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 glitter is gold

Half the story has never been told

So now you see the light, ay

You stand up for your right

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 would look for yours on earth

And now you see the light

You stand up for your right, yeah

Get up, stand up (yeah, yeah)

Stand up for your right (oh-ooh)

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 right (Lord, Lord)

Get up, stand up (keep on struggling on)

Don't give up the fight (yeah)

We're sick and tired of your ism and schism game

Die and go to heaven in Jesus' name, Lord

We know and 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 gon' do?)

We going to stand up for our right (yeah, yeah, yeah)

So you'd better

Get up, stand up (in the morning, don't give it up)

Stand up for your right (stand up right now)

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 right (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 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

Get up, stand up