The Best of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers

  • The Best of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    2008
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    #Track TitleTime
    1Give a Little Love4:02
    2Tomorrow People3:36
    3Good Time5:24
    4Brothers and Sisters2:48
    5New Love3:39
    6Freedom Road4:30
    7Met Her On a Rainy Day3:28
    8Reggae Revolution4:04
    9Kozmic6:17
    10Tumblin' Down4:01
    11Aiding and Abetting3:50
    12Look Who's Dancin'4:58
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Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers Live

  • Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers Live
    2000
  • The first live album to feature Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers, shows the Marley family-based group continuing on the same path cut by legendary father Bob Marley.

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    #Track TitleTime
    1Power to Move Ya6:01
    2Conscious Party5:09
    3Beautiful Day4:43
    4Jah Bless4:58
    5One Good Spliff4:35
    6Free Like We Want 2 Be5:48
    7Jammin'5:35
    8Postman5:26
    9Stir It Up4:29
    10Higher Vibration6:48
    11People Get Ready4:56
    12Could You Be Loved5:36
    13I Know You Don't Care About Me5:45
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The Spirit of Music

  • The Spirit of Music
    1999
  • Both the singing and the lyrics on Spirit of Music are sublime, recalling Bob Marley's early work. In fact, Stephen Marley's delivers haunting and effective versions of his father's tunes "All Day All Night" and "High Tide or Low Tide." Filled with soulful singing and easygoing melodies, this album is a must-have for even casual reggae fans.

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    1Keep My Faith
    Worlds all changing
    They trying to change us too
    I might be going crazy
    What am I to do

    Keep my faith

    Walls crumble around me
    I'm not surprised
    What could I do
    When you took my rights

    Keep my faith

    Like forty days and forty nights
    In this wilderness of life
    I am tempted
    Frustration stirs up strife
    Oh no no

    Keep my faith

    Circle around the sun
    The signs are in the skies
    The day will come
    After the night

    Mama say
    Keep my faith, what you gonna do
    Daddy say Lord
    Keep my faith
    Jah Jah say now
    Keep my faith
    People say
    Keep my faith
    Nothing they can do
    Keep my faith
    I even could be blue
    I keep my faith
    Could be down in the trenches
    Could be down in the trenches
    Keep my faith
    Could down on my last breath
    keep my faith

    One more thing Jim
    Walls crumble around me
    I am not surprised
    There's nothing I could do
    When they took my rights but
    What you say

    Keep my faith
    Jah Jah, Keep my faith
    What you gonna do
    Jah I Keep my faith
    I'll Keep my faith
    What you gonna do
    Keep my faith

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    5:06
    2We Are One
    There is a knowledge we all know
    Yet we don't know, yet we don't know
    There is a knowledge we all know
    Yet we don't know, yet we don't know

    We are one

    There is a spirit we all know
    Yet we don't know, yet we don't know
    There is a spirit we all know
    Yet we don't know, yet we don't know

    We are one

    Is it so hard to love one another
    My brother
    To see each other as we are
    My sister
    The earthy family
    Forever

    Wake up
    Wake up now
    Wake up
    Wake up now
    Wake up to the realization
    That we are all of one nation
    Everyone let's have some fun
    Under the moon, the stars, the sun

    Cause We are one
    We are one

    There is a knowledge
    We are one
    There is a spirit
    We are one

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    3:41
    3Beautiful Day
    Take a look into the sky
    'Cause the world is not so pretty
    Free myself from worries
    So I can see
    It's just a beautiful day
    It's just a beautiful day

    You could be sad
    But I rather you not be
    Don't dwell on the negative
    Just the positivity
    And it's a beautiful day
    It's just a beautiful day

    We're always trying to satisfy these wants and needs
    Take you some time for that inner peace
    When your eyes are open
    You'll see things differently
    Thereês so much gloom
    Hiding the reality
    It's just a beautiful day
    Yeah, It's just a beautiful day


    Take a look into the sky
    Wake up
    Take a look into the sky
    Keep your head up high
    Take a look into the sky

    I take a look into the sky
    'Cause the world is not so pretty
    Free myself from worries
    So I can see
    It's just a beautiful day

    I could be sad
    But you rather me not be
    Don't dwell on the negative just the positivity
    And it's a beautiful day
    And it's a beautiful day

    We're always trying to satisfy these wants and needs
    Take you some time for that inner peace
    When our eyes are open
    We'll see things differently
    There's so much gloom
    Hiding the reality
    It's just a beautiful day
    A beautiful day

    Take a look into the sky
    Wake up
    Take a look into the sky
    Look in the sky
    Keep your head up high

    It's just a beautiful day
    I know it's a beautiful day
    It's just a beautiful day
    I know it's a beautiful day
    No one can take that away
    It's just a beautiful day
    I know it's a beautiful day
    Don't you feel no way
    It's just a beautiful day

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    3:51
    4Gone Away
    Our existence today
    Mean so much for tomorrow
    I'll always be there for you
    Share your joys on top of your sorrows
    But I will no longer live this life in the flesh
    To the lust of man but to the will of God
    All things have come to an end
    Now be mindful of prayer

    I'm gone away
    To the place where there is no night or day
    I'm gone away
    To that place, to that place


    When we're gone
    What we leave behind is of no consequence
    Just the love that we take
    Will be our only memories
    Like a child at play
    The tears will soon dry away
    Like a bright sunny day
    No need to have any more fears

    You're gone away
    To the place where there is no night or day
    You're gone away
    To that place, to that place

    Gone away

    lulululululululu

    Our existence today
    Mean so much for tomorrow
    I'll always be there for you
    To share your joys on top of your sorrows
    But I no longer live the life in the flesh
    To the lust of man but to the will of God
    Everything had come to an end
    Now I've been mindful of prayer

    I'm gone away
    To the place where there is no night of day
    I'm gone away
    To that place
    Gone Away

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    5:08
    5All Day All Night
    I would never give my love to no one but you babe
    I would never give my love to no one but you babe
    So Love me forever, I said love me forever
    Baby love me not just for pleasure
    Love me always and forever
    'Cause I love you

    It couldn't be better

    And I'm giving my love to you baby
    You got my love

    So don't you ever give your love to no one but me babe
    Don't you ever give your love to no one but me babe
    Tell you this
    Is all day and all night , all day all night
    Our love needs protection
    Our love needs direction
    And I love you

    Baby now
    And I'm giving my love to you baby
    You got my love
    Don't you believe
    That I'm giving my love to you baby
    You got my love

    So don't you ever give your love to no one but me babe
    'Cause I would never give my love to no one but you babe
    So love me forever
    Baby love me not just for pleasure
    Love me always and forever
    And I love you

    It couldn't be better
    And I'm giving my love to you baby
    You got my love
    Oh don't you believe that I'm giving my love to you baby
    You got my love
    Say you must believe that I'm giving my love to you baby
    You got my love

    So all day and all night
    So all day and all night
    Our love needs protection
    Our love needs direction
    And I love you

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    4:14
    6Higher Vibrations
    These city walls
    Are like a prison
    Why we gotta keep on living
    With our backs against the wall

    We are creatures of love
    Victims of hate
    We gotta keep on living
    With our backs against the wall

    No No No
    Start living on a higher vibration
    Now we take it to the heights of creation

    Perfection of divinity
    Is everyone's duty
    Don't waste your time
    Living for the vanities
    We are creatures of faith
    Victims of destiny
    Which we create

    Now we living on a higher vibration
    'Cause we take it to the heights of creation

    You know what I'm talking 'bout
    don't tell me no
    Baby I could scream and shout
    But I won't
    It's a human experience
    On another sphere
    Well, it's a human existence
    On another wavelength

    Listen to me now
    Now We living on a higher vibration
    Then we take it to the heights of creation

    Let me take you little higher
    And then you take me little higher

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    7All I Need
    I don't need no body
    To make me happy
    All I need is you

    I don't need no money
    To live how I should
    All I need is you

    Sorrow sometimes teach a lesson well
    And I know that good can come from bad
    So let's look into that morning star
    'Cause we know just who we are

    I don't need no body
    To make me happy
    All I need is you

    I don't need no money
    To live how I should
    All I need is you

    Man, this road I said it's rocky rough
    So much obstacles and barriers
    Ecclesiastes man him say
    Everything is vanity

    I don't need no body
    All I need is you

    Sorrow sometimes teach a lesson well
    And I know that good can come from bad
    So let's look into that morning star
    'Cause you know just who you are

    I don't need no body
    To make me happy
    All I need is you

    I don't need no money
    To live how I should
    All I need is you

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    3:33
    8One Good Spliff
    One Good Spliff
    Written by Stephen Marley

    We gon' do our best
    Never let it rest
    Till our good be better
    And our better best

    Said I don't drink coffee
    For they say
    It's just not right for me
    But what makes me irie
    Is if I could get a little piece of tree

    And build
    One good spliff
    Me and my little brothers
    We take a ride
    Gonna teach them
    All the lessons that I have learned in life

    One good spliff
    Me and my younger brothers
    We take a ride
    I've gotta teach them
    All the lessons that I have learned in life

    Sometimes I feel the pressure
    But I know that I'll be fine
    Just as long as you got me
    Something for my mind

    Now let me get a rizzla
    Little bit a herb
    Light a old match
    Let me settle my nerves
    I gotta feel real high
    Just to touch up on these tracks
    Several ounces a day as a matter of fact

    Now in Jamaica
    Where the air is clean
    And the buds all glisten with the glowing green
    Guaranteed to lift you up
    If you know what I mean
    Read me loud and clear
    Let me hear you scream
    Now, you haven't been there
    You should go there soon
    And pass through the country
    Get a touch of the boom
    Go back to your shack or your hotel room
    Call Mom and Pop says
    I'll be home soon
    Hanging with the Marleys all afternoon
    And I ain't coming home till next May or June

    Keep giving me the good vibration
    It's giving me that inspiration
    And I love that good sensation
    Matter of fact
    I think I might build myself one

    One good spliff
    Me and my younger sisters
    We take a ride
    One good spliff
    Start the day out right
    One good spliff
    I didn't get no sleep last night
    And I've got to get
    One good spliff

    I'm picking up
    Good vibrations
    One good spliff

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    3:54
    9Let It Go
    Let it go
    Let your body go
    When the music flow
    Got nothing to lose
    When we're dancing to the music

    It's a vibration
    A sensation
    A natural mystic
    All around
    Coming to you from above
    Coming to you from underground

    Let it go
    Let your body go
    When the music flow
    Got nothing to lose
    When we‰re dancing to the music

    Let it go, you've got to let it go
    Let it go, you've got to let it flow

    Sometimes we just got to let go
    Of everything we think we know
    Sometimes we just got to be free
    No one telling us how we should be

    Let it go
    Let your body go
    When the music flow
    I got nothing to lose
    When I'm dancing to the music

    Just call me music
    And don't call me nothing else
    All your might
    Say we dancing through the night
    With all your might
    Say we grooving through the night

    Sometimes you just got to let go
    Of everything you think we know
    Sometimes we just got to be free
    No one telling us how we should be

    Let it go
    Let your body go

    Let it go
    A sensation, a natural mystic
    Let your body go
    Let it go now
    Free your soul now
    Let it go

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    5:25
    1013 Months of Sunshine
    13 Months of Sunshine
    Is what we got

