Stand Up For Your Right

Original Song: “Get Up, Stand Up”

Album: Survival

Label: Tuff Gong/Island

Year: 1973

Notes:

“A rebel man. [We] a revolutionaries.” Men of Just War. AIRHORN!!

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
(1 Corinthians 16:13)

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights (x3)
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
Stand up for your rights

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights (x3)
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’ve seen the Light
You stand up for your rights

Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights (x3)
Get up, stand up (in the morning yeah)
Don’t give up the fight

[Peter Tosh]
We’re sick and tired of your bullshit game
To die and go to heaven in Jesus’ name*
We know and understand
Almighty God is a living man
You can fool some people sometimes
But you can’t fool all the people all the time
And now we’ve seen the light
We gonna stand up for our rights

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

(Psalm 82:6)

(*Ed. Note: The letter J is less than 500 years old.)

Get up, stand up
Stand up for you rights (x4)

I say, Preacher man don’t tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don’t know
What life is really worth

Fool people
But you can’t fool all the time
And now we’ve seen the light
We gonna stand up for our rights

Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up
Don’t give up the fight

20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.

20:2 When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army.

20:3 He shall say: “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them.

20:4 For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”
(Deuteronomy 20:1-4)