Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

(Ow-ow-ow-ow, ow, ow-ow-ow-ow), yeah, yeah, yeah!

Verse 1

How can you be sitting there, telling me that you care?

When everytime I look around, the people suffer in suffering,

In every way, in everywhere.

Na-na-na-na-na, (na-na-na-na).

Chorus 1

We're the sur-vivors, yes, the black survival. I tell you what;

Verse 2

Some people got everything, some people got nothing.

Some people got hopes and dreams, some people got ways and means.

Na-na-na-na-na, (na-na-na-na).

Chorus 2

We're the sur-vivors, yes, the black survival,

Yes we're the survivors, like Daniel out of the lions' den,

Survivors, survivors.

Bridge 1

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So my brethren, my sisthren, which way will we choose?

We better hurry, oh hurry, woah now, 'cos we got no time to lose.

Verse 3

Some people got facts and claims, some peole got pride and shame.

Some people got the plots and schemes, some people got no aim it seems.

Na-na-na-na-na, (na-na-na-na).

Chorus 3

We're the sur-vivors, yes, the black survival,

We're the survivors, yeah, the black survival.

We're the survivors, (like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego).

Thrown in the fire, but never get burn.

Bridge 2

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So my brethren, my sisthren, the preaching and talking is done,

[c]

We gotta live up, woah now, woah now, 'cos the father's time has come.

Verse 4

Some people put the best outside, some people keep the best inside.

Some people can't stand up strong, some people won't wait for long.

Na-na-na-na-na, (na-na-na-na).

Chorus 4

We're the sur-vivors in this age of technological inhumanity,

(Survivors), scientific atrocity, (survivors), atomic mis-philosophy,

(Survivors), Nuclear mis-energy, (black survival).

It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity,

(Black survival), all together now:

Na-na-na-na-na, (na-na-na-na).

Coda

We're the sur-vivors, yeah, the black survival.

We're the sur-vivors, a good man is never honoured, (survivors),

In his own country, (black survival).

Nothing change, nothing strange, (survivors).

Nothing change, nothing strange, (black survival).

(Fade)

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