    Take us to, take us to , take us to that land

    Who shall ascend the hill
    Stand in that holy place
    Lift up your heads
    O ancient gates


    13 Months of Sunshine
    Is what she got

    Forward to , Forward to , Forward to that land

    Where the water run
    We want to be
    Earth gives food
    Feeds you and me
    Amharic chant

    Forward to that land

    Now the sun is in my eyes
    Well I say
    I‰m feeling high

    Take us to that land
    Forward to that land

    13 Months of Sunshine

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    4:30
    11Many Waters
    Set me as a seal on your heart
    Love is stronger than death
    Jealousy is cruel as the grave
    Love, many waters cannot quench

    Many waters cannot quench
    Love, many waters cannot quench
    I've been searching
    Now I see
    I got some love inside of me
    Love, many waters cannot quench

    Dreams of you fill my reality
    Beautiful you are my love
    Your eyes are doves behind the veil
    Fair as the moon
    Strong as the sun

    Many waters cannot quench
    Love, many waters cannot quench
    I've been searching
    Now I see
    So much love inside of you
    Love, many waters cannot quench
    I've been searching
    Now I see

    Set me as a seal on your heart
    Love is stronger than death
    Jealousy is cruel as the grave
    Love, many waters cannot quench

    Won't retreat, won't surrender
    I want you to remember

    Many waters cannot quench
    Love, many waters cannot quench
    I've stopped searching
    Now I see
    So much love inside of me
    Love, many waters cannot quench
    I've stopped searching
    Now I see
    So much love inside of you
    Love, many waters cannot quench

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    4:36
    12High Tide or Low Tide3:58
    13Won't Let You Down4:16
    14Jah Will Be Done
    Everyday is just a day
    To sing your praises
    Everyday is just a day
    To give you glory

    So while the faithless fret
    When destruction comes
    Where they gonna run

    Let Jah will be done
    Just like the morning sun

    Stop your war and stop your cruelness
    This yah judgement a go really dread
    And the wicked think them get away
    But where they gonna run

    Let Jah will be done
    Just like the morning sun

    I rise in the morning
    And I'm thinking of love
    For all Jah children
    He created us
    And all who don't hear the crying of the poor
    Where them gonna run

    Let Jah will be done
    Just like the morning sun

    Everyday is just a day
    To sing your praises
    Everyday is just a day
    To give you glory

    So while those faithless fret
    When destruction come
    Where they gonna run

    Let Jah will be done, just like morning sun
    Just like the evening sun
    Just like the morning sun
    Just like the evening sun

    Producer
    Don Was and Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
    4:59
    15Many Waters (Reprise)4:45
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Fallen Is Babylon

  • Fallen Is Babylon
    1997
  • Fallen Is Babylon was honored with a Grammy. With the songwriting split among Ziggy and Stephen, the album is surprisingly diverse, even by the Melody Makers' usual standards. Swinging from a retro '60s sound to dancehall and from R&B to rootsy reggae, and shifting across a myriad of moods and themes, the quartet members prove themselves to be masters of all genres.

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    1Fallen Is Babylon
    Fallen is Babylon all nation have drunk of her passion
    Fallen is Babylon right now
    Come out of her oh people unless you want to share her plagues
    Listen to me now come out of her Jah Jah people in your minds
    Unless you wanna partake of her sins look what you doing man
    Fallen is Babylon all nation have drunk of her passion
    Fallen is Babylon right now

    Welcome Jah in your new name we're singing we glorify not in vain
    Tell you what mysteries dead and reality claims
    I mean built over many years gone in day take it now
    Fallen is Babylon all nation have drunk of her passion Babylon is falling down

    Fallen is Babylon right now so much heart broken so much sufferation
    After this I saw another angel trod down from Zion
    With great authority given to him
    The Earth was lit up with his glory at teh top of his voice he shouted
    Babylon has fallen Babylon the great has fallen

    Whore of this whoel world so much sorrow she gave to many many many like you and
    me
    Oh so tempting just like a beautiful thing

    But I just can't let myself be let myself be a next victim no no no no no
    Fallen is Babylon all nation have drunk her passion
    Fallen is Babylon right now right now
    Babylon system is a system that exists for centuries centuries
    Still run by the same mentality that runs it still here to do the same thing
    they've done
    Conquer the poor and oppress the under privileged we got to stop that
    Babylon oh Babylon


    lead vocal: Ziggy Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    angel speech: Jah Lloyd
    drums: Jonathon Quamby
    bass: Kevin Bacon
    keyboard: Mallory Williams
    guitar: Ziggy Marley
    horns: Dean Fraser, Chico Chin, Everol Gayle
    harmony arrangement: Mikey Bennett

    Producer
    Kevin Bacon & Jonathan Quarmby
    4:14
    2Everyone Wants To Be
    Everyone wants to be the cowboy living life the wild wild west style
    Everyone wants to be the outlaw
    Well everyone tough and no one is gonna back down
    Everyone's tough and no one is gonna back down
    Everyone wants to be the superstar live like a star and driving the fancy car
    Everyone wants to get some fame playing the man's game
    Everyone tough and no one is gonna back down
    Capone said him tough and no one is gonna back down

    Hey yo warning to informers and traitors first one die will be the instigator
    Who died and left you commentator outer body experience see it's not all good
    Look into the eyes of who was once Clint Eastwood
    Fire koombaya for back up call Libya soldiers hold your fire I see Ethiopia
    I hear you boast about who you toast around the coast
    But once you hear teh fire you vanish like human ghost sucker
    Everyone wants to be the cowboy living life the wild wild west style
    Everyone wants to be the outlaw
    Well everyone's tough and no one is gonna back down
    Everyone's tough and no one is gonna back down
    Sandokas said him tough and no one is gonna back down
    Jesse James said him rough and no one is gonna back down.


    lead vocals: Ziggy Marley / rap: Wyclef Jean
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Stephen Marley, Damian Marley
    guitars: Stephen Marley, Ian Coleman
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    harmonica: Ian Carterton
    additional loops & keyboards: Kevin Bacon and Jonathan Quamby

    Producer
    Melody Makers, Co-produced by Kevin Bacon & Jonathan Quarmby
    3:45
    3People Get Ready
    People get ready
    There's a train a comin'
    You don't need no baggage you just get on board
    All you need is faith
    To hear the diesel comin'
    Don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord

    People get ready
    Train to Jordan
    Picking up passengers from coast to coast
    Faith is key
    Open the doors and board them
    There's hope for all among the love the most

    There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
    Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own soul
    Have pity on those whose choices grow thinner
    There ain't no hiding place from the Kingdom's throne

    People get ready
    There's a train a comin'
    You don't need no baggage you just get on board
    All you need is faith
    To hear the diesel comin'
    Don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord

    There's a train there's a train there's a train comin' people
    There's a train there's a train there's a train comin' people
    There's a train there's a train there's a train comin' people
    Just get on board

    There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
    Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own soul
    Have pity on those whose choices grow thinner
    There ain't no hiding place from the Kingdom's throne


    lead vocal: Ziggy Marley
    dj: Stephen Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Glen Brownie
    guitars: Earl Smith & Ian Coleman
    keyboards: Carol McLaughlin & Mallory Williams
    percussion: Uzziah Thompson

    Producer
    Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero, co-produced by the Melody Makers
    4:39
    4Postman
    Oh did you get that message yesterday
    Jah sent I as your postman with your mail
    Oh did you get your message yesterday
    Jah sent I as your postman with your mail
    Hey said are you getting are you getting are you getting Jah message
    Are you getting are you getting are you getting Jah message
    Said are you getting are you getting are you getting Jah message
    And are you getting are you getting are y ou getting Jah message

    Everything in life has ups and downs everything in life has its up and downs
    So count you blessings count you blessing count you blessing you getting
    count you blessing count you blessing count you blessing you getting

    SOLO

    Hey yea oh did you get your message yesterday
    Jah sent I as your postman with your mail yes he did yea
    Oh did you get your message yesterday
    Appoint Ziggy as your postman with your mail
    Hey said are you getting are you getting are you getting Jah message
    Are you getting are you getting are you getting Jah message
    And are you getting are you getting are you getting Jah message
    Are you getting are you getting are you getting Jah message yea
    Hey why do you look so sad and forsaken
    When one door is closed many more is open


    lead vocal: Stephen Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, Carol McLaughlin, Ziggy Marley
    guitars: Earl Smith, Ian Coleman
    percussion: Uzziah Thompson
    harmony arrangement: Grub Cooper

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:50
    5Brotherly Sisterly Love
    No more pain on the battle field hel pyou friend if they're in need
    Give her what she wants give himw hat he needs
    This is where it start straight from the heart
    This is where it start straight from the heart together now
    Brotherly brotherly love sisterly love

    repeat

    Fighting one another it never get us no where
    Still in the same boat as yesteryear
    People killing the people it never get the people no where
    People in the same boat as yesteryear got to have
    Brotherly brotherly love sisterly love

    repeat

    Politician rule and lead the wrong direction its up to you and me to make the
    correction
    Politician rule and lead the wrong direction its up to you and me to make the
    correction

    solo

    No more pain on the battle field help you friend if they're in need
    Give her what she want give me what I needs
    This is where it start straight from the heart
    This is where it start straight from the heart
    Together now
    Brotherly brotherly love sisterly love

    repeat

    lead vocal: Ziggy Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Raphael Wolde Mariam
    bass: Zeleke Gessesse
    keyboards: Malaku Retta, Carol McLaughlin, Ziggy Marley, Mallory Williams
    guitars: Mulugetta Gessesse, Earl Smith, Ziggy Marley
    percussion: Uzziah Thompson
    harmony arrangement: Grub Cooper

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:27
    6Born To Be Lively
    Yea yea yea yea
    Everyone say yea yea yea

    repeat

    Born to be lively we're born to be lively
    Born to be lively we're born to be lively
    So when you see Ziggy doing his thing that's why he was born
    and when you see Steve doing his thing that's why he was born
    We're on a positive track today well it's a positive track not trail

    repeat

    Nothing they do can keep us down
    People move
    Nothing they say can stop this crowd

    repeat

    We rejoice in good times yea we rejoice in bad times too yea
    So no matter what's going down
    I say born fi lively push out your hand and move your body
    Face no bend up like no soldier smile for teh gal them make she feel irie
    Nuff niceness in a the ras party born fi irie
    Keep yourself high
    We're born to be lively we're born to be lively you're born to be lively you're
    Born to be lively
    Ciddy's born to be lively she's born to be lively Sharon's born to be lively
    She's born to be lively
    So when you see Ciddy doing Ciddy's doing her thing that's why she was born
    And when you see Sharon Sharon's doing that thing that's why she was born
    We're on a positive track today well it's a positive track not trail

    repeat

    Hey nothing they do can keep us down
    People move
    Nothing they say can stop this crowd

    repeat

    We rejoice in good times yea we rejoice in bad times too yea so no matter what's
    going down
    I say born fi lively tell you again although we tell you already
    Life off your tam and fly you natty show me all the lady who is hotty hotty
    Nuff niceness in a the ras party born fi lively
    Keep yourself high keep yourself up now keep yourself high

    repeat

    Born to be lively we're born to be lively said I'm having fun
    You're born to be lively you're born to be lively everyone having fun


    lead vocals & guitars: Ziggy Marley / dj vocal: Steve Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Glen Brownie
    keyboards: Carol McLaughlin, Ziggy Marley, Mallory Williams
    harmony arrangement: Grub Cooper

