7/A] time for medi [Gm7] tation In [Bbsus2] cathedrals of our [C] own ([C][G]) [C][A7] Now I've [Dm] seen that sad sur [C] render in my [Bbsus2] lover's eyes [Bbsus2/A] And [G7sus4] I can only [G7] stand upon and [Cadd9] sympathize [C] For we are [Bb] always what our [F] situations [Gm7] hand us It's either [C] sadness or [Bbsus2] euphoria - [Eb][Bbsus2] (drums in)
[Verse2] So we'll [F] argue and we'll [Fmaj7/A] compromise And [Gm7] realize that [Bbsus2] nothing's ever [F] changed [Fmaj7/A][Gm7][Bbsus2] ..For all our [F] mutual [Fmaj7/A] experience Our [Gm7] separate con [Bbsus2] clusions are the [C] same ([C][G]) [C][A7] .. Now we are [Dm] forced to recog [C] nize our inhu [Bbsus2] manity [Bbsus2/A] .. Our [G7sus4] reason co [G7] exists with our in [Cadd9] sanity [C] .. And though we [Bb] choose between re [F] ality and [Gm7] madness .. It's either [C] sadness or [Bbsus2] euphoria [Eb][Bbsus2]
[Verse3] How [Dm] thoughtlessly we [C] dissipate our [Bbsus2] energies [Bbsus2/A] Per [G7sus4] haps we don't ful [G7] fill each other's [Cadd9] fantasies [C] .. And as we [Bb] stand upon the [F] ledges of our [Gm7] lives With our [C] respective simi [Bbsus2] larities [Eb][Bbsus2] It's either [C] sadness or [F] euphoria.
[Outro] [F][Fmaj7/A][Gm7][Bbsus2] [F] Wo [Fmaj7/A] oo woh oo [Gm7] oh oo [Bbsus2] woh oh oo [F] oh [Fmaj7/A] ooh [Gm7] wo ooh [Bbsus2] woh oh oo (slows done to end) [Am7] woh oh [C] oh [Bbsus2] oh [C - (C C Cadd9 C Cadd6)] [F]
[Notes] Final chord C C C9 C C6 (x3x210 - move 2nd finger up to G string when playing normal C)
