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Slave Driver
She's Gone
Buffalo Soldier
Trench Town
Rebel Music
War
I Shot The Sheriff
Jammin'
Stir It Up
Get Up Stand Up
Could You Be Loved
No Woman No Cry
Redemption Song
Turn Your Lights Down Low
Ooh-ooh-oo-ooh. oo-oo-ooh! oo-oo-ooh.
Slave driver, the table is turn;
(catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn, now. (catch a fire)
Slave driver,
the table is turn; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire: gonna get burn. (catch a fire) wo, now!
Ev'rytime I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the
slave ship,
How they brutalize the very souls.
Today they say that we are
free,
Only to be chained in poverty.
Good god, I think it's illiteracy;
It's only
a machine that makes money.
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all. ooh-ooh-oo-
ooh.
Slave driver, uh! the table is turn, baby, now; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire,
so you can get burn, baby, now. (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all;
(catch a fire)
Catch a fire: so you can get burn, now. (catch a fire)
Ev'rytime I
hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How
they brutalize the very soul.
O god, have mercy on our souls!
Oh, slave driver,
the table is turn, y'all; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn. (catch a
fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire ...
/fadeout/
Bob Marley Lyrics
My woman is gone (woman is gone), my woman is gone (woman is
gone).
She had left me a note hanging on my door:
She say she couldn't take it,
she couldn't take any more.
The pressure around me - just couldn't see;
She felt like
a prisoner who needs to be free.
Fools have tried, yeah - wisemen have failed:
Oh,
listen to me, honey: life could never be another jail.
Still we know now: we'll never
see smoke without fire
And everyone you see has a heart desire.
She's gone (she's
gone), she's gone (she's gone),
She's gone (she's gone), she's gone, ye-ah!
Oh,
mocking bird, have you ever heard,
Words that I never heard?
Oh, mocking bird, have
you ever heard,
Words that I never heard?
She made it through the exit (she just
couldn't take it);
She made it through the exit (she just couldn't make it).
And, oh,
my children, if you see me cryin':
My woman is gone.
If you see me - if you see me -
if you see me -
If you see me cryin' -
If you see me - if you see me - if you see me
-
If you see me cryin':
She's gone (she's gone), she's gone (she's gone), she's
gone, ye-ah!
Oh, mocking bird, have you ever heard,
Words that I never heard?
Oh,
mocking bird, have you ever heard,
Words that I never heard?
She's gone (she's
gone), she's gone (she's gone), she's gone
(she's gone)
Bob Marley Lyrics
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,
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 'eck 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.
Dreadie, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy
yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy
yoy, yoy 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, dreadlock
rasta,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Driven from the mainland to the
heart of the caribbean.
Singing, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy,
yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Troddin' through san juan in the arms of america;
Troddin' through jamaica, a
buffalo soldier# -
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival:
Buffalo soldier,
dreadlock rasta.
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy! /fadeout/
Bob Marley Lyrics
(scoop, scoop, scoop, scoo-doo;
Scoop, scoop wa-doo.)
Up a cane river
to wash my dread;
Upon a rock I rest my head.
There I vision through the seas of
oppression, oh-oo-wo!
Don't make my life a prison.
We come from trench town,
trench town (trenchtown) -
Most of them come from trench town.
We free the people
with music (sweet music);
Can we free the people with music (sweet music)?
Can we
free our people with music? - with music,
With music, oh music!
Oh-y, my
head,
In desolate places we'll find our bread,
And everyone see what's taking place,
oh-oo-wo! -
Another page in history.
We come from trench town,
Come from
trench town;
We come from trench town.
Lord we free the people with music (sweet
music);
We free the people with music (sweet music);
We free our people with
music,
With music, oh music (oh music)!
They say it's hard to speak;
They feel
so strong to say we are weak;
But through the eyes the love of our people, oh-oo-wo!
They've got to repay.
We come from (trenchtown) trench town;
We come from
(trenchtown) trench town;
Trench - trench town (trenchtown).
They say, can anything
good come out of trench town?
(trench - trenchtown)
That's what they say,
(trenchtown); (trench - trenchtown)
Say (trench - trenchtown) we're the underprivileged
people,
So (trenchtown) they keep us in chains:
Pay (trench - trenchtown) - pay - pay
tribute to - (trenchtown).
We come from (trench - trenchtown);
We come from (trench -
trenchtown);
Just because we come from trench town.
