Key: C major
Intro 1
When I get older I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom,
Chorus 1
just like a wavin' flag
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When I get older, I will be stronger
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They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag
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Bbm
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
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And then it goes back, oh
Verse 1
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Born to a throne, stronger than Rome
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A violence prone, poor people zone
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But it's my home, all I have known
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Where I got grown, streets we would roam
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Out of the darkness, I came the farthest
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Among the hardest survival
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Learn from these streets, it can be bleak
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Accept no defeat, surrender, retreat
Pre-chorus 1
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So we struggling, fighting to eat
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And we wondering when we'll be free
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So we patiently wait for that fateful day
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It's not far away, but for now we say
Chorus 2
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When I get older, I will be stronger
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Ab
Db
They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag
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Bbm
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
Ab
And then it goes back, oh
Verse 2
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So many wars, settling scores
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Bringing us promises, leaving us poor
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I heard them say 'love is the way'
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'Love is the answer, that's what they say
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But look how they treat us, make us believers
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We fight their battles, then they deceive us
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Try to control us, they couldn't hold us
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Cause we just move forward
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Like Buffalo Soldiers
Pre-chorus 2
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But we struggling, fighting to eat
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And we wondering when we'll be free
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Fm
So we patiently wait for that fateful day
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It's not far away, but for now we say
Chorus 3
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Gb
When I get older, I will be stronger
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Ab
Db
They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag
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Bbm
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
Ab
And then it goes back
Chorus 4
And then it goes
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When I get older, I will be stronger
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They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag
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Bbm
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
Ab
And then it goes back
Bridge 1
And then it goes
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And then it goes
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And everybody will will be singing it
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And you and I will be singing it
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And we all will be singing it
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Oh, oh, oh
Chorus 5
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When I get older, I will be stronger
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Ab
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They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag
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Bbm
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
Ab
And then it goes back
Chorus 6
And then it goes
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When I get older, I will be stronger
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They'll call me freedom just like a wavin' flag
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And then it goes back, and then it goes back
Ab
And then it goes back, oh
Outro 1
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When I get older, when I get older
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I will be stronger
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just like a wavin' flag
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Just like a wavin' flag,
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Just like a wavin' flag
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Flag, flag, just like a wavin' flag
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