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    5:37
    7Long Winter
    It's gonna be a long long winter you see
    It's gonna be a long long winter for me
    It's cold outside I'm just not feeling right
    My woman left me on the midnight train she ain't coming back again
    Well that girl she's gone from me left my heart in misery
    Well that girl she's gone from me left my heart in misery

    It's gonna be a long long winter you see
    It's gonna be a long long winter for me
    Now that she's gone gone gone I don't think I can carry on yea now she's gone
    Days are cold and the nights are long so long now
    She's gone
    Here comes winter yeah
    Gonna be a long long winter you see
    It's gonna be a long long winter for me

    solo

    It's cold outside just not feeling right
    My woman left me on the midnight train she ain't coming back again
    Well that girl she's gone from me left my heart in misery
    It's gonna be a long long winter you see it's gonna be a long long winter for me

    repeat

    Well that girl she's gone from me left my heart in misery
    Yea she's gone frome me left my heart in misery


    lead vocal: Stephen Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    guitars: Earl Smith, Ian Coleman
    keyboards: Carol McLaughlin, Mallory Williams
    percussion: Uzziah Thompson
    harmony arrangement: Mikey Bennett

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:17
    8I Remember
    Haunting memories won't leave me alone
    I remember you what you did to me I remember
    October November I remember what you did to me
    Hot night in summer I never forget the time in June I remember
    The love we had why make it look so bad I remember
    I remember the place I remember your face I remember it oh so well I remember
    I remember your touch I remember how much I remember how we felt
    All the good times were not for waste
    And we were never in any haste
    We grew to know each other well so well
    Our lives a story to tell
    I remember you what I did to you do you remember
    October NovemberI remember what I did to you
    Hot night in summer I never forget the time in June I remember
    The love we had why make it look so bad I remember
    I remember the place I remember your face I remember it oh so well I remember
    I remember your touch I remember how much I remember when I remember now and then
    I remember
    I remember the place I remember your face I remember it oh so well I remember
    I remember y our touch I remember how much I remember how we felt I remember


    lead vocal: Ziggy Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Glen Brownie
    guitars: Earl Smith, Ian Coleman
    keyboards: Carol McLaughlin, Ziggy Marley, Mallory Williams
    harmony arrangement: Mikey Bennett

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:46
    9Day By Day
    Now whether you come from yard or whether you come from London
    Wanna hear this one on your radio station
    Conscious lyrics have to reach number one
    Teach we come to teach we come to teach the nation lyrically lyrically
    inspiration
    Love and nuff unity with lots of education
    We'll take it by the hundred take it
    one by one
    This is ragga with the inspiration
    I can only sing of destruction today cause my people are shedding blood
    everywhere
    There is no happy song to sing when every time I'm frowning
    I watch my back as I pass through cause they're aiming their bullets at me
    Jah say he see us through so I knew that the wicked would perish
    Never forget your dreams life is full of ups and downs yea
    No matter how hard it seems never forget your dreams
    Just take it day by day by day by day by day by day
    day by day by day by day by day
    we laugh at them for they know their day is coming
    The wicked draw their sword to slay the upright
    The wicked bend their bows to cast down the poor
    Yet their swords shall pierce them in their own hearts
    Never you lose your faith things and times will have to change yea
    Say you might be down today but never you lose your faith
    Just take it day by day by day by day by day by day
    Day by day by day by day by day
    Boom boom boom raggamuffin done tell you this yah tune yah a boom
    Boom boom boom rugu rugu done tell you this yah tune yah a boom
    Junior going in a the place and everybody say boom
    Boom this yah boom this yah tune yah a boom raga muffin on the version so it must
    be a boom
    Boom this boom this yah tune yah a boom boom boom
    this is ragga ragga telling you bout the boom
    Worry not of tomorrow for we know not what a day may bring
    Faithful are the wounds of a brother than the kisses from an enemy
    Pride is their chain of honor violence is the garment that covers them
    My feet were at that stumbling point but I didn't slip
    Never forget your dreams life is full of ups and downs yea
    Say no matter how hard it seems never forget your dreams
    Let's take it day by day by day by day by day by day
    Day by day by day by day by day
    So ragga muffin junior gong with a next element keep the vibes in a the music
    make so the music
    Have strength don't forget all you dreams nor you hopesyah me friend ragga muffin
    junior gong a
    Teach it like a reverand so all foreigner go hold a yardie accent and make we
    take you weh and fling
    You to another wavelength like the Nazerene Samson we have a lot of strength
    bigging up Jah Jah
    Blowing breath like a vent


    lead vocal: Ziggy Marley
    dj: Stephen Marley, Damian Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, Carol McLaughlin
    guitars: Ian Coleman, Earl Smith
    additional drums: Danno Saratak


    Producer
    Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero
    5:24
    10Five Days A Year
    This something for my baby oh explaining how the way it goes
    Want to tell you you're my cherry oh this is how the way it goes
    She says it's my line of work that makes a woman really hurt
    I said yo I'm trying but she started crying
    She believes I'm lying I'm trying she says

    Five days a year I don't see you much five days a year It's not enough
    Five days a year that's really rough five days a year yeah
    Now I could tell she really hurts and she thinks I'm dishing dirt
    But Jah Jah knows I'm trying but she insists I'm lying

    Well she keeps on crying and crying she says
    Five days a year I don't see you much five days a year it's not enough
    Five days a year that's really rough five days this year yeah
    She say we don't do things together anymore and it seems we're not together
    anymore

    repeat

    She said it's my line of work that makes a woman really hurt
    I said yo I'm trying but she started crying
    She believes I'm lying I'm trying she says
    Five days a yar I don't see you much five days a year it's not enough
    Five days a year that's really rough five days this year yeah
    She say we don't do things together anymore and it seems we're not together
    anymore

    repeat

    That makes a woman, that makes a woman
    Five days a year


    lead vocal: Stephen Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Glen Brownie
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, Carol McLaughlin, Ziggy Marley
    guitars: Earl Smith, Ian Coleman, Uzziah Thompson
    harmony arrangement: Wayne Hammond

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:37
    11Notice
    Notice how she moves into the night notice
    Dressed up like a pimpers paradise notice
    She came over to me and said she whispered softely in my head
    What do you do yea are you alone tonight
    She said what do you do are you a mama's child
    Notice how she has an alibi
    Where and when she hasn't been tonight
    Seem she didn't get the drift I had to build another spliff
    What doyou do yea and are you alone tonight
    What do you do are you a mama's child
    Notice how she moves into the night
    Yea she's like a pimper's paradise
    Came over to me and said she whispered softly in my head
    What do you do yea are you alone tonight
    She said what do you do hey are you a mama's child
    What do you do yea are you alone tonight
    She said what do you do dread are you a mama's child


    lead vocal: Stephen Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    keyboards: Carol McLaughlin, Mallory Williams, Ziggy Marley
    guitars: Ian Coleman, Earl Smith
    percussion: Uzziah Thompson
    harmony arrangement: Grub Cooper

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:08
    12Diamond City
    Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone yea
    Well I've seen a crime to which I can't be blind living in a diamond city with a
    broken heart
    Well I've seen a crime to it I can't be blind living in a diamond city with a
    broken heart
    Oh diamond city let me take you there
    There everyday there's a need for revolution
    She's like a mother who denies her newborn milk
    Lost are the thrills of life as we know them they one man swim yet many more are
    drowning
    Well I've seen a crime to which I can't be blind living in a diamond city with a
    broken heart
    Yes I've seen a crime to which I can't be blind living in a diamond city with a
    broken heart
    In a diamond city let me take you there
    Surely we can help each other in this earth
    Ain't no need to be greedy or too proud no need
    Because the color of our skin they gave us no chance to win
    Well I've seen a crime to it I can't be blind living in a diamond city with a
    broken heart
    We will fight for our rights we will fight for Africa we will fight for our
    freedom
    Did you hear we will fight for Africa
    I've seen a crime to which I can't be blind living in a diamond city with a
    broken heart
    Yes I've seen a crime where are the cops this time living in a diamond city with
    a broken heart
    Oh diamond city come here let me take you there let me take you there I'll take
    you there


    lead vocal: Ziggy Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Raphael Wolde Miriam
    bass: Zeleke Gessesse
    keyboards: Melaku Retta, Carol McLaughlin, Mallory Williams
    guitars: Mulu Gessesse, Ziggy Marley
    percussion: Uzziah Thompson
    harmony arrangement: Mikey Bennett

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:51
    13Jah Bless
    Yea let me tell you something right now
    Don't care them jealousy don't care hypocrisy zero visibility ahead of me
    Don't care hypocrisy their lies and jealously zero visibility ahead of me
    but I still
    Work hard step by step together work hard work hard step by step yea we'll put
    together
    Jah bless and you muma vex jah bless and you pupa vex Jah bless popes and
    preachers vex
    Jah bless
    Now stumbling blocks move out the way we've got to make it through the day
    And all them works that you see go on I and I no mash no corn
    Well stumbling block move out the way we've got to make it through the day
    And all the works that you see go on I and I no mash no corn
    So work hard push and pull together work hard work hard yea we want some good
    work hard
    Tell you this yea one day we will be together
    Jah bless and you muma vex Jah bless them pupa Jah bless the pope and preacher
    vex

    solo

    Hey stumbling block move out of the way we've got to make it through the day
    And all the works that you see go on well I and I no mash no corn
    Hey stumbling block move out teh way we're gonna make it through the day
    And all the works that you see go on yea well natty dread no mash no corn
    We work hard work hard work hard till we belly full step by step well pull
    together Jah bless and the preacher vex Jah bless my school, teacher vex Jah
    bless all them people vex
    Jah bless


    lead vocal: Stephen Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Aston Barrett
    keyboards: Carol McLaughlin, Earl Fitzsimmonds, Mallory Williams
    percussion: Uzziah Thompson

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:00
    14People Get Ready (RH Factor Reggae Vocal Mix)
    People get ready
    There's a train a comin'
    You don't need no baggage you just get on board
    All you need is faith
    To hear the diesel comin'
    Don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord

    People get ready
    Train to Jordan
    Picking up passengers from coast to coast
    Faith is key
    Open the doors and board them
    There's hope for all among the love the most

    There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
    Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own soul
    Have pity on those whose choices grow thinner
    There ain't no hiding place from the Kingdom's throne

    People get ready
    There's a train a comin'
    You don't need no baggage you just get on board
    All you need is faith
    To hear the diesel comin'
    Don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord

    There's a train there's a train there's a train comin' people
    There's a train there's a train there's a train comin' people
    There's a train there's a train there's a train comin' people
    Just get on board

    There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
    Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own soul
    Have pity on those whose choices grow thinner
    There ain't no hiding place from the Kingdom's throne


    lead vocal: Ziggy Marley
    dj: Stephen Marley
    harmonies: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley, Erica Newell
    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Glen Brownie
    guitars: Earl Smith & Ian Coleman
    keyboards: Carol McLaughlin & Mallory Williams
    percussion: Uzziah Thompson

    Producer
    Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero, co-produced by the Melody Makers
    3:53
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The Best of (1988 - 1993)

  • The Best of (1988 - 1993)
    1997
  • 17 track compilation through 1993

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    #Track TitleTime
    1Kozmic6:17
    2Look Who's Dancin'5:00
    3One Bright Day4:12
    4Good Time
    5Joy and Blues4:11
    6Justice4:12
    7Black My Story (Not History)4:15
    8Lee and Molly4:21
    9New Love3:42
    10Tomorrow People3:37
    11Brothers and Sisters2:49
    12Rainbow Country
    13Tumblin' Down4:02
    14Small People3:15
    15When the Lights Gone Out 4:08
    16Who Will Be There4:11
    17Conscious Party4:54
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Free Like We Want 2 B

  • Free Like We Want 2 B
    1995
  • Ziggy and brother Stephen write and produce all of the tracks on the album and, as expected, reggae beats litter every song. However, R&B and extensive use of keyboards enhance and strengthen the record, demonstrating that the band has the ability to grow and experiment while staying true to their Jamaican roots.

