WAKE -Coming in From the Cold -Buffalo Soldier -No Woman No Cry -Wake Up And Live -Three Little Birds
CHAOS -Rat Race -Concrete Jungle -So Much Trouble In The World -Natural Mystic
LOVE -Could You Be Loved -Stir It Up -No More Trouble -Waiting In Vain -Is This Love – One Love / People Get Ready
FIGHT -Get Up, Stand Up -I shot the Sheriff -Burnin’ And Lootin’ -Them Belly Full (But We Hungry ) -War -The Heathen -Ride Natty Ride -Zimbabwe
UNITY -Exodus -One Love/People Get Ready -Redemption Song
Buffalo Soldier
Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock Rasta, There was a Buffalo Soldier, In the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America, Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
I mean it, when I analyze the stench, To me, it makes a lot of sense, How the dreadlock Rasta was the Buffalo Soldier OOOO and AAAAAA
And he was taken from Africa, brought to America, Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Said he was a
Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock Rasta
Buffalo Soldier, in the heart of America
If you know your history, Then you would know where you coming from, Then you wouldn’t have to ask me, Who the heck do I think I am
I’m just a
Buffalo Soldier In the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Said he was
fighting on arrival, Fighting for survival
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier
Win the war for America
woe yoy yoy, woe yoy yoy, yoy
woe yoy yoy, woe yoy yoy yoy
Buffalo Soldier troddin’ through the land, wo-ho-ooh!
Said he wanna ran, then you wanna hand
Troddin’ through the land, yea-hea, yea-ea
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier win the war for America
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlocked Rasta
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Driven from the mainland to the heart of the Caribbean
Troddin’ through San Juan in the arms of America
Troddin’ through Jamaica, a Buffalo Soldier –
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlocked Rasta
Coming In From The Cold
In this life, in this life, in this life, In this, oh sweet life we’re
We’re coming in from the cold
We’re coming in coming in 4x
Coming in from the cold
It’s you – it’s you – it’s you I’m talkin’ to
Well, you it’s you
you it’s you
you I’m talking to now.
Why do you look so sad and forsaken?
When one door is closed, don’t you know other is open?
Would you let the system make you kill your brotherman?
No, Dread, no! No, no, no, no, no, no!
Would you make the system make you kill your brotherman?
Would you make the system get on top of your head again?
Well, the biggest man you ever did see was – was just a baby.
Don’t you know: When one door is closed – when one door is closed, many more is open?
Concrete Jungle
No sun will shine in my day today (no sun will shine)
The high yellow moon won’t come out to play (that high yellow moon won’t come out to play)
I said (darkness) darkness (has come and covered my light) has covered my light,
(And has changed)
And has changed (my day into night) my day into night, yeah.
Where is the love to be found? (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Won’t someone tell me ’cause
Life (sweet life) must be (got to be) somewhere to be found (out there somewhere out there for me)
Instead of concrete jungle (Jungle, jungle, jungle!),
I said where the living is hardest (concrete jungle!).
Concrete jungle (jungle, jungle, jungle)
Man, you got to do your best (concrete jungle!)
Wo-ooh
No chains around my feet
But I’m not free
I know I am bounded in captivity; oh now
(Never known) Never known (what happiness is) what happiness is;
(Never known) I’ve never known (what sweet caress is) what sweet caress is yeah
Still, I’ll be always laughing like a clown; (oooh-oooh-oooh)
Oh someone help me ’cause I (sweet life) –
I’ve got to pick myself from off the ground (got to be, out there somewhere out there for me)
In this ya concrete jungle (Jungle, jungle, jungle!):
I said, what do you got for me (concrete jungle!) now?
Concrete jungle (jungle, jungle, jungle!), why won’t you let me be (concrete jungle!) now?
Ohhh yeah
[Guitar solo]
I said that life (sweet life) must be (got to be) somewhere to be found (out there somewhere for me)
Oh, instead: concrete jungle (jungle!) – collusion (concrete jungle!) –
Confusion (confusion). Eh!
