Key: Bb major
Verse 1
that's been jumping around the country
since before the Civil War,
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a long time.
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It's been used in all kinds of struggles,
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and it's back on the scene again.
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Just like a tree planted by the water.
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We shall not be moved.
Oh, you know the song, all right.
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Back in 1938 in a textile strike
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in Tennessee.
We're not afraid of gun thugs.
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planted by the wa ter,
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we shall not be moved.
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When I was a kid growing up in Detroit,
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used to sing outside the shop gates
while the autoworkers were trying
to fight for pay raises
right after World War II,
and we used to sing,
The union is behind us,
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we shall not be moved.
Sometimes we say,
Henry Ford's a bastard,
Henry Ford's a bastard,
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Just like the garbage planted in the alley,
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We shall not moved, we not moved.
by the name of Rosa Parks
who got tired of having to stand up
in the crowded back of the
bus all the time.
One day she said, that's it, that's all,
I've had it, I'm going to sit down.
And with that began the
famous Montgomery bus boycotts,
and they said,
we're walking for our freedom,
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just like a tree standing by the water,
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we shall not be moved.
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I got a letter from a friend in Scotland,
he says there's a lake there
called the Holy Lock,
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and they sing, we don't want Polaris,
we don't want Polaris,
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we shall not be moved,
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the day that our dearly beloved President
Richard Milhous Nixon
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was go ing to stop off in Italy to
check things out.
Well, he checked them out,
and they checked him out.
He didn't leave the airport.
He just did a little speech
and got back on the plane and split,
because the people over
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si dara.
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That means if the Yankees try to give us a gun,
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we say no.
meat for the cannons,
we don't want to be that,
even for the Americans.
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I si lo gianchi un fucile girata,
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rispondiamo no!
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a lot of people who used to be ashamed of the fact that they grew
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up in homes where only Spanish was spoken,
themselves
and have a union and get some rights,
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but also fighting for the use
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and the Spanish cul ture.
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So they sing the song like this.
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Fuertes somos ya.
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The rest of it means the same thing.
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Fuertes, fuertes, fuertes somos ya.
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Como un arbol, viva Cerco al Rio.
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Fuerte somos ya.
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Fuerte somos ya como un arbol.
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Viva Cerco al Rio.
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Fuerte so mos ya.
Viva Che Guevara.
Viva Che Guevara.
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Fuerte somos ya como un árbol,
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fuerte so mos ya
And as you travel around the country these days,
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you hear new verses everywhere
The kind of thing you hear is like,
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free Huey Newton, we shall not be moved
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Just like a tree planted by the water
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We shall not be moved.
We are the conspiracy
We are the conspiracy
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We shall not be moved.
And your jail walls cannot hold us,
And your jail walls cannot hold us,
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Just like a tree standing by the water,
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we shall not be moved.
You know why?
Because we are the people.
We are the people.
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Just like a tree standing by the water,
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we shall not be moved.
You know what's happening?
We're coming on to victory.
We're coming on to victory.
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Landed by the water,
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We shall not be,
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We shall not be moved.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb F Eb Gm
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