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    #Track TitleTime
    1Power To Move Ya
    Power to Move Ya

    I got the power to move ya
    I got the power to move ya
    I got the power to move ya
    JAH got the power to move ya

    Don't take it simple
    Babylon get trample
    Them could a big and bad
    Have you ever seen love mad
    Is not a big ak
    Is not a nuclear bomb
    The system try to stop the power
    No way they can
    I got the power to move you

    I got the power to move ya
    JAH got the power to move ya
    Now I say things happen just like that
    When music play who knows what step will drop
    Can you feel if it's creeping up on you
    It's gonna get you berfore you know what to do
    Turn you inside out
    Make you scream and shout
    The vibe is building
    Crazy reggae rhythm

    I got the power to move you
    I got the power to move ya
    JAH got the power to move ya
    JAH got the power to move ya

    So don't you try to sotp
    What you feel inside
    When we hit that spot
    We tell ya world collide
    Some people try to stick
    TO what they know outside
    Acting like a programmed chip
    We tell them free they mind

    I got the power to move you
    I got the power to move ya
    JAH got the power to move ya
    JAH got the power to move ya


    Ziggy Marley : Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Synth
    Robert Brownie: Drums
    Christopher Meredith : Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Guitar
    Glen Brownie: Guitar
    Ian Coleman: Guitar
    Horns: Dean Fraiser, Junior Chin, Ronald Robinson
    Cedella Marley : Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast : Background Vocals
    Erica Newell : Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Paul Fox
    3:36
    2Free Like We Want 2 Be
    Free like we want to be
    Some time you want to get off
    Leave the work and take off
    But the boss man say you gonna lose you pay
    No chain on your feet now
    9 to 5 got you beat now
    You working hard to save
    Inflation like a tidal wave

    Are we free like we want to be
    Tell me are we free like we want to be
    Are we free like we want to be
    Tell me are we free like we want to be

    Racist get defeat
    Black Man vote and take you seat
    Now them think we gonna quiet
    Maybe we start a riot
    Whan happen to the diamond they stole
    The innocent blood run cold
    Do we still have to live in poverty
    Now they say we're free to be poor
    But are we free like we want to be
    Black Man are we free like we want to be

    Tell me are we free like want to be
    Are you free are you free
    Kept in emotion
    Will cause an explosion
    Let your love go
    Let me know
    Some people expect
    That's not what them get
    Become no slave
    Of them evil and wicked ways

    Are we free like we want to be
    Are we free like we want to be
    Are you free like you want to be
    Are we free like we want to be

    Can't walk the streets late at night
    Without fear of parasite
    Everyone has a inborn right
    A inborn right to live
    Who gave us the reason to fight
    By promoting negative vibes
    Who taught us of drugs and crime
    Now they say we're free to homicide
    Committing geoncide
    We freely homicide committing genocide

    Man we free like we want to be
    Black Man we free like we want to be
    Tell me we free like we want to be
    Are you free like you want to be
    We want to be free
    Free like we want to be


    Ziggy Marley : Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Synth
    Wilburn Cole: Drums
    Christopher Meredith : Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Mallory Williams: Piano
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Ian Coleman: Guitar
    Cedella Marley : Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast : Background Vocals
    Stephen Marley: Background Vocals
    Erica Newell : Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Paul Fox
    4:47
    3Today
    It's give a little more to the EARTH today
    Let's forget them politicans today
    Put down your weapons of war today
    Let's just love everyone love
    Today
    Tomorrow will never come
    Tomorrow is never here
    So don't you put off wht we can do right now
    'Cause tomorrow will never appear
    Today
    Who will forget the value of money today
    Remember what life is worth
    Is this the human race
    Put all material wants behind today
    Let's just seek to be spiritually divine
    Today
    So don't you take the negative they're sending
    Never you pat from this positive something
    Share the joy my love is giving
    So sweet divine in tune with mine life worth living
    Today
    Why don't you give a little more to the EARTH today
    Let us forget them politican today
    Put down your weapons of war today
    Let's just love everyone love
    Today


    Robert Brownie: Drums
    Glen Brownie : Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Mallory Williams: Piano
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Guitar
    Ziggy Marley : Background vocals
    Cedella Marley : Lead and Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast : Lead and Background Vocals
    Stephen Marley: Background Vocals
    Erica Newell : Lead and Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Paul Fox
    3:18
    4Water and Oil
    Dem try fi hold hold wha dem can't conquer
    Rastaman no mix up with no vagavanga
    [repeat]
    They want to condemn the innocent
    For crimes which we did not committ
    They want to get good people mix up
    In their bag of tricks

    But water and oil can't mix
    Water and oil don't mix
    [repeat]

    Say dem try fi hold hold wha dem can't conquer
    Rastaman no mix up with no vagavanga
    [repeat]

    Hear this! naah go like the son if you no like the father
    True we manifest under the same order
    Cock your ears and listen me want you hear ya part ya
    But first come in papa Ziggy as the eldest brother
    Yes I hear the lies they've told
    Dem says Rasta did this and this
    What is the politican role
    Is it to create conflicts

    But water and oil can't mix
    Water and oil don't mix
    [repeat]

    Jah who I praise break your silence
    Now that the wicked is accusing
    Attacking for no reason
    All we did was pray for them
    Now the way things happen fast
    Some things me naah go member
    But the day did cool cool and collective lya
    Nest thing me know some unwanted visitors
    Some devil worshipping Rasta hating cold-blooded murdera
    Never get get wha dem expect dem expect lamb fi slaughter

    Hear this! This is Ragamuffin and him hitting harder
    We get up from weh we sit down to a strategic corner
    Me and the bwoy dem eye mek four me mek a nervous swallow
    Prip around from left to right me look pon all me brother
    Hold me head to the sky and make a final prayer
    Zoom! zoom! And everything take cover
    Look how fast lightning rod back out in all a dem face
    Quick! Me back out me no member wha it name
    Them enver know the youth them would not lose them faith
    Through the grace of the Father everything set straight
    Water and oil can't mix


    Robert Brownie: Drums
    Wilburn Cole: Drums, Piano
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Mallory Williams: Synths
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Guitar
    Ian Coleman: Guitar
    Stephen Marley: Vocals, Drums
    Ziggy Marley : Vocals, Guitar, Synths
    Cedella Marley : Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast : Background Vocals
    Erica Newell : Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:27
    5Live It Up
    If life means what it means to me
    Happiness come from the way we live
    Not the money we receive
    'Cause even the poor man is rich
    Love in our hearts
    Health strength and longevity

    Live it up
    Live it up don't give it up
    [repeat]

    If right means what it means to me
    Before words were spoken
    JAH law was written within
    IF right means what it means to you
    What the preacher say is not what the prach do

    Live it up
    Live it up don't give it up
    [repeat]

    Life for me
    life for you life for me
    Life for you
    [repeat]

    There is no owner's manual for the life that we lead
    Learn as you grow
    More power to you
    In life there's many stages but don't you quit
    'Cause when the table turn more power to you
    More powe to you
    Good now
    Everyone feeling
    Good now
    [repeat]

    Living
    Giving
    Sharing
    Loving
    Living
    Giving
    Sharing
    Loving
    Live it up
    Live it up
    Don't give it up
    [repeat]


    Wilburn Cole: Drums
    Chris Meredith: Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Keyboards
    Mallory Williams: Keyboards
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Glen Brownie: Guitar
    Ziggy Marley: Lead vocal, Guitar, B3 Organ,
    Background vocals, Keyboards
    Cedella Marley: Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background Vocals
    Erica Newell: Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:18
    6Tipsy Dazy
    Miss Tipsy Dazy you're topsy turvy
    Say one minute everything seem fine
    Tipsy Dazy you're topsy turvy
    The next minute we're in a puss and dog fight
    That's not really right

    Seems as the day grow old
    Our love grow cold
    Remember you been told
    Love can't be bought nor sold

    Tipsy Dazy you're topsy turvy
    Say one minute everything's just right dynamite
    Tipsy Dazy you're topsy turvy
    Next minute we're in this great big fight
    That ain't my style of life

    When everything seem secure
    I can't just be too sure
    'Cause you can wake up one day
    Not in love any more
    Hey! Remember you've been told
    Love can't be bought nor sold
    Seems as the days grow old
    Our love grow cold

    Tipsy Dazy topsy turvy saying
    One minute everything seem right
    Tipsy Dazy you're topsy turvy
    Next minute we're in this great big fight
    That's not really right
    Once more can't say you never been told
    Love can't be bought or sold

    But it seems as tehm days grow
    Our heat grow cold
    Tipsy Dazy your're topsy turvy
    One minute everything just fine really divine
    Tipsy Dazy you're really turvy
    Next next minute next minute next minute yea
    Tipsy, Tipsy Dazy topsy, really turvy
    One minute we're in a great big fight


    Wilburn Cole: Drums
    Christopher Meredith : Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Mallory Williams: Piano
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar
    Ian Coleman: Guitar, Rhythm guitar
    Cedella Marley : Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast : Background Vocals
    Stephen Marley: Lead vocal, Rhythm guitar
    Erica Newell : Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:13
    7Bygones
    Naah laugh it off, can't laugh it off
    We can't let bygones be bygones anymore
    For this time we naah laugh it off
    Tell we when you're ready and we'll come settle the score

    But this time we naah laugh at all
    A prudent man he seeketh knowledge
    I'm saying though
    Only a fool lean up on his folly
    The wicked heart knows pure bitterness
    I'm saying though never get a righteous man vex
    Oh we've let bygones be bygones before
    But this time we naah laugh it off
    We won't let bygones be bygones anymore
    For time time we naah laugh at all
    This time we naah laugh it off
    We can't let bygones be bygones
    Oh this time we naah laugh it off
    Oh we've let bygones be bygones before

    But this time we naah laugh at all
    A prudent man he seeketh knowledge
    I tell you this
    Only the fool lean up on the folly
    The wicked heart knows pure bitterness
    I tell you this never get a righteous man vex
    We've let bygones be bygones before
    This time we naah laugh it off
    We can't let bygones be bygones anymore
    But this time we naah laugh at all
    Say this time me naah laugh it off


    Wilburn Cole: Drums
    Julian Marley: Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Mallory Williams: Synths
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Ian Coleman: Guitar
    Ziggy Marley: Guitar
    Cedella Marley: Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background Vocals
    Stephen Marley: Lead vocal, Rhythm guitar
    Erica Newell: Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:44
    8Hand to Mouth
    Power to the workers
    More power
    Power to the workers
    We need more power
    Power to the workers
    Got to have more power
    Power to the workers
    We need more power

