The Sixty Year Stretch

Intro

Yeah

Uh

One People

One Nation

One Destiny

Golden jubilee long gone

Diamond days coming on

Chorus

Diamond jubilee

Sixty years and counting

From the muddy rivers

To the pakaraima mountains

One People

One Nation

One Destiny

My Guyana

Sixty years

My Guyana

Home for you and me

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

Sixty years

Oh oh

Sixty years

Growing strong

Verse 1

Nineteen sixty six

Chain break

Freedom for the land

Green and gold and black

Waving from the palm of our hand

Cooperative republic

Started in seventy

First of its kind

Leaving the colonial ghost behind

Pre-Chorus

Through the sorrow

Through the bitter tears

Moving forward

Past the quiet fears

See the treasure

Underneath the trees

Hear the spirit

Moving on the breeze

Chorus

Diamond jubilee

Sixty years and counting

From the muddy rivers

To the pakaraima mountains

One People

One Nation

One Destiny

My Guyana

Sixty years

My Guyana

Home for you and me

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

Sixty years

Oh oh

Sixty years

Growing strong

Verse 2

Diversity

Resource

Pride

Abundance flowing wide

Stay positive

Perennial

Patriots

That is how we stand

United

Integrated

Free

That is how we plan

Pre-Chorus

Through the sorrow

Through the bitter tears

Moving forward

Past the quiet fears

See the treasure

Underneath the trees

Hear the spirit

Moving on the breeze

Chorus

Diamond jubilee

Sixty years and counting

From the muddy rivers

To the pakaraima mountains

One People

One Nation

One Destiny

My Guyana

Sixty years

My Guyana

Home for you and me

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

Sixty years

Oh oh

Sixty years

Growing strong