Get Up, Stand Up -- Bob Marley

(**) Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!  Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights   Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Preacherman, 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  Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh  Stand up for your rights. Come on!

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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. Jah!

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We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game  Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
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! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

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This song is about taking action to avoid oppression. Marley wrote it with Peter Tosh, and the song was influenced by their upbringing in Jamaica, where they had to fight for respect and acceptance for their Rastafarian religion                                               (songfacts)  

   

     Rastafarian religionoriginated in Africa. 

The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a new religious movement. It arose in the 1930s in Jamaica, a country with a predominantly Christian culture where 98% of the people were the black descendants of slaves. Most of its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930–1974), as God incarnate, the Second Advent, or the reincarnation of Jesus. Members of the Rastafari movement are known as Rastas, or Rastafari. The movement is sometimes referred to as "Rastafarianism", but this term is considered derogatory and offensive by some Rastas, who, being highly critical of "isms", dislike being labelled as an "ism" themselves.

The Rastafari movement encompasses themes such as the spiritual use of cannabis and the rejection of western society, called Babylon (from the metaphorical Babylon of the Christian New Testament). It proclaims Africa (also "Zion") as the original birthplace of mankind, and from the beginning of the movement the call to repatriation to Africa has been a central theme. Rasta also embraces various Afrocentric and Pan-African social and political aspirations, such as the sociopolitical views and teachings of Jamaican publicist, organizer, and black nationalist Marcus Garvey . Another theme is Royalty, with Rastas seeing themselves as African royalty and using honorifics such as Prince or King in order to give royalty to their names.

Rastafari is not a highly organized religion; it is a movement and an ideology. Many Rastas say that it is not a "religion" at all, but a "Way of Life". Many Rastas do not claim any sect or denomination, and thus encourage one another to find faith and inspiration within themselves, although some do identify strongly with one of the "mansions of Rastafari" — the three most prominent of these being the Nyahbinghi, the Bobo Ashanti and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.                                                                                                      (wikipedia)