Not Gonna Give It Up

Not Gonna Give It up(Peter Tosh)1983 

INTO  C  F/C F/C F/C F  


    F    G     C       G 
I'm not gonna give it up 
        F   G 
I'm not goin' 
    
           

I'm not gonna give it up 
        F   G    
I'm not goin' 
           Am 
I will be fighting 
I've got to be fighting 
I will be fighting 
     F  
Till Africa      G 
And Africans are free 
C                     F            
I said that I been up there 
C                            F 
And I've seen poverty beyond compare 
C                               F 
I know slave drivers just don't care 
                G 
They just don't care 
Chorus 
C                    F 
Africa's the richest place 
C                      F   
But it has the poorest race 
C                   F 
And to me it's just a disgrace 
        G 
Just a disgrace 
C              F 
Africans don't wait too long 
C                      F         
We gotta fight 'cause it's not wrong 
C                     F 
Won't you join in and sing this song 
          G 
Sing this song 
Chorus 
C                  F 
To be poor it's a hurtful pain 

C                          F 
Livin' inna poverty it's a burning shame 
C                         F      
Help yourself 'cause man you're not lame 
             G 
You are not lame 
Chorus