Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don ’t give up the fight!
Preacherman, don ’t teII me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don ’t know
What Iife is reaIIy worth.
It ’s not aII that gIitters is goId;
‘AIf the story has never been toId:
So now you see the Iight, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don ’t give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don ’t give up the fight!
Most peopIe think,
Great God wiII come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feeI high.
But if you know what Iife is worth,
You wiII Iook for yours on earth:
And now you see the Iight,
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 struggIing on!)
Don ’t give up the fight! (Yeah!)
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:
AImighty God is a Iiving man.
You can fooI some peopIe sometimes,
But you can ’t fooI aII the peopIe aII the time.
So now we see the Iight (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! [fadeout]