NATURAL MYSTIC
CRAZY BALDHEADS
SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD
EASY SKANKING
ROOTS, ROCK, REGGAE
KEEP ON MOVING
ONE DROP
PIMPERS PARADISE
SUN IS SHINING
WHO THE CAP FIT
WAR
AFRICA UNITE
NATURAL MYSTIC
TIME WILL TELL
TRENCH TOWN ROCK
Bob Marley was a hero figure, in the classic mythological sense. From humble beginnings, with his talent and religious belief his only weapons, the Jamaican recording artist applied himself unstintingly to spreading his prophetic musical message. His departure from this planet came at a point when his vision of One World, One Love - inspired by his belief in Rastafarianism - was beginning in some quarters to be heard and felt. For example, the Bob Marley And The Wailers 1980 tour attracted the largest audiences at that time for any musical act in Europe.
Bob Marley's story is that of an archetype, which is why it continues to have such a powerful and ever-growing resonance: it embodies, among other themes, political repression, metaphysical and and artistic insights, gangland warfare and various periods in a mystical widemess. It is no surprise that Bob Marley now enjoys an icon-like status more akin to that of the rebel myth of Che Guevara than to that of a pop star. And his audience continues to widen: to westerners Bob's apocalyptic thruth prove inspirational and life-changing; in the Third World his impact is similar, except that it goes further. Not just among Jamaicans, but also among the Hopi Indians of New Mexico and the Maoris of New Zealand, in Indonesia, in India, even - especially - in those parts of West Africa from which slaves were plucked and taken to the New World, Bob Marley is seen as the Redeemer figure returning to lead this planet out of confusion. Some will come out and say it directly: that Bob Marley is reincarnation of Jesus Christ long awaited by much of the world. In such an interpretation of his life, the cancer that killed Bob Marley is inevitably described as a modern version of a crucifixion.
In the clear Jamaican sunlight you can pick out the component parts of which the myth of Bob Marley is comprised: the sadness, the love, the understanding, the Godgiven talent. Those are facts. And although it is sometimes said that there are no facts in Jamaica, there is one more thing of which we can be certain: that Bob Marley never once wrote a bad song. He left behind the most remarkable body of recorded work. "The reservoir of music he has left behind is like an encyclopaedia," says Judy Mowatt of the I-Threes, "When you need to refer to a certain situation of crisis, there will always be a Bob Marley song that will relate to it. Bob was a musical prophet."
The tiny Third World island of Jamaica has produced an artist who has transcended all categories, classes and creeds trough a combination of innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, the Natural Mystic, may yet prove to be the most significant musical artist of the twentieth century.
Chris Salewicz, co-author of Bob Marley:
Songs Of Freedom, published by Bloomsbury/Viking
CRAZY BALDHEADS
We gonna chase those crazy
Baldheads out of town
Chase those crazy baldheads
Out of town
I&I build a cabine
I&I plant the corn
Didn't my people before me
Slave for this country
Now you look me with a scorn
Then you eat up all my corn
We gonna chase those crazy baldheads
Chase them crasy
Chase them crasy baldheads out of town
Build your penitentiary, we build your schools
Brainwash education to make us the fools
Hate is your reward for our love
Telling us of your God above
We gonna chase those crazy
Chase those crasy bunkheads
Chase those crasy baldheads out of town
Here comes the conman
Coming with his con plan
We won't take no bribe, we got to stay alive
We gonna chase those crazy
Chase those crasy baldheads
Chase those crasy baldheads out of town
SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD
You see man sailing on their ego trips
So you think you have found a solution
Now they are sitting on a time bomb
Bless my eyes this morning
JAH sun is on the rise once again
The way earthly things are going
Anything can happen
Blast off on their spaceships
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me
So much troubles in the world (repeat)
All you've got to do is give a little
Give a little, give a little
One more time ye-a-h! ye-a-h!
But it's just another illusion
So before you check out your tide
Don't leave another cornerstone standing there behind
We have got to face the day, ooh we come what may
We the street people talking, we the people struggling
Now I know the time has come
What goes up must come down
Goes around comes around
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble, there is so much trouble
There is so much trouble
There is so much trouble in the world
There is so much trouble in the world
EASY SKANKING
Excuse me while I light my spliff
Take it easy, easy skanking (repeat)
You see we're taking it easy
Excuse me while I light my spliff
Take it easy, taking it easy
Tell you what herb for my wine
I'll take take it easy, taking it easy
Easy skanking, skanking it slow (repeat)
Good GOD I gotta take a lift
From reality I just can't drift
That's why I am staying with this riff
Got to take it easy, easy skanking
We taking it slow, taking it easy
Got to take it slow, so take it easy
Easy skanking, easy skanking
Oh take it easy, easy skanking
Good GOD I gotta take a lift
From reality I just can't drift
That's why I am staying with this riff
Got to take it easy, taking it slow
Take it easy, taking it easy
Skanky take it easy, taking it slow
Honey for my strong drink
Herb for my wine, honey for my strong drink
Take it easy, skanking it slow
Take it easy, taking it easy
Take it easy, skanking it slow
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ROOTS, ROCK, REGGAE
Play I some music, this a reggae music (repeat) |
KEEP ON MOVING
Lord I got to get on down
Lord I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found, where I can't be found
Lord they coming after me
I've been accused on my mission
JAH knows you shouldn't do
For hanging me they were willing yeah! yeah!
