Chords for K'NAAN - Wavin' Flag ft. will.i.am, David Guetta

_ [Am] When I get older, I will [Dm] be stronger.
[Am] They'll call me [G] freedom, just like a [C] waving flag.
So take [F] your flag, take [Am] your flag, take [G] your flag.
[C] Born to a throne, stronger than [Am] Rome.
A violent throne, [G] all people's throne.
[F] But it's my home, [C] all I have [F] known.
Where I got [C] grown, see me with Rome.
Out of the [Em] darkness, I [C] came the [F] farthest.
Among the [G] hardest of [F] rivals.
Learn from defeat, [Em] it can be bleak.
[Dm] Accept no defeat, [C] surrender, retreat.
So we're struggling, [G] fighting to teach.
[Am] And we're wondering, [G] when we'll be free.
[F] So we patiently wait, [Em] for that fateful day.
[F] It's not far away, [G] but for now we [C] say.
When I get [F] older, I will be stronger.
[Am] I'll make it better, [G] struggle no longer.
[C] When I get [F] older, I will be [Am] stronger.
They'll call me [G] freedom, just like a [C] waving flag.
So take [F] your flag, take [Am] your flag, take [G] your flag.
Take [C] your flag, _ [F] take [Am] your flag, take [G] your flag.
Oh, [C] so many [Bm] wars, deadly [Am] wars.
Bringing us [G] promises, ceasing us war.
[F] And in a situation [Em] when there's a [C] compensation,
[Dm] They got no occupation, [G] and buy no medications.
[C] It's a combination [G] of no education.
[Am] But we can navigate, it's [G] a Jamaican generation.
[F] Cause they can't control [Em] us, no they can't hold [Dm] us down.
People [G] pick it up, even though we [C] all struggling.
[G] Fighting to teach, [Am] and we're wondering, [G] when we'll be free.
[F] So we [G] patiently wait, for that [F] fateful day.
It's not far away, [G] but for now we say.
[C] When I get [F] older, I will be [Am] stronger.
I'll make it better, [G] struggle no [C] longer.
When I get older, [F] I will be stronger.
[Am] They'll call me [G] freedom, just like a waving [C] flag.
So take [F] your flag, take [Am] your flag, take [G] your flag.
Take [C] your flag, take [F] _ [Am] your flag, take your flag.
Take [G] your flag.
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[G] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _
[G] We will be singing, [C] _ _ [G] we'll be singing, [Am] _ _
[G] we'll be singing.
[F] When _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ I get [F] older, I will be stronger.
[Am] Stronger, stronger, [G] I will be stronger.
[C] Stronger, stronger, [F] I will be stronger.
They'll call me freedom, [G] just like a waving [C] flag.
So wave [F] your flag, now wave [Am] your flag.
Now wave [G] your flag, now wave [C] your flag.
Now wave [F] your flag, now keep [Am] your flag.
So keep [C] your flag.
Yeah.
_ [G] Just like a [Am] waving flag. _
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