[Intro]
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
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Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!


[Verse 1]
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Preacher man, don't tell me,
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Heaven is under the earth.
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I know you don't know
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What life is really worth.
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It's not all that glitters is gold;
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Half the story has never been told:
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So now you see the light, eh!
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Stand up for your rights. come on!


[Chorus]
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
[Bm]              [F#m]   [Bm]                   [F#m]
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
[Bm]              [F#m]   [Bm]                   [F#m]
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
[Bm]              [F#m]   [Bm]                   [F#m]
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!


[Verse 2]
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Most people think,
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Great god will come from the skies,
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Take away everything
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And make everybody feel high.
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But if you know what life is worth,
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You will look for yours on earth:
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And now you see the light,
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You stand up for your rights. jah!


[Chorus]
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Get up, stand up! (jah, jah! )
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Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo! )
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Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up! )
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Don't give up the fight! (life is your right! )
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Get up, stand up! (so we can't give up the fight! )
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Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord! )
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Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on! )
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Don't give up the fight! (yeah! )


[Verse 3]
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We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -
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Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, lord.
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We know when we understand:
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Almighty god is a living man.
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You can fool some people sometimes,
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But you can't fool all the people all the time.
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So now we see the light (what you gonna do?),
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We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah! )


[Chorus]
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So you better Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up! )
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Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights! )
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Get up, stand up!
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Don't give up the fight! (don't give it up, don't give it up! )
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Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up! )
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Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up! )
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Get up, stand up!
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Don't give up the fight! (get up, stand up! )
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Get up, stand up!
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Stand up for your rights!
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Get up, stand up!
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Don't give up the fight!