Tom: G
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?
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When every time I look around
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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
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(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
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Some people got pride and shame
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Some people got the plots and schemes
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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
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Some people put the best outside
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Some people keep the best inside
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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
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In this age of technological inhumanity (black survival)
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Scientific atrocity (survivors)
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Atomic misphilosophy (black survival)
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Nuclear misenergy (survivors)
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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!
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Were the survivors
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A good man is never honoured (survivors)
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In his own yountry (black survival)
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Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors)
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Nothing change, nothing strange (black survivors)
Am
We got to survive, yall! (survivors)
