(CN.C.)When I get old er, I will be strong er.

They’ll call me free dom just like a wav in’ flag.

(C)When I get old er, (F)I will be strong er.

(Am)They’ll call me free dom (G)just like a wav in’ (C)flag.

And then it goes (F)back and then it goes (Am)back and then it goes (G)back, oh.

(C)Born to a throne, (G)strong er than Rome, (Am)a vio lent prone, (G)poor peo ple zone.

(F)But it’s my home, (C)all I have known, (Dm7)where I got grown, (G)streets we would roam.

(C)Out of the dark ness, (G)I came the far thest (Am)a mong the hard est sur (G)vi val.

(F)Learn from these streets, (C)it can be bleak, ac (Dm7)cept no de feat, sur (G)ren der, re treat.

(So we (C)strug gl ing,)

(G)fight ing to eat.

(And we (Am)won der ing)

(G)when we’ll be free.

So we (F)pa tient ly wait for (C)that fate ful day.

It’s (F)not far a way, but (G)for now we say: (C)When I get old er, (F)I will be strong er.

(Am)They’ll call me free dom (G)just like a wav in’ (C)flag.

And then it goes (F)back and then it goes (Am)back and then it goes (G)back, oh.

(C)So man y wars, (G)set tl ing scores, (Am)bring ing us prom is es, (G)leav ing us poor.

(F)I heard them say, (C)“Love is the way.” (Dm7)“Love is the an swer,” (G)that’s what they say.

But (C)look how they treat us, (G)make us be liev ers.

(Am)We fight their bat tles, (G)then they de ceive us.

(F)Try to con trol us, (C)they could n’t hold us ’cause (G)we just move for ward like Buf fa lo Sol diers.

(But we (Am)back and then it goes (G)back and then it goes...

(C)When I get old er, (F)I will be strong er.

(Am)They’ll call me free dom (G)just like a wav in’ (F)flag.

And then it goes back and then it goes (G)back and then it goes back, (Oh, and then it...

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(C)When I get old er, (F)I will be strong er.

(Am)They’ll call me free dom (G)just like a wav in’ (C)flag.

And then it goes (F)back and then it goes (Am)back and then it goes (G)back, and then it goes...

(C)When I get old er, (F)I will be strong er.

(Am)They’ll call me free dom (G)just like a wav in’ (C)flag.

And then it goes (F)back and then it goes (Am)back and then it goes (G)back, and then it goes...

(Am)back and then it goes (G)back, oh.

(G)When I get old er,

(G)when I get old er,

(C)I will be strong er

(F)just like a wav in’ (C)flag,

(G)just like a wav in’ (Am)flag,

(G)just like a wav in’ (F)flag,

(C)flag,

(Dm7)flag,

(F)just like a wav in’ (C)flag.