Bob Marley & The Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up

Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight

Preacher-man, don't tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know
What life is really worth
It's not all that glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, ey
Just stand up for your rights, come on

Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight

Most people think great God will come from the sky
Take away everything and make everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You will look for yours on earth
And now you see the light
You stand up for your rights, Jah

Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on strugglin' on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)

- Peter Tosh:
We're sick and tired of your ism-skism game
Dying and going 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!)

So you better
Get up, stand up! (In the morning! git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight!
(Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight..

Note:

This song is the original version first released in 1973.
It was later covered by Martha Velez in 1976, by Bunny Wailer in 1977 and by Peter Tosh in 1977.

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