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