    Free zone workers you working hard everyday
    But all the work you do don't get enough pay
    I mad I still don't know why I still don't know why
    Is minimum wage for your sufferation have no more toleration

    Hand to mouth can't work
    Hand to mouth can't work
    Hand to mouth business no it can't work
    [cho]
    School teachers you working hard educatring
    But all the work you do they take you for a play thing
    I mad I still don't know why I still don't know why
    Is little bit a pay for your contribution and you mean so much to the nation
    [cho]
    Me say me naah get enough good weh day
    All thema work is like them naah get no pay
    Naah get enough food from weh day
    All the work we work is like we naah get no pay
    Watching everything go up in inflation
    Food price go up and man pay a go down
    Ask some a them
    Them telling short long
    But in a corner we wings and a jam
    Ragga ragga a watch the notion
    Say we naah get no good food from weh day
    Naah sow no good seed from weh day
    Naah sow no good seed from weh day
    Naah get enough food weh day
    Our nurses saving lives everyday
    But all the lives you save you don't get enough pay

    I mad I still don't know why
    I still don't know why
    Is little bit a pay for your life savings
    what a grave they're digging
    [cho]
    Now our farmers them digging hard every day
    But all the food they grow import them a say
    That make me mad that make me mad mad mad mad
    Mad mad mad mad

    Is little bit a pay for your mama too and
    your sister got to shop for two
    Oh civil servants you working hard everyday and
    you sweating out for your pay
    but I man still don't know why

    Still don't know why is little bit
    a pay everyday what you got to take away
    Woy! woy! woy! woy! woy!
    [cho]
    Me say me naah get enough good from weh day
    all the talk we talk is like we naah
    Naah get no good yood from weh day all the bawl we bawl
    say them no hear wha we a say
    Workers a the backbone a the whole island
    don't treat them right is total confusion
    Can't go no doctor for no medication
    School but no teacher no education
    Pay more dollars to the foundation
    Naah get enough pay from weh day musician a suffer but a play
    same way engineer a bawl how him pay too small
    Can't build him house with no concrete wall
    Bass man a cry bout him can't get string
    Have the contacts and can't bring them in raggamuffin dj and sing

    Lord naah get enough good from weh day
    all the talk we talk is like we naah Lord
    Naah get no good yood from weh day
    all the bawl we bawl say them no hear wha we a say
    Watching everything go up in inflation
    Food price go up and man pay a god down
    Some a them
    Them telling short
    Long
    Ragga ragga deh pon the version
    Ziggy zaggy a watch the movements



    Robert Brownie: Drums
    Christopher Meredith: Bass
    Glen Brownie: Keyboard
    Ziggy Marley: Guitar
    Cedella Marley: Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background Vocals
    Stephen Marley: Background Vocals
    Erica Newell: Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    5:22
    9In the Flow
    No need to get down no need to get low
    In the flow
    Rastaman that speaketh love is what he preacheth
    In the flow
    Politicans fighting to stop I from lighting
    But in harmony we'll smoke the tree
    In the flow, in the flow
    What they really fighting is INITY
    Love for one another EQUALITY
    In the flow, in the flow
    Ain't no need to worry
    Ain't no need to hurry
    In the flow

    Light up my fire
    What is your desire
    In the flow
    High science that teacheth
    Full moon that preacheth
    Still
    In reality
    Getting high naturally
    In the flow, in the flow

    What they really fighting is INITY
    Love for one another EQUALITY
    Vibe
    I'm in the flow yeah
    Vibe
    No eed to get down no need to get low
    In the flow
    Rastaman that speaking and it's love
    that I'm preachin'
    In the flow
    Yow
    Wah agwaan you nuh have nuttn' good deh
    Love my sister respect so what we get together nuh
    Get some good vibes going in unity you know
    No war no drugs in love and in harmony let us smoke this tree
    In the flow
    Yea
    Sister go
    [repeat]
    Ain't no need o worry
    Ain't no need to hurry
    [repeat]


    Christopher Meredith: Bass
    Glen Brownie: Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Organ, Synths
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Ian Coleman: Guitar
    Ziggy Marley: Lead Vocal, Guitar, Drums, Synths
    Cedella Marley: Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background Vocals
    Erica Newell: Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:30
    10Don't Go Nowhere
    Don't go nowhere
    Oh can't you see
    That I still care
    And my love it is strong

    With all of my heart I do
    With all of my breath I say
    Wanting to see you
    Each and everyday

    Some good things are gone
    Some are on their way
    And I'm telling you
    I'm begging you
    Please stay

    Don't go nowhere
    Oh can't you see
    That I still care
    My love yes it strong

    Speak no word
    Utter no sound
    I wanna tell you
    I got to tell you
    How I'm feeling right now

    My love is all
    My heart is still fond
    I mean my hopes and my dreams
    Can come true wsith only one
    DOn't go nowhere

    Oh can't you see
    That I still care
    My love yes I strong
    All emotions you will feel

    I will fill your empty needs
    I'm not promising you heaven
    But as close as we could be

    You're more than a blessing
    You're a miracle to me
    And I can't do without you
    No way
    You see you're my everything
    So I'm giving in
    Don't go nowhere

    Oh can't you see
    That I still care
    My love it is strong
    Don't go nowhere

    I need you
    Don't go nowhere
    I love you
    Don't go nowhere
    My heart yearns
    Don't go nowhere
    Can you understand me baby
    My love is all
    Don't go nowhere
    My heart is still fond
    Don't go nowhere
    Don't go nowhere
    You're my only one



    Wilburn Cole: Drums
    Glen Brownie: Bass, Piano
    Carol McLaughlin: B3 Organ and Intro Piano
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Ian Coleman: Guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead Guitar
    Ziggy Marley: Lead Vocal, Guitar, Drums, Synths
    Cedella Marley: Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background Vocals
    Erica Newell: Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    5:51
    11G7
    Seven richest countries in the world
    Them have a little meeting
    Them a plan to keep and oppress the poor
    So them have a little meeting
    But when them think then thing goes another way
    Yes when them think then thing goes another way

    Did you hear about these meetings
    No you won't find poor countries there
    Because of capitalist greed
    Revolution seem to be the only way
    It may be an old fashion way of thinking
    But I believe in the people and these aims

    'Cause when them think then things go the people way
    One day dem deh deh dem no deh deh
    When them think then things go the the people way
    One day dem deh deh dem no deh deh

    These countries want to stay on top
    So they'll find any way
    To them third world people life is but a small price to be paid
    They think they're great feeling no one can touch them
    Well them have a next thing comin'

    'Cause when them think then things go the people way
    One day dem deh deh dem no deh deh
    Oh when them think then thing goes another way
    One day dem deh deh dem no deh deh

    Seven richest things in the world
    What do they do for the people
    Look at America the so-called best
    How many homeless
    Where the money went
    In the sky on weapons of death
    WHy don't they write the needy some more checks

    'Cause when them think then thing goes another way
    One day dem deh deh dem no deh deh
    When them think then things go the the people way
    One day dem deh deh dem no deh deh

    Steve Marley: Drums, Background Vocals
    Glen Brownie: Talking drums and Piano
    Christopher Meredith: Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Ian Coleman: Guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead Guitar
    Ziggy Marley: Lead Vocal, Guitar, Drums, B3 Organ
    Cedella Marley: Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background Vocals
    Erica Newell: Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:03
    12Keep On
    We keep on
    Keep on
    Keep on
    Keep cool

    Keep calm
    Keep real
    Hey never you let them get you down
    You might never come around
    Never you let them out your fire
    You won't get your heart desire

    Never you let them out your fire
    Say keep cool
    Keep calm
    Keep real
    Real warm
    Keep pure
    Keep strong and keep on together now

    The sweat a man brow
    Man eat you bread
    [repeat]
    Dread

    Keep on
    Keep on
    Keep cool
    Keep calm
    Keep pure
    Keep strong
    Keep on
    Hey don't you dare fear that whindy narrow
    Your today spells your tomorrow
    Don't you fear that windy narrow
    Your today spells your tomorrow
    Don't you fear that windy narrow

    Say keep cool
    Keep Calm
    Keep pure
    Keep strong
    Keep right
    Not wrong
    Yea
    Keep
    Together now
    Never you let them get you down
    For you might never come around
    Never you let them out your fire
    For you won't get your heart desire
    Never you let them out your fire
    Iya
    Say keep on
    Keep on
    Keep on
    Keep on
    Keep on
    Keep on
    Keep on
    Don't you dare let them get you down
    For you might never come around
    Never you let them out your fire
    For you won't get your heart desire
    Never you let them out your fire Rasta

    Keep keep keep
    Keep on
    Say we got to keep
    Keep on
    Keep you sense of direction
    Keep on


    Wilburn Cole: Drums
    Ras Michael: Nyabinghi Drums
    Chris Meredith: Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Mallory Williams: Keyboards
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Glen Brownie: Guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Guitar
    Stephen Marley: Lead vocal, Synths, Percussion and Skete Drum
    Ziggy Marley: Piano, Guitar, Synths
    Cedella Marley: Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background Vocals
    Erica Newell: Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:24
    13Beautiful Mother Nature
    Beautiful Mother Nature
    She looked at me with a smile on her face
    Then she started to cry
    She said why did my children forsake me

    She felt like she was dying
    Oh ungrateful children
    When she was young she was beautiful and strong
    The more children se had the more things went wrong
    Now she's feeling old and cold
    And her heart doesn't feel love anymore

    Beautiful Mother Nature
    She sat me down and told me to sing her a song
    Maybe it would make her feel better
    Maybe her children would sing along

    And see the wrong we have done
    Make amends to mend her heart
    She still wouldn't hate none of her children
    No matter what cruel things they've done
    She'll always be there when her babies are crying
    She's a mother a mother you can depend on

    Beautiful Mother Nature
    She's hoping her children will love her again
    Like once she remember
    Before skyscrapers and chemical plants
    When she was all that we had
    Before they polluted her sacred land
    Now her tears are falling like acid rain
    And her voice sounds like earthquake

    I had to beg her Mother please don't leave
    Give another chance I'll take to the kids
    Beautiful Mother Nature
    She was my
    Beautiful Mother Nature
    Still is my
    Beautiful Mother Nature
    She is my
    Beautiful Mother Nature
    Still is my


    Wilburn Cole: Drums
    Chris Meredith: Bass
    Carol McLaughlin: Synths
    Mallory Williams: Keyboards
    Uzziah Thompson: Percussion
    Glen Brownie: Percussion
    Robert Brownie: Guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Acoustic Guitar
    Ray Hitchins: Acoustic Guitar
    Stephen Marley: Synths, Percussion and Skete Drum
    Ziggy Marley: Lead vocal, Piano, Guitar, Percussion

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:56
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Joy and Blues

  • Joy and Blues
    1993
  • Joy and Blues is Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers' most personal album to date. Within the album, the group members explore their beliefs, adeptly expanding them into universal themes.

