Tonart: Bb major
Verse 1
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Well, this is a song
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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big ones and little ones,
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and it's back on the scene again.
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And it goes like this.
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We shall not, we shall not be moved.
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We shall not, 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.
Oh, you know the song, all right.
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Back in 1938 in a textile strike
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they used to sing it like this
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in Tennessee.
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We're not afraid of gun thugs.
We're not afraid of gun thugs.
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We shall not be moved.
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Just like a tree that's
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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,
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The union is behind us,
The union is behind us,
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we shall not be moved.
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Just like a tree that's
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planted by the water,
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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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he should be removed.
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Just like the garbage planted in the alley,
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We shall not moved, we not moved.
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there was a black woman
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,
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we're walking for our freedom,
we're walking for our freedom,
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we shall not be moved,
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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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I got a letter from a friend in Italy
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who went down to the station
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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Remember they were saying basi nucleari,
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por gli americani, rispondiamo no,
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e se lo gianchi un fucile
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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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Carne dal canone, rispondiamo no!
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Por le americane, rispondiamo no!
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I si lo gianchi un fucile girata,
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rispondiamo no!
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Well, out in the southwest of the
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United States these days,
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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,
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suddenly getting together,
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not only fighting to organize
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 appreciation
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of the Spanish language
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and the Spanish cul ture.
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So they sing the song like this.
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They say, fuertes, fuertes.
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Fuertes somos ya.
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Strong, strong are we.
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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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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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Sometimes they say, viva Pancho Villa.
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Fuerte somos ya, viva Pancho Villa.
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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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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
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and we shall not be moved.
We are the conspiracy
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and we shall not be moved.
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Just like a tree that's
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planted by the water,
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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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We shall not be moved.
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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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We shall not be moved.
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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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We shall not be moved,
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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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