Concrete jungle (jungle!): we’ve made it, We’ve got it.
In Concrete jungle (concrete jungle!), now. Eh!
Concrete jungle (jungle, jungle, jungle!).
What, what do you got for me (jungle, jungle!) now? [fadeout]
Could You Be Loved
Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved and be loved?
Don’t let them fool ya,
Or even try to school ya! Oh, no!
We’ve got a mind of our own,
So go to hell if what you’re thinking is not right!
Love would never leave us alone,
A-yin the darkness there must come out to light
Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved, and be loved?
Duo
(The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
So while you point your fingers someone else is judging you)
Love your brother-man!
(Could you be – could you be – could you be loved? 2X
Don’t let them change ya, oh! Skababut
Or even rearrange ya! Oh, no!
We’ve got a life to live.
They say: only – only –
Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive –
Stay alive! Eh!
Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved, woah yeah! – and be loved?
(You ain’t gonna miss your water until your well runs dry;
No matter how you treat him, the man will never be satisfied.)
Say something! (Could you be – could you be – could you be loved?
Could you be – could you be loved?)
Say something! Say something!
(Could you be – could you be – could you be loved?)
Say something! Could you be – could you be loved?
Say something! Say something! (Say something!)
Say something! Say something! (Could you be loved?)
Say something! Say something! Reggae, reggae!
Say something! Rockers, rockers!
Say something! Reggae, reggae!
Say something! Rockers, rockers!
Say something! (Could you be loved?)
Say something! Uh!
Say something! Come on!
Say something! (Could you be – could you be – could you be loved?)
Say something! (Could you be – could you be loved?)
Say something! (Could you be – could you be – could you be loved?)
Say something! (Could you be – could you be loved?) [fadeout]
Exodus
Exodus: Movement of Jah people!
Men and people will fight ya down (Tell me why!)
When ya see Jah light. (Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
Let me tell you if you’re not wrong; (Then, why?)
Everything is all right.
So we gonna walk – all right! –
through de roads of creation:
We the generation (Tell me why!)
Trod through great tribulation
Open your eyes
and look within
Are you satisfied
with the life you’re living
We know where we’re going
We know where we’re from.
We’re leaving Babylon,
We’re going to our Father land
–
Movement of Jah people!
Send us another brother Moses!
From across the Red Sea!
Move!
Jah come to break downpression,
Rule equality
Wipe away transgression,
Set the captives free
Get up, Stand Up
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don’t give up the fight!
Preacher-man, don’t tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don’t know
What life is really worth.
It’s not all that glitters is gold;
‘Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!
Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!
We sick an’ tired of-a your ism-skism game –
Dyin’ ‘n’ goin’ to heaven in-a Jesus’ name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can’t fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Iron Lion Zion
I am on the rock and then I check a stock
I have to run like a fugitive to save the life I live
I’m gonna be Iron like a Lion in Zion (repeat)
Iron Lion Zion
I’m on the run but I ain’t got no gun
See they want to be the star
So they fighting tribal war
And they saying Iron like a Lion in Zion
Iron like a Lion in Zion,
Iron Lion Zion
I’m on the rock, (running and you running)
I take a stock, (running like a fugitive)
I had to run like a fugitive just to save the life I live
I’m gonna be Iron like a Lion in Zion (repeat)
Iron Lion Zion, Iron Lion Zion, Iron Lion Zion
Iron like a Lion in Zion, Iron like a Lion in Zion
Iron like a Lion in Zion
Is this Love
I wanna love you and treat you right
I wanna love you every day and every night
We’ll be together with a roof right over our heads
We’ll share the shelter of my single bed
We’ll share the same room, yeah! – for Jah provide the bread
Is this love
is this love – is this love Is this love that I’m feelin’?
Is this love – is this love – is this love Is this love that I’m feelin’?
