Courage To Resist - Free Chelsea Manning
Channel: TruthTroubadour
Date: 2015-05-05

This video is an update from the original 2009 "Courage To Resist" video about war crimes whistle-blower Bradley Manning. This 2015 version is gender updated to show respectful support for Chelsea Manning. She received a 35 year prison sentence for exposing U.S. war crimes, including the "collateral murder" video of U.S. helicopter pilots attacking a group of Iraqi citizens and journalists. Lyrics & Chords below! Sing out for Chelsea liberation! Support the organization called “Courage To Resist”! They work with “Chelsea Manning Support Network”. They support the troops who refuse to fight the Corporate Empire wars. They work with people in the military who come to awareness, conscience, whistle-blowing, and resistance actions in spite of being in servitude to a “mad cowboy” fascist culture. www.couragetoresist.org Prosecute War Criminals! Not Whistle-blowers! 

Courage To Resist - Free Chelsea Manning!  
Verse: D  B#m D B#m / D B#m G A 2X Refrain: Em  A D D 2X
Chorus: G D G D / G D Em A 2X / Refrain: Em A D D 2X
    
You know Private Bradley Manning was Chelsea Manning all along!
But because she had a conscience, she knew right from wrong!
She became a whistle-blower when she let her conscience speak!
By documenting war crimes and cover-ups to wikileaks!
Cause she had the courage to resist! 
Yes, she had the courage to resist!

Long live GI Resistance! To the lies and tyranny!
For with wisdom and persistence! In Truth we shall be free!
Long live People's insistence to be “all that we can be”!
Yes, and we can be together! Live in Peace and Harmony!
If we have the courage to resist! If we have the courage to resist!

Wikileaks released a video of a US murder spree!
With pilots joking and slaughtering civilian Iraqis!
Two news men died in the bullet spray! Two children were all chewed up!
Too many blood soaked scenes like that by men who are all screwed up!
Do we have the courage to resist? Yes! We have the courage to resist!  (Chorus)

Long live GI Resistance! To the lies and tyranny!
For with wisdom and persistence! In Truth we shall be free!
Long live People's insistence to be “all that we can be”!
Yes! And we can be together! Live in Peace and Harmony!
If we have the courage to resist! If we have the courage to resist!

They put young Chelsea in a prison! And they employed their cruel techniques!
If you care and you can reason, and if you dare to be one who speaks... 
You may be put in isolation by a system so rotten it reeks!
Of lies and exploitation! We need those whistle-blower leaks!
Cause they have the courage to resist! Yes, they have the courage to resist! (Chorus)

Well, we stood with you as “Bradley”! We're gonna stand with you as “Chelsea” too!
Just keep on doing the right thing! For all of us as well as you!
Cause the chat logs showed your motive was to let the people know
About the crimes the state made secret to make the corporate empire grow... 
But you had the courage to resist! Yes! You had the courage to resist! (Chorus)

Note: End last chorus with a slow repeat of this as a question, 
and also as an affirmation!
Do we have the courage to resist? Yes! We have the courage to resist!

Copyright Jan 12, 2011 Vic Sadot, BMI, Orbian Love Music (Chelsea update version Aug 31, 2013)

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