And that's why I've got to get on thru
Lord they coming after me
Lord I got to keep on moving
Lord I got to get on down
Lord I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found
Lord they're coming after me
I know someday we'll find that piece
Of land somewhere not nearby Babylon
The war will soon be over and Africa
Will unite the children who liveth in
Darkness have seen the great light
I've got two boys and a woman
And I know they won't suffer now
JAH forgive me for not going back
But I'll be there anyhow
Yes I'll be there anyhow
Lord I got to keep on moving
Lord I got to get on down
Lord I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found, where I can't be found
Lord they coming after me
ONE DROP
I know Jah'd never let us down
They made the world so hard
Feel it in the one drop
And we'll still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
The generation gap
So feel this drum beat
As it beats within
Playing a riddim resisting against the system
Ooh-we I know Jah'd never let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
Oh no! oh no! oh no!
Everyday we got to keep on fighting
Everyday the people are dying
From hunger and starvation, lamentation
But read it in Revelation
You'll find your redemption
And then you give us the teaching of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy
And we still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
And we feel in the gap
So feel this drum beat
As it beats within, playing a riddim
Fighting against ism and skism
PIMPERS PARADISE
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was now
She loves to model, up in the latest fashion
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was now
She looks so hearty, feeling fine
She loves to smoke, sometime shifting coke
She'll be laughing when there ain't no joke
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was
Every need got an ego to feed
Every need got an ego to feed
She's in scramble and she moves with passion
She's getting high, trying to fly the sky
Now she is bluesing when there ain't no blues
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was now
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was
Every need got an ego to feed
Every need got an ego to feed
A pimpers paradise, that's all she was
A pimpers paradise, I'm sorry for the victim now
A pimpers paradise, soon their heads, soon their
Soon their very heads will bow
Pimpers paradise, don't loose track
Don't loose track of yourself oh no!
Pimpers paradise, don't be just a stock, a stock on the shelf
Stock on the shelf, Pimpers paradise that's all she was
SUN IS SHINING
We'll lift our heads and give Jah praises (repeat)
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know y'all, where I stand
(Monday morning) here I am
Want you to know just if you can
(Tuesday evening) where I stand
(Wednesday morning)
Tell myself a new day is rising
(Thursday evening) get on the rise
A new day is dawning
(Friday morning) here I am
(Saturday evening) want you to know just
Want you to know just where I stand
When the morning gathers in rainbow
Want you to know I'm a rainbow too
So, the rescue here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Where I stand, know, know, know, know, know
We'll lift our heads and give Jah praises
We'll lift our heads and give Jah praises, yeah
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Where I stand
(Wednesday morning) tell myself a new day is rising
(Thursday evening) get on the rise a new day is dawning
(Friday morning) here I am
(Saturday evening) want you to know just
Want you to know just where I stand
When the morning gathers in rainbow
Want you to know I'm a rainbow too
So, the rescue, here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Where I stand, know, know, know, know, know
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Where I stand no, no, no, no, where I stand
Sun is shining, sun is shining
WHO THE CAP FIT
You don't know who to trust
Your worst enemy could be your best friend
And your best friend your worst enemy
Some will eat and drink with you
Then behind them su-su 'pon you
Only your friend know your secrets
So only he could reveal it
And who the cap fit, let them wear it (repeat)
Said I throw me corn, me no call no fowl
I saying, "Cok-cok-cok, cluck-cluck-cluck"
Some will hate you, pretend they love you now
Then behind to try to elliminate you
But who Jah bless, no one curse
Thank God we're past the worse
Hypocrites and parasites
Will come up and take a bite
And if your night should turn to day
A lot of people would run away
And who the cap fit, let them wear it (repeat)
And then a gonna throw me corn
And then a gonna call no fowl
And then a gonna "Cok-cok-cok, cluck-cluck-cluck"
Some will eat and drink with you
Then behind them su-su 'pon you
And if your night should turn to day
A lot of people would run away
And who the cap fit, let them wear it (repeat)
I throw me corn, me no call no fowl
I saying, "Cok-cok-cok, cluck-cluck-cluck"
WAR
That until there are no longer first class
That until the basic human rights are eqally
That until that day
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
War in the east, war in the west
And until that day, the African continent
Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil,
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abadoned
Everywhere is war, me say war
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance that the colour of his eyes
Me say war
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Dis a war
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
That hold our brothers in Angola, in Mosambique,
South Africa sub-human bondage
Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war, me say war
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of war
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
Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
AFRICA UNITE