I wanna know – wanna know – wanna know now!
I got to know – got to know – got to know now!
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I – I’m willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
I wanna love you – I wanna love and treat – love and treat you right
I wanna love you every day and every night
We’ll be together, yeah! – with a roof right over our heads
We’ll share the shelter, yeah, oh now! – of my single bed
We’ll share the same room, yeah! – for Jah provide the bread
Natural Mystic
There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air
If you listen carefully now you will hear
This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die
Don’t ask me why, things are not the way they used to be
I won’t tell no lie, one and all got to face reality now
Though I try to find the answer, to all the questions they ask
Though I know it’s impossible, to go living through the past
Don’t tell no lie
There’s a natural mystic, blowing through the air
Can’t keep them down, if you listen carefully now you will hear
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
No More Trouble
We don’t need no more trouble
Make love and not war! ‘Cause we don’t need no trouble.
What we need is love Love, To guide and protect us on On
If your up look down from above Above, Help the weak if you are strong
We don’t need no trouble; What we need is love. What we need is love sweet love
Seek happiness! Sad enough without your woes
Come on, you all and speak of love. Sad enough without your foes
No Women No Cry
No woman no cry, no woman no cry
I remember when a we used to sit, In a government yard in Trenchtown
Oba – observing the hypocrites ,As they would Mingle with the good people we meet
Good friends we have, good friends we have lost, Along the way
In this great future, you can’t forget your past; So dry your tears, I say
No woman no cry, no woman no cry
Dear, little darlin’ Don’t shed no tears
No woman no cry, no woman no cry
Said I remember when we used to sit, in the government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light, as it was logwood burnin’ through the night
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge, of which I’ll share with you (ooh)
My feet is my only carriage So I’ve got to push on through
But while I’m gone
Everything is gonna be alright
{Layers
- Everything is gonna be alright
- No Women No Cry}
One Love / People Get Ready
One love one heart, lets get together and feel alright
One love one heart, give thanks and praise to the lord and i will feel alright.
Hear the children cryin’ One Love Hear the children cryin’ One Heart
Sayin’: give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Sayin’: let’s get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
Let them all pass all their dirty remarks One Love!
There is one question I’d really love to ask One Heart!
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?
One Love What about the one heart? One Heart
What about – ? Let’s get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning One Love!
So shall it be in the end One Heart!
Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armageddon One Love
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom One Song
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation
Sayin’: One Love What about the One Heart? One Heart
What about the – ? Let’s get together and feel all right
I’m pleadin’ to mankind! One Love!
Oh, Lord! One Heart Wo-ooh!
Rat Race
Uh! Ya too rude!
Uh! Eh! What a rat race!
Oh, what a rat race!
Oh, what a rat race!
Oh, what a rat race!
This is the rat race! Rat race! (Rat race!)
Some a lawful, some a bastard, some a jacket:
Oh, what a rat race, yeah! Rat race!
Some a gorgon-a, some a hooligan-a, some a guine-gog-a
In this ‘ere rat race, yeah!
Rat race!
I’m singin’ that
When the cat’s away,
The mice will play.
Political voilence fill ya city, ye-ah!
Don’t involve Rasta in your say say;
Rasta don’t work for no C.I.A.
Rat race, rat race, rat race! Rat race, I’m sayin’:
When you think is peace and safety:
A sudden destruction.
Collective security for surety, ye-ah!
Don’t forget your history;
Know your destiny:
In the abundance of water,
The fool is thirsty.
Rat race, rat race, rat race!
Rat race!
Oh, it’s a disgrace
To see the human-race
In a rat race, rat race!
You got the horse race;
You got the dog race;
You got the human-race;
But this is a rat race, rat race!
Redemption Song
Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly
{Percussion Break}
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
‘Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look? Ooh
Some say it’s just a part of it
We’ve got to fulfill the Book
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Ride Natty Ride
Ooh yeah!
