Are You Gonna Stand Up? Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[F]Are[C][G][F][C][Dm][C][F][C]
we
gonna feed the hungry people?
[G]Are we gonna stand and [F]smile?
[C]Are we gonna take in the homeless?
[G]Are we gonna stand and [F]criticize?
[C]Are we gonna love one another?
[G]Are we gonna trade each other's [F]rights?
[C]Are we gonna love our
next door neighbors
[G]Even though they may be black or [F]white?
Are we gonna [C]stand up
for the South African people?
Are we gonna [G]stand up?
Oh, they've been suffering for so long
Are we gonna [F]stand up?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And [C]testify
[Am]Are [C]we gonna feed the hungry people?
[G]Are we gonna stand there and [F]smile?
[C]Are we gonna take in the hopeless?
[G]Are we gonna stand and [F]criticize?
[C]Are we gonna love one another?
[G]Are we gonna treat each other [F]right?
[C]Are we gonna love our
next -door neighbor?
[G]Even though they may be black or [F]white
Are we gonna [C]stand up
For Nelson Mandela
Are we gonna [G]stand up
Whoa, he's been in jail most of his life
Are we gonna [F]stand up
Stand up
Oh, for his most courageous [C]wife
Oh, [F]yeah
Both [C]of you and your lackeys
So [Dm]in South [C]Africa,[F]
all of you are going to [C]hell, oh [F]yeah.
Your nights will [C]be filled with bad dreams,
your days [F]filled with pain.
Are you going to [C]stand up
for the Vietnam veterans?
Are you going to [G]stand up
for the abused children?
Are you going to [F]stand up?
[C]Yeah.[Dm][C]
A government that teaches
[F]lies to its people,
teaches [C]it s people to lie, oh [F]yeah.
A government [C]that doesn't care
about all of [F]its people,
cares about none [C]of its people,
oh [F]yeah.
Are you going to [C]stand up
for the middle passage,
are you going to [G]stand up for
Whoa, for the holocaust
Are you gonna [F]stand up?
Stand up!
Testify!
[C]When the American Indians
found [F]Christopher Columbus
There was over [C]14 million Indians here
Oh [Dm]yeah!
[F]But most of them were [C]killed
By the hands of [F]the man
Yet the world goes [C]on
Oh yeah!
[F]Are you gonna [C]stand up
for the so -called American dream?
Are you gonna [G]stand up?
Oh, it's gonna turn out to be a nightmare
Are you gonna [F]stand up?
Yeah, [C]oh, [Dm]and testify
[C]They took almost all the[F] land
Put some of the Indians on [C]reservations
Now we all know it's wrong
[Dm]But until this[F] day,[C]
there's been very few [F]people
who have stood up to make it [C]right.
Oh [F]yeah. Are you gonna [C]stand up
for the American Indians?
Are you [G]gonna stand up
for those on the reservations?
Are you gonna [F]stand up?
[Dm]Yeah.[C]
Oh [F]yeah,
let's stand [Dm]up for Malcolm X[C],
Martin Luther King,
[F]Harriet Tubman,
let's stand [C]up for Marcus Garbus,
Nat Turner,
[F]and Patricia Lumumba,
and let us [C]all stand up
for the Reverend [F]Jesse Jackson.
Are you gonna [C]stand up
for truth and justice?
[C]Are you gonna [G]stand up
so that we all can have peace?
Are you gonna [F]stand up
and everybody should be free?