Chords for Bunny Wailer - Rise and Shine

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_ [Db] This is the cry of a [E] people who were robbed and raped from their homeland and their loved ones.
A people stripped of their culture, their dignity, their liberty and their rights.
[Gm] By the cruel and presumptuous hands of [Dm] the colonial and [Eb] imperialistic slavers who were
carved [Dm] into the West, [Gm] where for over 400 [Dm] years they have toiled and [Gm] labored.
And in their [Dm] blood, in their sweat and [Gm] tears and hands, they have [Dm] built the great city [Gm] of Babylon.
[Dm] Only to be paid with the [Gm] wages of the taskmasters quick, [Dm] quick, quick, quick, [Gm] torch, torch,
torch, torch, and death, [Dm] death, death, death.
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[Dm] Woah, [Gm] yeah, yeah.
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[Dm] [Am] This [Gm] is my history.
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[Dm] _ [Gm] Woah, yeah, yeah.
[C] [Bb] Woah.
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[Dm] _ _ [Gm] [Cm] We've been [Dm] down in the [Gm] valley [Dm] much too long.
[Gm] We've been [Dm] down in [Eb] captivity [F] for so long.
[Cm] We've been [E] [F] down in [Gm] humility [F] much too long.
[Gm] We've been [Dm] down in a [Gm] slavery [Dm] for so long.
[Gm] But we are going to rise [Bb] and [Gm] shine and bring [Dm] all you who may shine.
[Gm] For now's the [Dm] time [Gm] when our nation must be [Bb] free.
[Gm] So rise [Dm] and [Gm] shine.
[Dm] Restore your strength and power.
[Gm] Waste no more [Dm] time.
[Gm] Remember your history.
[Dm] _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _
[Dm] _ _ [Gm] Woah, [Bb] yeah.
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[Dm] _ _ [Gm] Woah.
[Am] Mum, [Bb] mum, mum, [Dm] mum, mum, [Gm] mum, mum, [Dm] mum, mum, mum, [Gm] mum.
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[Dm] _ _ [Gm] We've been [Dm] down in a [Gm] separation [F] much too long.
[Gm] We've been [Dm] down in a [Gm] trambulation [Dm] for so long.
[Bb] We've been [Dm] down in [Gm] segregation [Dm] much too long.
[Bb] We've been down [Dm] in [Gm] humiliation [Dm] for so long.
But [Gm] we're going to rise [Dm] and shine [Gm] as the morning sun [Dm] that surrounds you.
[Gm] It's international [Dm] morality time [Gm] where mankind must be [Bb] born anew.
[Gm] So [Bb] rise and shine [Gm] for the sake of the [Dm] younger generations.
[Gm] Put your [Bb] hearts and minds [Gm] to brotherhood and [Dm] unity.
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[Dm] _ [Gm] Woah, [Dm] yeah, yeah, yeah, [Gm] yeah.
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Remember [Gm] the slave masters.
[Bb] Remember [Gm] _ _
[Dm] _ [C] [Gm] the dazzling masters.
[F] _ [Gm] _ [Dm] _ [Gm] [Dm] Woah, yeah.
_ [Gm] We've been [Dm] down in [Gm] the valley [F] much too [Dm] long.
[Gm] We've been [Dm] down in [Gm] captivity [Dm] for so long.
[Gm] We've been [Dm] down in [Gm] slavery much [Dm] too long.
[Gm] We've been [Dm] down in [Gm] humility for [Dm] so long.
But we're [Gm] going to rise and [Dm] shine [Gm] and win our [Dm] liberation.
[Gm] _ For now's [Dm] the time when [Gm] our nations [Dm] must be free.
[Gm] _ Rise [Dm] and shine.
[Gm] Restore your [Dm] strength and power.
[Gm] Wait [Bb] no more time.
[Gm] Remember your [Dm] history.
We're just [Gm] going to rise [Dm] and shine [Cm] as the morning sun [Dm] that surrounds you.
[Gm] It's international morality time.
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