Dready got a job to do
And he’s got to fulfill that mission
To see his hurt will be their greatest ambition
But-a we will survive in this world of competition
‘Cause no matter what they do
Natty keep on comin’through,
And no matter what they say-ay-ay-ay,
Natty de deh every day
Natty Dread rides again,
Through the mystics of tomorrow,
Natty Dread rides again:
Have no fear, have no sorrow, yeah!
All and all you see but one
Is to fight against Rastaman.
So they build their world in great confusion
To force on us the devil’s illusion.
But the stone that the builder refuse
Shall be the head cornerstone,
And no matter what game they play,
Eh, we got something they could never take away;
We got something they could never take away:
And it’s the fire (fire) 2x
That’s burning down everything:
Feel that fire (fire) 2x
Only the birds have their wings, yeah!
No time to be deceived.
Oh, brothers, you should know and not believe:
Jah say this judgement – it could never be with water,
No water could put out this fire (fire) 4x
, a yaga y’all! Ride, Natty, ride!
Go deh, Dready, go deh,
‘Cause now the fire is out of control,
Panic in the city, wicked weeping for their gold!
Everywhere this fiyah is burning,
Destroying and melting their gold,
Destroying and waisting their souls.
Go ride, Natty, ride!
Go deh, Dready! Go deh!
Tell you what: now the people gather on the beach
And the leader try to make a speech,
But the Dreadies understandin’ that it’s too late:
Fire is burning;
Man, pull your own weight!
Fire is burning;
Man, pull your own weight!
Natty Dread rides again (Natty Dread rides again);
And me say, Go deh, Dready! Go deh! (go deh, go deh)
Oh ride, Natty, ride! (Dread rides again)
And go deh, Dready!
(Go deh, go deh)
Ridin’ through the storm,
Riding through the calm (go deh, go deh).
Oh ride, Natty, ride!
Go deh, Dready, go deh!
So Much Trouble in the World
So much trouble in the world 2X
Bless my eyes this morning, Jah sun is on the rise once again
The way earthly thin’s are goin’, Anything can happen
You see men sailing on their ego trip, Blast off on their spaceship
A Million miles from reality: No care for you, no care for me
So much trouble in the world 2X
All you got to do: give a little
give a little (repeat)
So you think you’ve found the solution, But it’s just another illusion!
So before you check out this tide, Don’t leave another cornerstone
Standing there behind
We’ve got to face the day; Ooh-wee, come what may:
We the street people talkin’, Yeah, we the people strugglin’.
Now they sitting on a time bomb
Bomb-bomb-bomb! Bomb-bomb-bomb! (repeat)
Now I know the time has come:
What goes on up is coming on down
Goes around and comes around
So much trouble in the world 2X
Three Little Birds
Don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be alright
Singing’ don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be alright
Rise up this mornin’, smiled with the risin’ sun
Three little birds, pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs, of melodies pure and true
Saying’, this is my message to you
Waiting in Vain
1, 2, 3
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl
My heart says follow t’rough
But I know, now, that I’m way down on your line
But the waitin’ feel is fine
So don’t treat me like a puppet on a string
‘Cause I know I have to do my thing
Don’t talk to me as if you think I’m dumb
I wanna know when you’re gonna come – soon
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
‘Cause if summer is here
I’m still waiting there
Winter is here
And I’m still waiting there
[Guitar solo]
Like I said
It’s been three years since I’m knockin’ on your door
And I still can knock some more
Ooh girl, ooh girl, is it feasible?
I wanna know now, for I to knock some more
Ya see, in life I know there’s lots of grief
But your love is my relief
Tears in my eyes burn – tears in my eyes burn
While I’m waiting – while I’m waiting for my turn
See!
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love, oh!
