I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath, scared to rock the boat and make a mess.
So I sat qui et ly,
a greed po (F)lite ly.
I guess that I for got I had a choice.
I let you push me past the break ing point.
I stood for noth ing,
so I fell for (F)ev ’ry thing.
You (C)held me down, but I got up.
Al read y brush ing off the (Dm)dust.
You (Am)hear my voice, you hear that sound like thun der gon na (F)shake the ground.
You (C)held me down, but I got up.
Get read y ’cause I’ve had e (Dm)nough.
I (Am)see it all, I see it now.
I got the (F)eye of the ti ger, a fight er, danc ing through the fire.
’Cause I am a cham pion and you’re gon na hear me roar.
Loud er, loud er than a li on ’cause I am the cham pion and you’re gon na hear me roar,
oh,
oh.
You’re gon na hear me roar.
I Now I’m float in’ like a but ter fly.
I Sting in’ like a bee, I earned my stripes.
I went from ze ro
so to my own (F)he ’ry ro.
You (C)held me down, but I got up.
Al read y brush ing off the (Dm)dust.
You (Am)hear my voice, you hear that sound like thun der gon na (F)shake the ground.
You (C)held me down, but I got up.
Get read y ’cause I’ve had e (Dm)nough.
I (Am)see it all, I see it now.
I got the (F)eye of the ti ger, a fight er, danc ing through the fire.
’Cause I am a cham pion and you’re gon na hear me roar.
Loud er, loud er than a li on ’cause I am the cham pion and you’re gon na hear me roar,
oh,
oh.
You’re gon na hear me roar.
Oh,
oh.
You’re gon na hear me roar.
Roar,
oh,
roar,
oh,
roar.
I got the eye of the ti You’re gon na hear me roar.
This page shows “Roar” by Katy Perry in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of C at 160 BPM, a slightly more challenging arrangement — practice each phrase slowly first.