Intro: C-F-Am-G-
K'naan Speaks
C F
It started out as my song
Am G
but then it became their song
C
all of these artists' song
F Am G
and it's going to be haiti's song
Chorus 1:
C
When I get older
F
I will be stronger
Am
They'll call me freedom
G
just like a Waving Flag
Verse 1:
K'naan:
C G/B
Born to a throne older than Rome
Am G
a Violent prone poor people zone
Nelly Furtado:
F C/E
But it's my home all I have known
Sam Roberts:
Dm G
Where I got grown but now it's gone
Avril Lavigne:
C G/B
out of the darkness and came it card fest
Am G
threatening my buried survival
Pierre Bouvier
F C/E
Fractured from streets and broke all my dreams
Tyler Connolly:
Dm G
now feels like defeat, don't red should retreat,
Refrain 1:
C G/B
So we struggling fighting to eat and
Am G
We wondering when we'll be free
F C/E
we cannot wait for some fateful day
Dm G
It's too far away so right now we say
Chorus 2:
C F
When I get older I will be stronger
Am G C
They'll call me freedom,just like a Waving flag
F Am
And then it goes back and then it goes back
G
And then it goes back oh oh oh
Verse 2:
Lights:
C G/B
So many wars settling scores,
Deryck Whibley:
Am G
All out we've been through and now there is more
Serena Ryder:
F C/E
I heard them say love is the way
Jacob Hoggard:
Dm G
Love is the answer that's what they say
Emily Haines:
C G/B
But we're not just dreamers of broken down river
Hawksley Workman:
Am G
How can we reach us if they're too routine far
Drake:
F C/E Dm
This can't control us no they couldn't hold us down
Chin Injeti:
G
We may pick it up even though we're still
Refrain 2:
C G/B
So we struggling no folder i should eat
Am G
We wondering but tounge for redeem
F C/E
we patiently wait for some other day
Dm G
It's too far away so right now we say
(Repeat Chorus 2 twice)
Bridge:
Canadian Rapper named Mad Child:
C
how can do the media stop covering
G/B
it's little help from the government
Am
we forget about the people who is struggling
G
I'm so nevrous and awful now and then and
F C/E
no see we don't have to wait for things
Dm
to break apart if you weren't involve
G
before it's not too late to start
C
You probably think that it's
G/B
too far to even have to care
Am G
well take a look the way you lived
what if it happened there
F C/E
You have to know that urge to make
Dm
a change lives but then we can be
G
a reason that they see the blacks rise again
Chorus 3: Modulate from C to D
D G
When I get older I will be stronger
Bm A D
They'll call me freedom, just like a Waving flag
G Bm
And then it goes back and then it goes back
A
And then it goes back oh oh oh
(Repeat)
Outro:
Justin Bieber:
D G
When I get older
Bm A
When I get older
D G
I will be stronger
Bm A D(hold)
Just like the waving flag
