Get Up, Stand Up
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 right
Get Up, Stand Up,
don’t give up the fight
Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights.
Get Up, Stand Up,
stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up,
don’t give up the fight
We sick an’ tired of-a your ism-skism game –
Dyin’ ‘n’ goin’ to heaven in-a Jesus’ name.
We know when 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,
We gonna stand up for our rights!
-Bob Marley
‘Get Up, Stand Up’ was the last song Bob Marley ever performed on stage… September 23, 1980 at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Police constable ‘Denver Sas’ smokes a water pipe known as a “hubbly bubbly” filled with marijuana on May 11, 1995 before the start of a protest march to legalize cannabis in Cape Town, South Africa