Survival

	  		Am 
(ow, ow-ow-ow-ow! 
Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!) 
Yeah, yeah, yeah! 
 
Am 
How can you be sitting there 
F 
Telling me that you care - 
         Am 
That you care? 
Am  
When every time I look around, 
           F 
The people suffer in the suffering 
       Am 
In everyway, in everywhere. 
     F           Am            G 
Say: na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!): 
            Am 
Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors! 
 
                 Am 
I tell you what: some people got everything; 
Am 
Some people got nothing; 
Am 
Some people got hopes and dreams; 
Am 
Some people got ways and means. 
F           Am            G 
Na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!): 
            Am 
Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors! 
                 Am 
Yes, were the survivors, like daniel out of the lions den 
                     Am 
(black survivors) survivors, survivors! 
 
     C 
So I idren, I sistren, 
  F                 Em 
A-which way will we choose? 
          Am  
We better hurry; oh, hurry; oh, hurry; wo, now! 
F               G 
cause we got no time to lose. 
 
Am 
Some people got facts and claims; 
Am 
Some people got pride and shame; 
Am 
Some people got the plots and schemes; 
Am 
Some people got no aim it seems! 
F           Am         G 
Na-na-na-na-na, na-na, na! 
            Am             
Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors! 
                           Am 
Tell you what: were the survivors, yeah! - the black survivors, yeah! 
            Am 
Were the survivors, like shadrach, meshach and abednego (black survivors), 
Am 
Thrown in the fire, but-a never get burn. 
 
C 
So I idren, i-sistren, 
F                           Em 
The preaching and talkin is done; 
Am 
Weve gotta live up, wo now, wo now! - 
F                 G 
cause the fathers time has come. 
Am 
Some people put the best outside; 
Am 
Some people keep the best inside; 
Am 
Some people cant stand up strong; 
Am 
Some people won't wait for long. 
 
F        Am        G                     
na-na-na na, na-na-na! 
            Am 
Were the survivors 
Am 
In this age of technological inhumanity (black survival), 
Am 
Scientific atrocity (survivors), 
Am 
Atomic misphilosophy (black survival), 
Am 
Nuclear misenergy (survivors): 
      Am 
Its a world that forces lifelong insecurity (black survival). 
 
F        Am        G 
na-na-na na, na-na-na! 
            Am 
Were the survivors, yeah! 
Am 
Were the survivors! 
Am 
Yes, the black survivors! 
Am 
Were the survivors: 
Am 
A good man is never honoured (survivors) 
Am 
In his own yountry (black survival). 
Am 
Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors). 
Am 
Nothing change, nothing strange (black survivors). 
Am 
We got to survive, yall! (survivors) - /fadeout/ 
 
Transcrição: Gabriel Rocha Gaspar (Pensa)