Am
(Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!
Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)
Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Am
How can you be sitting there
F
Telling me that you care
     Am
That you care?
Am
When every time I look around
     F
The people suffer in the suffering
     Am
In everyway, in everywhere
  F       Am          G
Say: na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
  Am
Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors!

      Am
I tell you what: some people got everything
Am
Some people got nothing
Am
Some people got hopes and dreams
Am
Some people got ways and means
F       Am       G
Na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
      Am
Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors!
           Am
Yes, were the survivors, like daniel out of the lions den
Am
(Black survivors) survivors, survivors!

    C
So I idren, I sistren
 F      Em
A-which way will we choose?
    Am
We better hurry; oh, hurry; oh, hurry; wo, now!
F         G
Cause we got no time to lose

Am
Some people got facts and claims
Am
Some people got pride and shame
Am
Some people got the plots and schemes
Am
Some people got no aim it seems!
F     Am        G
Na-na-na-na-na, na-na, na!
      Am
Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors!
                  Am
Tell you what: were the survivors, yeah! - the black survivors, yeah!
      Am
Were the survivors, like shadrach, meshach and abednego (black survivors)
Am
Thrown in the fire, but-a never get burn

C
So I idren, i-sistren
F                Em
The preaching and talkin is done
Am
Weve gotta live up, wo now, wo now!
F          G
Cause the fathers time has come
Am
Some people put the best outside
Am
Some people keep the best inside
Am
Some people cant stand up strong
Am
Some people won't wait for long

F      Am      G
Na-na-na na, na-na-na!
Am
Were the survivors
Am
In this age of technological inhumanity (black survival)
Am
Scientific atrocity (survivors)
Am
Atomic misphilosophy (black survival)
Am
Nuclear misenergy (survivors)
Am
Its a world that forces lifelong insecurity (black survival)

F     Am       G
Na-na-na na, na-na-na!
Am
Were the survivors, yeah!
Am
Were the survivors!
Am
Yes, the black survivors!
Am
Were the survivors
Am
A good man is never honoured (survivors)
Am
In his own yountry (black survival)
Am
Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors)
Am
Nothing change, nothing strange (black survivors)
Am
We got to survive, yall! (survivors)