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    1Joy and Blues
    Joy and Blues (repeat 3 times)

    Here we are in this ocean
    Between life and death and truth and lie
    Between rich and poor and sick and cure
    Between joy and blues (joy and blues)

    Here we are in this ocean
    Between light a day and dark a night
    Between nature and destruction
    Between joy and blues (joy and blues)

    Choose well and make sure you don't lose
    Do what you gotta do
    'Cause if it's money you put down
    It's only money you could lose
    Choose well and make sure you don't lose
    Pick your choice - choose well
    'Cause when your life is on the line
    It's only life you can lose
    Alright

    We have the potion
    To clear all evil notion
    Putting these words in motion
    I refuse to give joy to blues
    Tell me why should we live between
    joy and blues

    Choose well and make sure you don't lose
    Do what you gotta do
    'Cause if a money you put down
    It's only money you can lose don't you know
    Choose well and make sure you don't lose
    Pick your choice - choose well
    'Cause when your life is on the line
    It's only life you can lose
    Joy and blues (repeat 2 times)

    Solo

    Here we are in the big blue sea
    Between faith and trust and hypocrisy
    Between wants and needs, between joy and blues
    Here we are in this ocean
    Between fantasy and destiny, between quality and quantity
    Between joy and blues, between joy and blues
    Between joy and blues... (repeat)

    Choose well and make sure you don't lose
    Do what you gotta do
    'Cause if a money you put down
    It's only money you could lose
    Just choose well and make sure you don't lose
    Pick your choice - choose well
    When your life is on the line, your life is on the line
    Your life is on the line, only life you can lose
    Choose well choose well choose well make sure you don't lose
    Choose well choose well choose well make sure you don't lose


    Drums: Wilburn "Squidly" Cole
    Bass: Christopher Meredith
    Guitars: Ian Coleman, Earl "Chinna" Smith
    Keyboards: Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin
    Lead vocal: David "Ziggy" Marley
    Background vocal: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast, Erica Newell

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:10
    2Brothers and Sisters
    I am my mama's son
    You are your father's child
    Sometimes we act as if we hate each other
    A different faith, different state of mind
    That don't mean we all can't be satisfied

    We are all brothers and sisters (repeat)

    Some are black and brown
    Others white and light
    That's the difference I can remember

    A different face, a different kind of smile
    That's what we see
    But this we must realize

    We are all brothers and sisters (repeat)

    Earth is my mother, there is no other
    So for you, so for all of I
    Don't look me with a scorn
    In time mankind was born
    So for you, so for all of I
    Love must live, hate must die
    Don't draw no line, don't you be so blind

    We are all brothers and sisters (repeat)

    I am no stranger in your town
    Rasta seed is all around
    So when you are looking at me
    Don't think I am your enemy

    I am your father's son
    You are your mama's child
    Sometimes we act as if we hate each other
    A different faith, a different state of mind
    That don't mean we all can't be satisfied

    Brothers and sisters we are all
    Brothers and sisters all and all
    (repeat)

    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    guitars: Ian Coleman, Earl "Chinna" Smith
    keyboards: Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin, Mallory Williams
    percussions: Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson, David "Ziggy" Marley
    lead vocals: David "Ziggy" Marley
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast,
    Rita Marley

    Producers
    Melody Makers
    2:49
    3There She Goes
    Oh, the truth hurts now, more than the lie
    Tell you teh truth, now I'm blamed to be wrong
    I wear no disguise
    But I trod on through those memories
    That haunt me, that haunt me
    I trod on through those memories
    that haunt me oh man that haunt me

    Theere she goes crying again
    But her loveliness won't cover her shame
    And there she goes, taking true love
    While she's taking true love, she's given the blame

    How could I be so wrong
    To think that we could get along
    Days I've spent wasted with you child
    If I count they'd be a million or two

    But I walk on through that memory
    That haunts me oh man that haunts me
    I say I trod on through that angry grief
    That taunt me, that taunts me

    There she goes crying again
    But her sexiness wn't cover her shame
    And there she goes she's taking her true love
    But while she's taking true love, she's given the blame

    How, how, how could I be so wrong
    To think that we could work out
    Days I've spent wasted with you child
    If I could count they'd be a million or two

    Now I walk on through taht rocky reef
    That wants me and that wanted me
    Woman I walk on through that angry grief
    That taunts me, I say that taunts me

    Solo

    Oh, the truth hurts now, more than the lie, lie
    I tell you the truth, now I'm blamed to be
    wrong I wear no disguise, no I
    There she goes crying again
    But her loveliness won't cover her shame
    And there she goes, she's taking her true love
    While she's taking true love, she's given the blame

    How could I be so dumb
    To think that we could have some fun
    Days I've wasted with you child
    If I count, they'd be a million or two

    Now I walk on through those memories
    That wants me oh man that wants me
    I said I trod on through that angry grief
    that taunts me I know it taunts me

    There she goes crying again
    But her sweet caress won't cover her shame
    And there she goes, she's taking true love
    While she's taking true love, she's given the blame

    How could I be so wrong
    To think that we could work out
    Why should I be so dumb
    To think that we could have some fun

    There she goes crying again (repeat 2 times)

    drum programming: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    guitars: Earl "Chinna" Smith, David "Ziggy" Marley
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin
    lead vocals: David "Ziggy" Marley
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast,
    Stephen Marley, Erica Newell

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:53
    4Talk
    Well, I know there is Jah out there to be found
    Yes, I know there is Jah out there to be found
    They claim to be who they aren't
    What theyt seem to have found
    See they claim to be who they aren't
    What theyt seem to have found

    Falsely proclaimed, popes and priests
    They claim they are the closet to God
    But who are you, and how can you be
    How can you be who you aren't?

    All they do is talk
    yes, all they do is talk
    Dem chatty mouth a bark
    Well all they do is talk

    Woman, I know there is Jah out there to be found
    Yes, my people I know we is Rasta all around
    Now they think they know little of everything
    But they don't know fart
    Some intellectuals think they know a little of everything
    But they don't know naught, naught

    Hey, it's not what's on the outside my brethren
    It's what's in the heart
    And the real you is inside of you my sistren
    You know who you really are

    All they do is talk
    Yes, all they do is talk
    That's all they do is talk
    Watch them chatty mouth a bark

    Blessed be Jah my rock who teaches my hands
    to wage war and my fingers to do the battle.
    My love, my fortress, my strong hold, my deliverer, my shield in whom I've taken
    refuge and the one who subdues my people under me.
    Oh Jah, what is man? Man is breath, his days are like passing shadow.
    Oh, Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend, touch the mountains so that they
    smoke, flash forth the lightning and strike them, shoot forth thy arrows and
    confound them.

    I know there is revolution brewing, I can see
    People, I know there is a solution in you and me
    Now they think they can fool all the people
    But they can't and they ain't
    Yes, they think they can fool all the people
    But they ain't cause they can't

    Falsely proclaimed leaders
    They claim they're the leaders of men
    But what is this, who are you?
    And how can you be, how can you be
    Who you ain't?

    All they do is talk
    Yes, all they do is talk
    Promise you this, promise you that
    chat behind the innocent back (repeat)
    Them chatty mouth a bark
    Yes all they do is talk
    Them chatty mouth a bark
    And all they do is talk
    Promise you this, promise you that
    chat behind the innocent back (repeat)

    All they do is talk, them chatty mouth a bark (repeat 3 times)

    Them chatty mouth a bark and them can't defend them talk

    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    guitars: Ian Coleman, Earl "Chinna" Smith
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin
    percussion: Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson
    lead vocal: David "Ziggy" Marley
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast, Erica Newell

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:08
    5Rebel in Disguise
    If you don't see me smiling
    It got nothing to do with you
    My papa been on the rock so long
    Inherited a permanent screw (repeat 3 times)

    If you don't see me smiling
    It ain't no concern of you
    My mama been on the rock for so long
    Inherited a permanenet screw (repeat 3 times)

    So you won't even know me
    'Cause you can't look me in the eye
    Well onlyl then my friend you would see
    That I am a rebel in disguise
    Said I am a rebel in disguise
    And I am a rebel in disguise
    We are rebels in disguise
    We are rebels in disguise

    If you don't catch me smiling
    Said I have got serious on my mind
    Want to tell you a little story
    We are living in a serious time (repeat)

    Said a fire deh, said a fire deh
    Fire deh a mus mus tall
    You think a cool breeze
    Life is real hard
    But you think it gonna ease
    By letting the pressure pile up on me
    The baby crying

    You come and ask us for a dollar bill
    And we give you ten
    Simply mean you should not be coming back again
    Simply mean you go home and learn to help yourself

    You are putting, you are putting on the pressure
    Making it, making it much harder

    If you don't see me smiling
    It ain't got nothing to do with you
    (repeat 3 times)
    Then again you might have done something wrong
    And you don't know where you belong
    (repeat 3 times)
    So you won't really know us

    We are rebels in disgusie
    Said I am a rebel in disguise (repeat 2 times)
    And we are rebels in disguise (repeat 2 times)
    Fire de a mus mus tail
    And you think a cool breeze
    Your life is real hard but you think it's gonna ease
    By letting the pressure pile up on me

    drums: Wilburn "Squidly" Cole
    bass: Glen Browne
    guitars: David "Ziggy" Marley, Ian Coleman, Earl "Chinna" Smith
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, David "Ziggy" Marley, Caro "Bowie" McLaughlin
    trombone: Nambo
    lead vocals: Stephen Marley

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:00
    6X Marks the Spot3:13
    7Head Top
    The session is nice, feel real good
    The set is playing some wicked riddim
    I see some girls wining on their head tops (repeat)

    Police pass through, don't even try and stop it
    'Cause they know who is running it
    Send for the suru board
    Lala give it to me on the dance floor
    Cedella just fly in from New York
    She deh pon the scene

    Girls from Backtu. Girls from Spain
    Girls from Trenchtown, Girls from Payne
    Girls from south and Matches Lane
    When the music hit you feel no pain

    A park outside, some youth dem come to greet me
    A got to shine some light
    To make the youth dem walk more freely
    Talk on the mic, a sing a song them call stop joke
    And then a rope in Steve fi come D.J. rat trap for me

    Chorus:
    Wining on their head tops, wining on their head tops
    Is a African ting
    (repeat)

    Girls from New York, girls from L.A.
    Girls from Accra, girls from J.A.
    Girls from Japan, girls from Chile
    The music hit you feel irie

    Solo

    Brazil, Japan, New York, London
    Farout, Jamdown, Falmouth, St. Ann
    You have girls that come around
    No tek man fi clown
    Love the ragsta, only him alone
    Jammin on the riddim mek ina you back bone
    Watch it baby love, you enter ina my zone

    Police pass through, don't even try and stop it
    Dem done know who is running it
    Send for the suru board, Lala give to me on the dance floor
    Cedella just fly in from New York
    She deh pon the scene

    Wining on your head tops, wining on your head tops
    Is a African ting
    (repeat)

    Girls from uptown, and girls from downtown
    Girls from Spanishtown
    Girls from Hanna Town, girls from Rema
    Girls from Jungle, Girls from Scheme
    Girls that love the Zigman, only him alone, only him alone
    You winning in the session and you haffi boogie down
    No si down ina corner and gwan like a clown

    Haffi boogie down, girls from town
    Must boogie down, girls from all around
    Girls from north, south, east and then to the west
    Ina the place modelling off dem best
    Some ina tights and some ina dress
    Girls on them head tops, body contest, body contest
    Love the Zigman, girl do your best, body contest
    Love the ruggedy, ruggedy the best

    drum programmer: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    guitars: Earl "Chinna" Smith
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin
    lead vocal: David "Ziggy" Marley
    DJ Vocals: Stephen Marley
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast,
    Erica Newell, Wilburn Cole, Christopher Meredith, Ian Coleman,
    David Marley, Carol McLaughlin

