Standard (EADGBE)

When I get older, I will be stronger,

They'll call me freedom, just like a Wavin' Flag

(Verse 1):

Born to a throne, stronger than Rome

but violence prone, poor people zone,

But it's my home, all I have known,

Where I got grown, streets we would roam.

 But out of the darkness, I came the farthest,

Among the hardest survival.

Learn from these streets, it can be bleak,

Except no defeat, surrender retreat,

 So we struggling, fighting to eat and

 We wondering when we'll be free,

 So we patiently wait, for that fateful day,

 It's not far away, so for now we say

Chorus

When I get older, I will be stronger,

They'll call me freedom, just like a Wavin' flag

 And then it goes back, and then it goes back,

 And then it goes back, and then it goes

When I get older, I will be stronger,

They'll call me freedom, just like a Wavin' flag

 And then it goes back, and then it goes back,

 And then it goes back oh oh oh

(Verse 2 – same chords as Verse 1):

So many wars, settling scores,

Bringing us promises, leaving us poor,

I heard them say, love is the way,

Love is the answer, that's what they say,

But look how they treat us, Make us believers,

We fight their battles, then they deceive us,

Try to control us, they couldn't hold us,

Cause we just move forward like Buffalo Soldiers.

But we struggling, fighting to eat,

And we wondering, when we'll be free

So we patiently wait, for that faithful day,

It's not far away, but for now we say,

Chorus

(Bridge (Note 2nd and 3rd “oh,oh,ohlines are sung simultaneously with the two

lines of lyrics immediately following them):

(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)

And everybody will be singing it

(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)

And you and I will be singing it

(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)

 And we all will be singing it

(Ohhh Ohh Ohh Ohh)

Chorus

2x

Coda

When I get older, when I get older

When I get older, just like a Waving Flag,

Just like a Waving Flag, just like a Waving Flag

Flag, flag, Just like a Waving Flag