World Cup Song

These are the words for the World Cup 2010 song. You download the video from YouTube or Itunes or watch the one I added in above. (mom and I figured out how to embed videos today!)

I am learning to sing the song and I want to learn to play it on my guitar. The singer, K'naan, is a Somali artist who lives now in Toronto, Canada. The football version of the song is called "Wavin' Flag: Celebration Mix." The original song is called "Wavin' Flag." The original song doesn't have anything to do with football but the World Cup has different words and the words are about the beautiful game....soccer, that is.

It goes like this:

Oooooooo, ooooooooo, oooooooooooo,

Oooooooo, oooooooo, oooooooooooo,

Give me freedom,

Give me fire,

Give me reason,

Take me higher,

See the champions,

Take the field now,

Unify us, make us feel proud,

In the streets our,

hands are lifted,

as we lose our,

inhibitions,

Celebration!

It surrounds us,

Every nation,

all around us,

Singing forever young,

Singing songs underneath the sun

Let's rejoice in the beautiful game

and together at the end of the day

we all sing:

When I get older, I will be stronger,

they'll call me freedom,

just like a wavin' flag.

And then it goes back...

and everybody will be singing it!

and we all will be singing it!