Intro:
C F
When I get older I will be
Am G
Stronger they'll call me freedom just
C
Like a waving flag
Chorus:
C F
When I get older I will be
Am G
Stronger they'll call me freedom just
C
Like a waving flag
F
And then it goes back
Am
And then it goes back
G
And then it goes back
C
Born to a throne
G
Stronger than Rome
Am
But violent prone
G
Poor people zone
F
But it's my home
C
All I have known
F
Where I got grown
G
Streets we would roam
C
Out of the darkness
G
I came the farthest
Am G
Among the hardest survivin
F
Learn from these streets
C
It can be bleak
F
Accept no defeat
G
Surrender retreat
C G
So we struggling Fighting to eat
Am G
And we wondering When we will be free
F
So we patiently wait
C
For that faithful day
F
It's not far away
G
But for now we say
(Chorus)
C
So many wars
G
Settling scores
Am
Bring us promises
G
Leaving us poor
F
I heard them say
C
Love is the way
F
Love is the answer
G
That's what they say
C
But look how they treat us
G
Make us believers
Am
We fight their battles
G
Then they deceive us
F
Try to control us
C
They couldn't hold us
F
Cause we just move forward
G
Like buffalo soldiers
C G
But we strugglin' fighting to eat
Am G
And we wondering when we will be free
F
So we patiently wait
C
For that faithfully day
F
It's not far away
G
But for now we say
(Chorus x2)
Same chords for verses
And everybody will be singing it
And you and I will be singing it
And we all will be singing it
(Chorus x3)