I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna wait in vain
I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna wait in vain
No, I don’t wanna (I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna wait in vain)
No I – no I (I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t
Wanna – I don’t wanna wait in vain)
No, no-no, I, no, I (I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna wait in vain)
It’s your love that I’m waiting on (I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna wait in vain)
It’s me love that you’re running from
It’s your love that I’m waiting on (I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna – I don’t wanna wait in vain)
It’s me love that you’re running from
Wake Up and Live
(All together now)
Wake up and live, y’all, Wake up and live!Wake up and live now! Wake up and live!
Life is one big road with lots of signs, So when you riding through the ruts, don’t you complicate your mindFlee from hate, mischief and jealousy! Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality, yeah!
Rise !!!!!ye mighty people
There’s work to be done,
So let’s do it-a little by little
Rise from your sleepless slumber! Yes, yeah! Yes, yeah!
We’re more than sand on the seashore, We’re more than numbers.
You see, one – one cocoa full a basket,Whey they use you live big today: tomorrow you buried in-a casket.
One – one cocoa full a basket, yeah, yes!Whey they use you live big today: tomorrow you bury in-a casket.
(Wake up and live!) (Wake up and live now!)(Wake up and live!) Break it down!
[Saxophone solo]
Life is one big road with lots of signs, yes!, So when you riding through the ruts, don’t you complicate your mind:Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy!, Don’t bury your thoughts; put your dream to reality, yeah!
War
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior, And another, Inferior, Is finally, And permanently, Discredited, And abandoned
Everywhere is war, Me say war
That until there no longer First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the color of a man’s skin Is of no more significance than the color of his eyes
Me say war
That until the basic human rights Are equally guaranteed to all Without regard to race
Dis a war
That until that dayThe dream of lasting peace
World citizenship Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued But never attained
Now everywhere is war – war
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes, That hold our brothers in Angola
In Mozambique, South Africa,Sub-human bondage, Have been toppled
Utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war
Me say war
War in the east
War in the west
War up north
War down south
War – war
Rumours of war
And until that day, The African continent, Will not know peace, We Africans will fight – we find it necessary
And we know we shall win, As we are confident
In the victory
Of good over evil
Good over evil, yeah
Good over evil
Good over evil, yeah
Good over evil
Good over evil, yeah! [fadeout]
Zimbabwe
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we’ll fight this little struggle,
‘Cause that’s the only way we can overcome our little trouble.
Brother, you’re right, you’re right,
You’re right, you’re right, you’re so right!
We gon’ fight we gon’ fight
We’ll have to fight we gon’ fight
We gonna fight we gon’ fight
fight(ing) for our rights!
Natty Dread it in-a Zimbabwe
Set it up in Zimbabwe
Mash it up-a in-a Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe
No more internal power struggle; We come together to overcome the little trouble.
Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary, ‘Cause I don’t want my people to be contrary.
Mash it up in-a Zimbabwe
Natty trash it in-a Zimbabwe
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
I’n’I a-liberate Zimbabwe.
To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyman chest, mm – there beats a heart.
So soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don’t want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.
Natty trash it in-a Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Mash it up in-a Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Natty dub it in-a Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
album: “Catch A Fire” (1973)
(as Bob Marley & The Wailers)
album: “Burnin'” (1973)
(as The Wailers)
album: “Natty Dread” (1974)
(as Bob Marley & The Wailers)
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
Rebel Music (3 O’Clock Roadblock)
album: “Rastaman Vibration” (1976)
(as Bob Marley & The Wailers)
album: “Exodus” (1977)
(as Bob Marley & The Wailers)
album: “Kaya” (1978)
(as Bob Marley & The Wailers)
(Bonus Track)
album: “Survival” (1979)
(as Bob Marley & The Wailers)
album: “Uprising” (1980)
(as Bob Marley & The Wailers)
compilation: “Chances Are” (1981)
album: “Confrontation” (1983)
(as Bob Marley & The Wailers)
compilation: “There She Goes” (1986)
compilation: “Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On” (1995)
other songs:
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