GET UP, STAND UP^©

Human Rights Now! tour version

[all]
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 right
Get up stand up, don't give up the fight

[Sting]
Preacher man don't tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know
What life is really worth
[Peter Gabriel]
Not all that glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
[Peter and Bruce]
So now you see the light
Stand up for your right

[all]
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

[Tracy Chapman]
Most people think
A great God will come from the sky
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high
But if you knew what life is worth
You will look to yours on earth
[Tracy and Bruce]
And now you've seen the light
Stand up for your rights

[all] Get up stand up, [Sting] get up stand up
[all] Stand up for your right, [Sting] stand up for your right
[all] Get up stand up [Sting], get up stand up
[all] Don't give up the fight, [Sting] give up, give up, don't give up
[all]
Get up stand up, stand up for your right
Get up stand up, don't give up the fight

[Bruce]
We're sick and tired of your easing kissing
I'm going to heaven in Jesus name
Cause we know and we understand
That mighty God is a living man
[Yussou N'Dour]
You can fool some people sometimes
But you can't fool all the people all the time
[all]
Now you see the light
Stand up for our rights

[all] Get up stand up, [Sting] get up stand up
[all] Stand up for your right, [Sting] stand up for your right
[all] Get up stand up [Sting], get up stand up
[all] Don't give up the fight, [Sting] don't give up the

[Yussou N'Dour]
We yoh
[audience]
We yoh
[Yussou N'Dour]
We yoh yoh yoh
[audience]
We yoh yoh yoh
[Yussou N'Dour]
We don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight
[audience]
Don't give up the fight
[Yussou N'Dour]
We yoh
[audience]
We yoh
[Yussou N'Dour]
We yoh yoh yoh
[audience]
We yoh yoh yoh
[Yussou N'Dour]
We don't give up the fight
[Tracy Chapman]
Don't give up the fight

[somebody in Spanish]
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[Bruce and Sting in Spanish]
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[all]
Don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight

Written by Bob Marley and Pete Tosh, and originally performed by Bob Marley. Played in coral version twice during each the 20 Human Rights Now! Tour shows in 1988 (opening and closing the show), with Sting, Yussou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel, and Tracy Chapman. Also performed on 10 Dec 1998 during a benefit show for the Amnesty International Foundation at the Omni Palace Bercy stadium, Paris, France, with Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, and Yussou N'Dour.

The above lyrics are for the closing 15 Oct 1988 performance at the River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Check also Bob Marley's original version.