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:05
    8African Herbsman
    Oh twinkling we
    Can't see the right roads when the streets are big
    That old slave mill might grind slow
    But it grinds fine
    African Herbsman why linger on
    Just concentrate 'cause heaven lives on
    Retire slave men will look with a scorn
    With a transplanted heart
    That's how quick they have to part
    That's how quick

    The remembrance of today
    Sad feeling of tomorrow oh yeah
    African herbsman seize your time
    Taking illusion to the edge of my mind
    Taking loses down through my life
    Down through my life yes
    That's how quick
    That's how quick

    Do they part yes they part
    In remembrance of today oh yeah
    African Herbsman why linger on
    Just concentrate 'cause heaven lives on
    Retired slave men will look with a scorn
    With a transplanted heart 'cause that's how quick
    That's how quick

    The remembrance of today sad feeling of tomorrow
    Lead me oh Lord, Lord, Lord I pray
    African Herbsman (repeat 5 times)

    Oh twinkling we
    Can't see the road when the streets are big
    That old slave mill might grind slow
    But it grinds fine
    African Herbsman seize your time
    Taking illusion on the edge of my mind
    Taking loses down through their lives
    Down through their lives
    The African Herbsman (repeat 3 times)

    drums: Wilburn "Squidly" Cole
    bass: Glen Browne
    guitars: Earl "Chinna" Smith, David "Ziggy" Marley
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin
    akete: Harry "T"
    lead vocals: Stephen Marley
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast,
    Erica Newell
    3:13
    9World So Corrupt
    When will the blind see, when will the deaf hear
    Why should the babe shed so many tear drops
    And the wicked man not even a sigh
    And those wicked men not even a sigh

    'Cause we are living in a world so corrupt
    We are living in a world so corrupt (repeat 3 times)

    Lies they sell cheaper than bread
    What they do starve the people of truth
    Secretly the system programme the pain
    In disguise of every day life problems (repeat)

    We are living in a world so corrupt (repeat)
    Yeah, I am living in this world so corrupt
    You are living in a world so corrupt

    There is a way which seems so right to men
    But it end leadeth to destruction
    Even in gladness the heart weeps
    And the end of joy is grief
    Oh the end of joy is grief

    Don't lose your way find it today
    And don't drop the speed, people in need
    Don't lose your way, find it today
    I don't drop my speed, the people in need

    We are living in a world, living in a world, living in a world
    Mama, I have got to change it
    We are living in a world, living in a world, living in a world
    On daddy, Oh daddy, I remember you told me
    Living in a world, living in a world, living in a world
    That's so corrupt now, that's so corrupt now
    Living in a world so corrupt, got to be tough
    Got to be rough, got to be tough, got to be rough now

    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    guitars: Earl "Chinna" Smith, Ian Coleman
    keyboards: Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin, David "Ziggy" Marley
    percussions: Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson
    brass: Dean Frazier, Nambo, Chico Chin, David Madden
    lead vocal: David "Ziggy" Marley
    background vocal: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast, Erica Newell,
    Stephen Marley

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:18
    10Garden
    In the garden of righteousness
    Where to weep is to learn
    There the wicked is no contest
    We conquer them all

    Jah don't spare the rod so the man can't spoil (repeat)

    In the garden of wickedness
    You reap what you sow
    There the youth should dare not go
    Remember what you've been told

    Jah don't spare the rod so the man can't spoil (repeat)

    In the garden of fruitfulness
    You plan and it will grow
    There death is of no threat
    Life ever flows

    Jah don't spare the rod so the man can't spoil (repeat)

    In the garden of happiness
    Where life is at its best
    Despair is far from near
    I am free from all material care

    Jah don't spare the rod so the man can't spoil (repeat)

    In the garden of righteousness
    Where to weep is to learn
    There the wicked is no contest
    We've conquered them all

    Jah don't spare the rod so the man can't spoil (repeat 3 times)

    Never spare your rod from me (repeat)

    Jah never spare that rod from me
    I need it desperately

    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Aston "Family Man" Barrett
    guitar: Ian Coleman, Earl "Chinna" Smith
    keyboards: Mallory Williams, Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin
    percussion: Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson
    sound effects: Glen Browne, Christopher Meredith
    lead vocal: David "Ziggy" Marley
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast, Erica Newell,
    Stephen Marley
    Prayer: Addis Gessesse

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:31
    11Mama
    Mama I don't ever want to see you cry
    If then they knew him
    They'd have passed right by
    Oh Joseph's a man of many women, feel no way
    Oh always remember you are the first of them

    So oh Mama
    If they could see where we are coming from
    The other day
    Then they would know just where they belong
    If they could see where you're coming from
    Just the other day
    They would know just where they belong

    Let stumbling blocks fall out of your way
    Lord know, Lord knows your reward shall be great
    They were broken off through their lack of faith
    But because of your faith you are still in place
    Woe Mama, if they could see where you're coming from
    Just the other day
    Then they would know just where you are coming from
    If they could see where you are coming from
    Just the other day
    Then they would know just where they belong

    Solo

    Ah my children
    Oh Mama
    Fret not for me
    I know Jah will be there
    Eternally

    If they could see where we are coming from
    Just the other day
    Then they would know just where they belong
    If they could see where we are coming from
    Then they would know just where they belong

    Mama I don't ever want to see you cry
    Ain't no lie
    If then they knew him
    They would have passed right by
    So many called but you were chosen
    And so you will remain outspoken
    Oh Mama
    If they could see where we are coming from
    Just the other day
    Then they would know just where they belong

    Mama I don't ever want to see you cry
    Ain't no lie
    If then they knew him
    They would have passed right by
    So many called but you were chosen
    And so you will remain outspoken
    Oh Mama
    If they could see where we are coming from
    Just the other day
    Then they would know just where they belong

    If they could see where we are coming from
    Just the other day
    Then they would know just where they belong
    Then they would know
    Yes they would know

    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    guitars: Ian Coleman, Earl "Chinna" Smith
    keyboards: Carl "Bowie" McLaughlin
    saxophone: Dean Frasier
    lead vocals: Stephen Marley
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast, Rita Marley

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    4:04
    12This One
    History been renamed
    Time have no friend
    Who you a go warn, when the real war come on
    A no we you have to warn when the truth bust out

    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one (repeat 4 times)

    Malcolm X, Garvey, Martin, Marley,
    Mohammed, Yesus Christ
    Strive and free your life
    Don't play their games
    Don't put your mind to waste, don't put your mind to waste

    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one
    This is the one that is this one
    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one
    This is the one that is this one

    Propaganda machine working overtime
    Now more than ever on the younger minds
    Don't just believe everything you see on the t.v.
    Don't just believe everything you read in the magazine

    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one
    This is the one that is this one
    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one
    This is the one that is this one

    People have their place
    Race has its pace
    Each blow a the right one
    Every blow carries a weight

    No giving up in I, I will keep the faith
    No giving up in I, fight them racist hate
    No no no no no no no no you can't do nothing 'bout it
    You can't do nothing 'bout it

    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one
    This is the one that is this one
    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one
    I am the one that is this one
    We are the one that is this one
    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one
    Dem can't do nothing 'bout this one

    This is the one that is this one
    It a the right one, it a the real one (repeat)

    drums: Wilburn Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    guitars: Ian Coleman, Earl "Chinna" Smith, David "Ziggy" Marley
    percussion: Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson, Glen Browne
    keyboards: Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin, Mallory Williams
    lead vocals: David "Ziggy" Marley

    Producer
    Melody Makers
    3:09
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Jahmekya

  • Jahmekya
    1991
  • The album has a much tougher sound than previous records, and its digitized beats are indebted to Jamaica's dancehalls. Stephen's growing interest in this scene is evident on "Raw Riddim," a pure dancehall number, stripped down to the beats.

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    #Track TitleTime
    1Raw Riddim
    Hop bop but don't call the cop
    My sound still in the musical top, relax

    Come on in, the gate is wide and open
    Don't be afraid, we're not as bad as they say
    Do you, do you, do what you got to do
    Do you, do you, do what you got to do
    Do you, do you, do what you got to do
    Do you, do you

    We're having fun down in the ghetto
    We're having fun down in the ghetto
    We're having fun down in the ghetto
    We're having fun down in the ghetto

    chorus:

    When will the innocent stop being
    Punished for their innocence
    When will the innocent stop being
    Punished for their innocence
    When will the innocent stop being
    Punished for their innocence
    When will the innocent stop being
    Punished for their innocence

    Come on in, the gate is wide and open
    Don't be afraid, we're not as bad as they say
    Do you, do you, do what you got to do
    Do you, do you, do what you got to do
    Do you, do you, do what you got to do
    Do you, do you

    chorus:

    Now I'm at a corner, gonna check a sistren
    Left alone to suffer
    No I'm at the station, going to check a brethren
    Charge with instigating revolution

    See it ya, now me sey we willy winkle
    Where have you been
    So skinning up your teeth, you know wi not smiling
    Because you upstairs downstairs committing sin
    Political wise and you don't deserve a thing
    Every sufferer suffer sometimes or another

    Though you see wiinna knit ganz and sweater
    Wi belly could a full, but wi still a suffer
    House and land down suh it without furniture
    Though wi export wi coffee send wi farm worker
    Ex-amount a wi people still a suffer
    The ghetto gal from down suh,
    Man mi sey she sweet like a wah
    Man wi hail up Pam and big up Barbara
    Special request to Panserella Big up the youth
    Call Burro Chaga, soul man him dey yah
    In nough gold chain, silver

    When will the innocent stop being
    Punished for their innocence
    When will the innocent stop being
    Punished for their innocence

    You see as to how wi get this riddim yah
    Fe dance wid, you dance wid ityou nuh
    Sam way you nuh

    vocals: Ziggy
    vocals: Stephen
    drum programming: Squidly
    bass: Chris
    background vocals: Vision, Squidly, Chris

    Producer
    Ghetto Youths United
    3:59
    2Kozmic
    I know there are many forces
    That would not like to see
    Our dreams become a reality
    There's a war going on, a war you cannot see
    Right versus wrong, it's a war that is so real
    I wake up in the morning and the sun I didn't see
    But I feel the vibes, forces around me

    Can you feel it, it's kozmik
    I can feel it, hey can you feel it
    It's kozmik man, kozmik, kozmik
    Kozmik live in me

    Many people having problems, from where it came
    Innocent fallen victim, although they can't explain
    Intellect takes advantage of the simple man
    Intellect takes advantage of the simple man
    Intellect takes advantage of the simple man
    Many people having problems, from where it came
    Innocent fallen victims to thought they can't explain
    Intellect takes advantage of the simple man
    Intellect takes advantage of the, hey
    Can you feel it, what a
    Oh I can feel it now
    Hey, can you dance, can you dance, can you dance
    Can you dance, dance, dance, it live in me yea

    Eagle the star a pyramid, all seeing on a dollar bill
    What does it mean, where did it come from
    Why is it there, hey, I repeat myself
    Eagle the star a pyramid
    What is the all-seeing eye doing on a dollar bill, nnh
    What's going on, what's going on, what's going on
    What's going on, well I tell you what, I can feel it

