Avril Lavigne feat. Other Canadian artists such as
K'naan, Nelly Furtado, Sam Roberts,Pierre Bouvier, Tyler Connolly, Kardinal Offishall, Jully
Black, LIGHTS, Deryck Whibley, Serena Ryder, Jacob Hoggard, Emily Haines, Hawksley Workman,
Drake, Chin Injeti, Ima, Pierre Lapointe, Elisapie Isaac, Esthero, Corb Lund, Fefe Dobson, Nikki
Yanofsky, Matt Mays, Justin Nozuka, Mad Child and Justin Bieber.
Arkells, Lamar Ashe, Broken Social Scene, Torquil Campbell, Canadian Tenors, Aion Clarke, City
and Colour, Tom Cochrane, Jim Cuddy, Jim Creeggan, Kathleen Edwards, Dave Faber, Jessie Farrell,
Colin James, Pat Kordyback, Brandon Lehti, Colin MacDonald, Jay Malinowski, Stacey McKitrick,
Suzie McNeil, Stephan Moccio, Kevin Parent, Josh Ramsay, Red 1, Hayley Sales, James Shaw and
Shiloh.
Waving Flag
Young Artists For Haiti
2010
Here's the video link if you want to watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB7L1BIDELc
Key: C then D
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords Used:
C — x32010
G/B — x2x033
Am — x02210
G — 320003
F — 133211
C/E — 032xxx
Dm — xx0231
D — xx0232
Bm — x24432
A — x02220
Intro: C—F—Am—G—
K'naan Speaks
C F
It started out as my song
Am G
but then it became their song
C
all of these artists' song
F Am G
and it's going to be haiti's song
Chorus 1:
C
When I get older
F
I will be stronger
Am
They'll call me freedom
G
just like a Waving Flag
Verse 1:
K'naan:
C G/B
Born to a throne older than Rome
Am G
a Violent prone poor people zone
Nelly Furtado:
F C/E
But it's my home all I have known
Sam Roberts:
Dm G
Where I got grown but now it's gone
Avril Lavigne:
C G/B
out of the darkness and came it card fest
Am G
threatening my buried survival
Pierre Bouvier
F C/E
Fractured from streets and broke all my dreams
Tyler Connolly:
Dm G
now feels like defeat, don't red should retreat,
Refrain 1:
C G/B
So we struggling fighting to eat and
Am G
We wondering when we'll be free
F C/E
we cannot wait for some fateful day
Dm G
It's too far away so right now we say
Chorus 2:
C F
When I get older I will be stronger
Am G C
They'll call me freedom,just like a Waving flag
F Am
And then it goes back and then it goes back
G
And then it goes back oh oh oh
Verse 2:
Lights:
C G/B
So many wars settling scores,
Deryck Whibley:
Am G
All out we've been through and now there is more
Serena Ryder:
F C/E
I heard them say love is the way
Jacob Hoggard:
Dm G
Love is the answer that's what they say
Emily Haines:
C G/B
But we're not just dreamers of broken down river
Hawksley Workman:
Am G
How can we reach us if they're——— too routine far
Drake:
F C/E Dm
This can't control us no they couldn't hold us down
Chin Injeti:
G
We may pick it up even though we're still
Refrain 2:
C G/B
So we struggling no folder i should eat
Am G
We wondering but tounge for redeem
F C/E
we patiently wait for some other day
Dm G
It's too far away so right now we say
(Repeat Chorus 2 twice)
Bridge:
Canadian Rapper named Mad Child:
C
how can do the media stop covering
G/B
it's little help from the government
Am
we forget about the people who is struggling
G
I'm so nevrous and awful now and then and
F C/E
no see we don't have to wait for things
Dm
to break apart if you weren't involve
G
before it's not too late to start
C
You probably think that it's
G/B
too far to even have to care
Am G
well take a look the way you lived
what if it happened there
F C/E
You have to know that urge to make
Dm
a change lives but then we can be
G
a reason that they see the blacks rise again
(Repeat Chorus 2 sang by Stacey Mckitrick)
Chorus 3: Modulate from C to D
D G
When I get older I will be stronger
Bm A D
They'll call me freedom, just like a Waving flag
G Bm
And then it goes back and then it goes back
A
And then it goes back oh oh oh
(Repeat)
Outro:
Justin Bieber:
D G
When I get older
Bm A
When I get older
D G
I will be stronger
Bm A D(hold)
Just like the waving flag