Not because we come from trench
town;
Just because we come from (trenchtown). /fadeout/
Bob Marley Lyrics
I, rebel music
I, rebel music
Why can't we roam this open
country
Oh why can't we be what we want to be
We want to be free
3 o'clock -
roadblock, curfew
And I've got to throw away
Yes I've got to throw away
Yes I've
got to throw away
My little herb stalk
I, rebel music
I, rebel
music
Take my soul and suss me out
Check my life if I am in doubt
3 o'clock -
roadblock
And hey mr. cop, ain't got no
(what you say down there)
Ain't got no
birth certificate on me now
I, rebel music
I, rebel music
Take my soul and
suss me out
Check my life if I am in doubt
3 o'clock - roadblock
And hey mr. cop,
ain't got no
(what you say down there)
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now.
Bob Marley Lyrics
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 colour of a man's skin
Is of no more
significance than the colour 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 day
The 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/
Bob Marley Lyrics
(I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! oh!
I shot
the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy, ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.)
Yeah! all around in my
home town,
They're tryin' to track me down;
They say they want to bring me in
guilty
For the killing of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I
say:
Oh, now, now. oh!
(I shot the sheriff.) - the sheriff.
(but I swear it
was in selfdefence.)
Oh, no! (ooh, ooh, oo-oh) yeah!
I say: I shot the sheriff
- oh, lord! -
(and they say it is a capital offence.)
Yeah! (ooh, ooh, oo-oh) yeah!
Sheriff john brown always hated me,
For what, I don't know:
Every time I
plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow -
He said kill them before they
grow.
And so:
Read it in the news:
(I shot the sheriff.) oh, lord!
(but I
swear it was in self-defence.)
Where was the deputy? (oo-oo-oh)
I say: I shot the
sheriff,
But I swear it was in selfdefence. (oo-oh) yeah!
Freedom came my way one
day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw sheriff john
brown
Aiming to shoot me down,
So I shot - I shot - I shot him down and I say:
If
I am guilty I will pay.
(I shot the sheriff,)
But I say (but I didn't shoot no
deputy),
I didn't shoot no deputy (oh, no-oh), oh no!
(I shot the sheriff.) i
did!
But I didn't shoot no deputy. oh! (oo-oo-ooh)
Reflexes had got the better of
me
And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket a-go a well,
One day the bottom
a-go drop out,
One day the bottom a-go drop out.
I say:
I - I - I - I shot the
sheriff.
Lord, I didn't shot the deputy. yeah!
I - I (shot the sheriff) -
But I
didn't shoot no deputy, yeah! no, yeah!
Bob Marley Lyrics
Ooh, yeah! all right!
We're jammin':
I wanna jam it wid you.
We're
jammin', jammin',
And I hope you like jammin', too.
Ain't no rules, ain't no vow,
we can do it anyhow:
I'n'i will see you through,
'cos everyday we pay the price with
a little sacrifice,
Jammin' till the jam is through.
We're jammin' -
To think
that jammin' was a thing of the past;
We're jammin',
And I hope this jam is gonna
last.
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor we won't bow;
Neither can be
bought nor sold.
We all defend the right; jah - jah children must unite:
Your life is
worth much more than gold.
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin')
And we're
jammin' in the name of the lord;
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin'),
We're
jammin' right straight from yah.
Yeh! holy mount zion;
Holy mount zion:
Jah
sitteth in mount zion
And rules all creation.
Yeah, we're - we're jammin'
(wotcha-wa),
Wotcha-wa-wa-wa, we're jammin' (wotcha-wa),
See, I wanna jam it wid
you
We're jammin' (jammin', jammin', jammin')
I'm jammed: I hope you're jammin',
too.
Jam's about my pride and truth I cannot hide
To keep you satisfied.
True
love that now exist is the love I can't resist,
So jam by my side.
We're jammin'
(jammin', jammin', jammin'), yeah-eah-eah!
I wanna jam it wid you.
We're jammin',
we're jammin', we're jammin', we're jammin',
We're jammin', we're jammin', we're
jammin', we're jammin';
Hope you like jammin', too.
We're jammin', we're jammin'
(jammin'),
We're jammin', we're jammin' (jammin').
I wanna (I wanna jam it wid you) -
I wanna -
I wanna jam wid you now.
Jammin', jammin' (hope you like jammin'
too).
Eh-eh! I hope you like jammin', I hope you like jammin',
'cause (I wanna jam it
wid you). I wanna ... wid you.
I like - I hope you - I hope you like jammin', too.
I
wanna jam it;
I wanna jam it.
Bob Marley Lyrics
Stir it up; little darlin', stir it up. come on, baby.
Come on and stir
it up: little darlin', stir it up. o-oh!
It's been a long, long time, yeah!
(stir
it, stir it, stir it together)
Since I got you on my mind. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) oh-oh!
Now you are here (stir it, stir it, stir it together), I said,
It's so
clear
There's so much we could do, baby, (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Just me and
you.
Come on and stir it up; ..., little darlin'!
Stir it up; come on, baby!
Come on and stir it up, yeah!
Little darlin', stir it up! o-oh!
