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Learn Through English |
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Music/Ethics: Human Rights |
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Song: Get Up, Stand Up
Author: Bob Marley |
1. What do you know about Bob Marley? Find some information about him and fill in this table.
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2. What is the role of rastafarianism in Marley’s life and career?
3. Read the song from top to bottom carefully. Find the words you don’t understand in a dictionary.
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don’t give up the fight! Preacherman, don’t tell me, Heaven is under the earth. I know you don’t know What life is really worth. It’s not all that glitters is gold; ’alf the story has never been told: So now you see the light, eh! Stand up for your rights. come on! Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don’t give up the fight! Most people think, Great God will come from the skies, Take away everything And make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, You will look for yours on earth: And now you see the light, You stand up for your rights. jah! Get up, stand up! (jah, jah!) Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo!) Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!) Don’t give up the fight! (life is your right!) Get up, stand up! (so we can't give up the fight!) Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord!) Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on!) Don’t give up the fight! (yeah!) We sick an’ tired of-a your ism-skism game - Dyin’ ‘n’ goin to heaven in-a Jesus’ name, lord. We know when we understand: Almighty God is a living man. You can fool some people sometimes, But you can’t fool all the people all the time. So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ), We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!) So you better: Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!) Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights!) Get up, stand up! Don’t give up the fight! (don’t give it up, don’t give it up!) Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!) Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!) Get up, stand up! ( ... ) Don’t give up the fight! (get up, stand up!) Get up, stand up! ( ... ) Stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up! Don’t give up the fight! |
3. Who is Marley addressing to in the song?
4. What does he think about Heaven?
5. Read these lines:
You can fool some people sometimes, But you can’t fool all the people all the time. |
Marley is quoting Churchill’s famous words. What is their meaning?