VERSE 1 

E                                               D 
Once an honest man could go from sunrise to its set 
D                                                  E 
without encountering agents of his state or government. 
E                                                   D 
But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land, 
D                                              E 
brought on by the hollow men, who did not understand 
E                                                        D 
that for centuries our forefathers have fought and often died 
D                                                       E 
to keep themselves unto themselves, to fight the rising tide, 
E                                                       D 
and that if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state, 
D                                              E 
we enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape. 

BRIDGE 

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When they raise their hands up our lives to possess, 
F#                    B       E             B        A 
to know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist. 

VERSE 2 

E                              D 
Watt Tyler led the people in 1381 
D                                               E 
to meet the king at Smithfield and issue this demand: 
E                                                    D 
that Winchester’s should be the only law across the land, 
D                                                     E 
the law of old King Alfred's time, of free and honest men. 
E                                                             D 
Because the people then they understood what we have since forgot: 
D                                               E 
that governments will only work for its own benefit. 
E                                                   D 
And I’d rather stand up naked against the elements alone 
D                                                 E 
than give the hollow men the right to enter in my home. 

BRIDGE 

F#                   B         E     B       
When they raise their hands up our lives to possess, 
F#                     B     E              B        A 
to know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist. 

SOLO: 
  
E D E D  
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[Refrão]
 

E                            D         A        E 
Stand up sons of liberty and fight for what you own. 
E                            D            A        E 
Stand up sons of liberty and fight, fight for your homes. 



E                                                          D 
So if ever a man should ask you for your business, or your name, 
D                                                           E 
tell him to go and fuck himself, tell his friends to do the same. 
E                                                              D 
Because a man who'd trade his liberty for a safe and dreamless sleep 
D                                                      E 
doesn't deserve the both of them, and neither shall he keep.