You've been good company Always by my side Appreciate your revelry, and all your southern pride It's time for me to holler back and leave you with this now Oh, it's time for revolution Oh, it's time for revolution Yea so rise up, rise up, rise up, rise up Oppression in a southern nation, but don't let it get you down The rebel soul seeks salvation, take it from the ground Tired words of a soldier who leaves his world behind Oh, it's time for revolution Oh, it's time for revolution Yea so rise up, rise up, rise up, rise up So sing a song to yesterday Take me back in time Back when lyrics meant something Before the music died Skidder Marshall Tucker Band, brothers and a CDB Oh, it's time for revolution Oh, it's time for revolution Yea so rise up, rise up, rise up, rise up