I'll push the
wood (stir it, stir it, stir it together),
Then I blaze ya fire;
Then I'll satisfy
your heart's desire. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Said, I stir it every (stir it, stir it, stir it
together),
Every minute:
All you got to do, baby, (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Is keep it in,
eh!
(stir it up) oh, little darlin',
Stir it up; ..., baby!
Come on and stir
it up, oh-oh-oh!
Little darlin', stir it up! wo-oh! mm, now, now.
Quench me when
I'm thirsty;
Come on and cool me down, baby, when I'm hot. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Your
recipe is, - darlin' - is so tasty,
When you show and stir your pot. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
So: stir it up, oh!
Little darlin', stir it up; wo, now!
Come on and stir it
up, oh-ah!
Little darlin', stir it up!
---
/guitar solo/
---
Oh, little
darlin', stir it up. come on, babe!
Come on and stir it up, wo-o-a!
Little darlin',
stir it up! stick with me, baby!
Come on, come on and stir it up, oh-oh!
Little
darlin', stir it up. /fadeout/
Bob Marley Lyrics
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!
Preacherman, 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!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up,
stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get
up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
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!
Get up, stand up! (jah, jah!)
Stand
up for your rights! (oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Don't give up
the fight! (life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (so we can't give up the
fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord!)
Get up, stand up! (keep on
struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (yeah!)
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!)
So you better:
Get
up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our
rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (don't give it up, don't give it
up!)
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand
up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (get up, stand up!)
Get
up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up
the fight! /fadeout/
Bob Marley Lyrics
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, wo now! - and be loved?
(the road of life is
rocky and you may stumble too,
So while you point your fingers someone else is judging
you)
Love your brotherman!
(could you be - could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be - could you be
loved?
Could you be - could you be loved? )
Don't let them change ya, oh! -
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, wo now! - 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/
Bob Marley Lyrics
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry;
No,
woman, no cry.
Said - said - said: I remember when we used to sit
In the
government yard in trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites
As they would mingle
with the good people we meet.
Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've lost
Along
the way.
In this great future, you can't forget your past;
So dry your tears, I
seh.
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
'ere, little darlin', don't shed no
tears:
No, woman, no cry.
Said - said - said: I remember when-a we used to
sit
In the government yard in trenchtown.
And then georgie would make the fire
lights,
As it was logwood burnin' through the nights.
Then we would cook cornmeal
porridge,
Of which I'll share with you;
My feet is my only carriage,
So I've got
to push on through.
But while I'm gone, I mean:
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's
gonna be all right!
I said, everything's gonna be all right-a!
Everything's gonna be
all right!
Everything's gonna be all right, now!
Everything's gonna be all right!
So, woman, no cry;
No - no, woman - woman, no cry.
Woman, little sister,
don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry.
I remember when we used to sit
In the
government yard in trenchtown.
And then georgie would make the fire lights,
As it was
logwood burnin' through the nights.
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge,
Of which
I'll share with you;
My feet is my only carriage,
So I've got to push on
through.
But while I'm gone:
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
Woman,
little darlin', say don't shed no tears;
No, woman, no cry.
Eh! (little darlin',
don't shed no tears!
No, woman, no cry.
Little sister, don't shed no tears!
No,
woman, no cry.)
Bob Marley Lyrics
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 'and
of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to
sing
These songs of freedom? -
'cause all I ever have:
Redemption
songs;
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 fulfil de book.
Won't you
help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'cause all I ever have:
Redemption
songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
---
/guitar break/
---
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our
mind.
Wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
'cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the
time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes,
some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfil de book.
Won't you help to
sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
'cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I
ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
Bob Marley Lyrics
Turn your lights down low
And pull your window curtains;
Oh, let jah
moon come shining in -
Into our life again,
Sayin': ooh, it's been a long, long
(long, long, long, long) time;
I kept this message for you, girl,
But it seems I was
never on time;
Still I wanna get through to you, girlie,
On time - on time.
I want
to give you some love (good, good lovin');
I want to give you some good, good lovin'
(good, good lovin').
Oh, I - oh, I - oh, i,
Say, I want to give you some good, good
lovin' (good, good lovin'):
Turn your lights down low;
Never try to resist, oh no!
Oh, let my love come tumbling in -
Into our life again,
Sayin': ooh, I love ya!
And I want you to know right now,
I love ya!
And I want you to know right
now,
'cause I - that I -
I want to give you some love, oh-ooh!
I want to give you
some good, good lovin';
Oh, I - I want to give you some love;
Sayin': I want to give
you some good, good lovin':
Turn your lights down low, wo-oh!
Never - never try to
resist, oh no!
Ooh, let my love - ooh, let my love come tumbling in -
Into our life
again.
Oh, I want to give you some good, good lovin' (good, good lovin').
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