How good and how pleasant it would be
Africa, Unite 'cause the children wanna come home
How good and how pleasant it would be
As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
So Africa, Unite, Africa, Unite
Unite for the benefit of your children
Unite for the Africans abroad
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our father's land
Before God and man, yeah
To see the unification of all Africans, yeah
As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
Africa, Unite 'cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're grooving to our father's land
Before God and man, yeah
To see the unification of all Rastaman, yeah
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for it's later than you think
Unite for it's later than you think
Africa awaits it's creator
Africa awaiting it's creators
Africa, you're my forefather cornerstone
Unite for the Africans a yard
Africa, Unite
NATURAL MYSTIC
Though I try to find the answer
This could be the first trumpet
Blowing through the air
If you listen carefully now you will here
This could be the first trumpet
Might as well be 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
To all the question 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 here
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
Might as well be last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
There's a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
I won't tell no lie
If you listen carefully now you will here
TIME WILL TELL
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Back them up, oh not the brothers
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell (repeat)
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Oh children weep no more
JAH would never give the power to a baldhead
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Run come crucify the dread
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell (repeat)
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell
But the ones who set them up
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell
Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree
Oh children weep no more
Weep no more, children weep no more
Run come crucify the dread
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell (repeat)
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you're in heaven, but you living in hell
TRENCH TOWN ROCK (live)
You grooving Kingston 12, grooving Kingston 12
I say one good thing, one good thing
Feel no pain (repeat)
So hit me with music, hit me with music
Hit me with music, hit me with music now
I got to say trench town rock
I say don't watch that
Trench town rock, big fish or sprat
Trench town rock, you reap what you sow
Trench town rock, and everyone know now
Trench town rock, don't turn you back
Trench town rock, give the slum a try
Trench town rock, never let the children cry
Trench town rock, cause you got to tell JAH, JAH
Grooving woe, woe, it's Kingston 12
Grooving It's Kingston 12
No want you fe galang so
No want you fe galang so
You want come cold I up
Cause I'm grooving, yes I'm grooving
When it hits you feel no pain
One good thing about music
When it hits you feel no pain
So hit me with music
Hit me with music now
Hit me with music, hit me with music
Look at that, Trench Town rock
I say don't watch that, Trench Town rock
If you big fish or sprat, Trench Town rock
You reap what you sow, Trench Town rock
And everyone know now, Trench Town rock
Don't turn you back, Trench Town rock
Give the slum a try, Trench Town rock
Never let the children cry, Trench Town rock
Cause you got to tell JAH, JAH why
Grooving, grooving, grooving, grooving
NATURAL MYSTIC 3.26
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers ©1977 Island Records Inc
EASY SKANKING 2.56
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers ©1978 Island Records Inc
IRON LION ZION 3.13
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Additional production by Errol Brown, Ingmar Kiang & Trevor Wyatt ©1992 Island Records Ltd
CRAZY BALDHEADS 3.22
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers ©1976 Island Records Inc
SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD 3.56
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers and Alex Sadkin ©1979 Island Records Inc
WAR 3.31
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers ©1976 Island Records Inc
AFRICA UNITE 2.53
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers and Alex Sadkin ©1979 Island Records Inc
TRENCHTOWN ROCK (LIVE) 4.21
Produced by Steve Smith and Chris Blackwell ©1975 Island Records Ltd
KEEP ON MOVING 4.21
Produced by Bob Marley, Lee Perry and Errol Brown
Additional production by Ingmar Kiang & Trevor Wyatt ©1995 Island Records Inc
SUN IS SHINING 4.35
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers ©1978 Island Records Inc
WHO THE CAP FIT 4.16
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers ©1976 Island Records Inc
ONE DROP 3.51
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers and Alex Sadkin ©1979 Island Records Inc
ROOTS ROCK REGGAE 3.31
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers ©1979 Island Records Inc
PIMPERS PARADISE 3.26
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers and Chris Blackwell ©1980 Island Records Inc
TIME WILL TELL 3.29
Produced by Bob Marley & The Wailers ©1978 Island Records Inc
All titles written by Bob Marley except side one track 4 written by R.Marley/V.Ford, track 6 written by A.Cole/C.Barrett. Side two track 1 written by C.Mayfield, track 3 written by A.Barrett/C.Barrett. All titles published by Bob Marley Music/Blue Mountain Music Ltd except side one track 8: Cayman Music Inc/EMI Tunes Plc, side two track 1: Ivan Mogal Music Ltd/EMI Tunes Plc.
My right to publish the above lyrics on the Web can only be disputed by the members of Robert Nesta Marley's family.
E-mail: shohdy@zhurnal.ru
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