    Can you feel it, it's a kozmik thing
    I can feel it, hey yea, can you feel it
    Lawd, lawd, lawd, lawd, lawd, lawd live in me

    I know they're many forces
    That would not like to see our dreams become reality
    There's a war going on, a war you cannot see
    Right versus wrong, it's a war, it is so real
    I wake up in the morning, the sun I didn't see
    But I feel the vibes, forces around me

    Can you feel it, hey, hey, hey
    I can feel it, oh,
    oh, can you feel it?
    It's kozmik, it's kozmik, it's kozmik
    Live in me, live in me

    The people having problems from where it came
    Innocent fallen victims to a thought they can't explain
    Intellect takes advantage of the simple man
    Intellect takes advantage of the simple man
    Christian read you bible, Muslim read your koran
    Pray to Jah and no other man, yea whoe whoe yea

    What I say can you, can you, can you feel it
    Can you feel it, it's kozmik, well, I can feel it
    Cold bumps on my skin, nnh, I can feel it
    Feel it, live in me

    It live in me, it live in me
    It live in me yeah, hey it live in me, how how
    It live in me yeah it live in me, how how
    It live in me yeah it live in me, how how

    It's kozmik, it's kozmik, it's kozmik live in me
    Kozmik, kozmik, kozmik, it live in me
    It's kozmik, it's kozmik, it's kozmik, it live in me
    It's kozmik, it's kozmik, it's kozmik what can it be

    It's kozmik, it's kozmik feeling, it's kozmik feeling
    Whooe, it live in me, it live in me

    lead vocals: Ziggy Marley
    drums: Wilburn "Squidly" Cole
    bass: Glen Brownie
    percussion: Bashiri Johnson
    percussion: Rick "Soldier" Will
    guitar: Constantine "Vision" Walker
    guitar: Earl "Chinna" Smith
    Hammond B-3, Horns: Tyrone Downie
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast, Erica Newell

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Gleen Rosenstein
    6:17
    3Rainbow Country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country

    Hey lovely people you sure look good to me
    I won't abuse you, what to be got to be
    A feel like dancing, feel like jumping
    Feel like dancing, a feel like jumping

    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Na nan-na na nan-na na
    Na nan-na na nan-na na

    Through the road is rocky it sure feels good to me
    Yes if I'm lucky together we'll always be

    The zion is a...., the zion is arising
    The zion is arising, the zion is arising
    The zion is arising, the zion is arising
    The zion is arising, the zion is arising
    The zion is arising

    Hey Mr. Music you sure feel good to me
    I can't refuse it, what to be have to be
    Hey Mr. Music, you sure feel good to me
    Hey I'll never refuse it, love, love it badly

    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Na nan-na na nan-na na
    Na nan-na na nan-na na

    We got our home, where? The promised land
    Feel like home, can you overstand
    We got our home, the promise land
    Feel like home, you ----

    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country

    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country

    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country
    Rainbow country, rainbow country

    lead vocals: Ziggy Marley
    lead vocals: Stephen Marley
    drums: Wilburn "Squidly" Cole
    bass: Christopher Meredith
    percussion: Bashiri Johnson
    guitar: Constantine "Vision" Walker
    guitar: Earl "Chinna" Smith
    keyboards: Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul
    piano, keyboards: Tyrone Downie
    background vocals: Cedella Marley, Rita Marley

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Gleen Rosenstein
    3:23
    4Drastic
    To the will of the people, the will of the people
    All nation have to bow, drastic solution
    And to the will of the people, all nation bow
    Drastic resolution

    Drastic, do you want it
    Do you want it to be drastic, would you like it
    Drastic, do you want it
    Oh do you want it to be drastic, would you like it

    Hey, I'm a say, we don't want to fight
    But if you push us we have to
    Hey, we don't give up our right, will not stand still
    Mmmh, all this oppression make things rough
    So I'm a see I've become a slave to my purpose

    Drastic, do you want it
    Do you want it to be drastic, would you like it
    Man mi sey fe drastic, do you want it
    Oppressor all over the world, drastic,
    Man would you like it

    Oh now, you push us down we still get up
    You turn your back on us, mmmh, we, we are still here
    Try, economic slavery, and this is what you do
    You put us in a social jail for isolation
    Upper class, middle class, lower class
    Third World people look look look look
    Look you know, look, you know

    Know the power that we have
    Know the power catch it like a cat in a bag
    Through the power that we have
    Know the power catch it like a cat in a bag

    All over the world poor people suffer
    Mi sey a dog eats more supper in society
    You make the world so hard
    How is a womanto live, how is a man to think
    Hey, I'm just talking to you
    Make up your mind, make up your mind
    Make up your mind
    Make up your mind, make up your mind
    Make up your mind
    Make up your mind, make up your mind
    Make up your mind

    Drastic, do you want it, oppressor over the world
    Drastic, man would yo like it, me sey fi hear my world
    Drastic, do y ou want it, drastic solution
    Drastic, would you like it, drastic revolution

    Drastic, do you want it
    Do you want it to be drastic, would you like it
    All nation have fe bow, oh to the will of the people
    All nation have fe bow, to the will of the people

    Now, now drastic, drastic, drastic solution
    Drastic drastic, a drastic drastic revolution
    Drastic a drastic a drastic drastic solution
    Mmmh a drastic a drastic a drastic a drastic revolution

    I'm willing and able, I'm willing and able
    I'm willing and able, I'm willing and able
    I'm willing and able, I'm willing and able

    Ziggy Marley: lead vocals, guitar, percussion, keyboard
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole: drums
    Christopher Meredith: bass
    Bashiri Johnson: percussion
    Constantine "Vision" Walker: guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: piano, organ, synth
    Tyrone Downie: bass crunch, plastic tube
    Glenn Rosenstein: guitar
    backing vocals: Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley Prendergast, Erica Newell, Stephen
    Marley
    sample from "War" by Bob Marley and the Wailers

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    5:16
    5Good Time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time

    Get those problems out your head, put
    Your mama to bed
    But don't stray too far from reality or
    You will live
    In a dream world
    Dreaming of things that there ain't no possiblity, who
    Wee, believe me
    Let's have a nice grooving time, but don't go too far
    >From the truth in your mind
    Cause you'll drink and drive, and then
    You'll fly too
    High and so you'll pay the price for justa
    Feeling nice

    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time

    So many things to foresee, we were not
    Born to live this way
    We were born having fun in the jungle of grace
    With plenty of food to eat, and plenty drink to drink
    So you know what I mean when I say
    Liberate yourself from the state that you're in
    It stink, it stink, it stink
    Mi sey to dance if y ou have to but don't
    Take no chance
    To be deceived, yea

    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time

    The bass is heavy the drummer is steady
    Ooh, rhythm runs and it got you on the
    Floor cry out
    For more
    That's teh only way you gonna know for
    Sure you need
    Some more

    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time

    Your mind is your mind, I mean your body
    And your soul
    Don't let material things they must not
    Keep you down
    A get on up, a get on up, I mean you do
    What I ya say
    I say do what you do, but don't get
    Carried away
    Let's have a good time, yes educate
    Oneself
    Let's have a good time, and liberate
    Oneself
    Don't be no fool today don't be so cruel
    Today
    Let's work together yes, to build a better
    Place

    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time

    The bass is heavy the drummer is steady
    Woe wee yes it run and got you on teh floor, cry out
    For more
    That's the only way you gonna know for
    Sure, we need
    Some more

    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Though the world is cruel and blind
    Let's have a good time
    Melody Makers, more Melody Makers
    Let's have a good time
    Melody Makers, more Melody Makers
    Melody Makers
    More Melody Makers, Let's have a good time
    Melody Makers, More Meldoy Makers
    Melody Makers
    Let's have a good time, let's have a good time
    Let's have a good time

    Ziggy Marley: lead vocals
    Cedella Marley: lead vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: lead vocals
    Stephen Marley: lead vocals
    Erica Newell: vocals
    Clevie Brownie: drum programming
    Glen Brownie: bass
    Tyrone Downie: Clavinet, sample programming
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Hammond B-3, horns
    Glenn Rosenstein: guitar, percussion

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    5:30
    5What Conquers Defeat
    you don't know what you're winning
    unless you know the score
    you can't tell you're losing
    unless you feel the agony
    then you know what conquers defeat

    hey you don't know you're winning
    brother, unles you know the score
    you can't tell you're losing
    unless you feel the agony
    then you know what conquers defeat

    say, can't win them all, won't lose them all
    it's like you win some, and then you lose some
    lose some and then you win some
    but you know what conquers defeat
    what conquers defeat yeah, conquers defeat

    say the competition higher, nah guh gi yu nuh blie
    we thinking about the youths dem
    youths from longer time
    we thinking about the youths dem
    youth longer time
    oh, said the competition high, naah guh
    pass unuh by

    can't win them all, won't lose them all
    is likeyou win some, then you lose some
    lose some brother, win some
    then you know, hey it's trouble on the road

    said it conquers defeat, it conquers defeat
    I said it conquers defeat, it conquers defeat
    brother it conquers defeat, yes sister it
    conquers defeat
    hey it conquers defeat
    yes, then you know it conquers defeat
    then you know, it conquers defeat

    stephen marley: lead vocals
    ziggy marley: guitars
    wilburn "squidly" cole: drums
    christopher meredith: bass
    constantine "vision" walker: guitar
    earl "chinna" smith: guitar
    franklyn "bubbler" waul: piano, pick guitar, keyboards
    glenn rosenstein: percussion
    tyrone downie: synth horn, organ bubble
    cedella marley, sharon marley prendergast, erica newell: backing vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    2:42
    7First Night
    inna de ghetto first night
    things are really high
    reggae all night for the poor

    inna de ghetto first night
    things are really high, high
    reggae all night for the poor

    inna de ghetto first night
    things are really high
    a reggae all night, want some more

    hey, a see the girls are dancing
    yes de youths dem a bawl it out
    though we've got problems
    we still a rock it to the ground

    inna de ghetto first night
    things are really high
    a reggae all night for the poor, we want more

    inna de ghetto first night
    things are really high
    reggae all night for the poor

    down down inna de ghetto first night
    things are really high
    reggae just right, want some more, yes we do

    and in the back room
    brethren a reason harder now
    yes we say well soon
    we haffi tear some borders down

    inna the ghetto first night
    things are really high
    reggae all night for the poor

    inna the ghetto first night
    things are really high, high, high, high, high

    down inna ghetto first night
    things are really high
    hey, a reggae all night for the poor

    some say we got nothing
    but let's show them something now
    and all those who claim to have something
    hey, they ain't nowhere to be found

    down inna de ghetto first night
    things are really high
    we're keeping up the first for the poor
    how how

    inna de ghetto first night
    things are really high, high
    a reggae all night for the poor

    a reggae justy right, want some more
    a reggae all night for the poor
    reggae just right, want some more

    reggae all night for the poor
    reggae just right, want some more
    reggae all night for the poor
    reggae just right

    reggae all night for the poor
    reggae just right, want some more
    reggae all night for the poor
    reggae just right, want some more
    for the poor
    want some more

    reggae all night for the poor
    hey, we want some more
    inna de ghetto
    inna de ghetto
    inna de ghetto

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    3:32
    8Wrong Right Wrong
    CHORUS:
    Some people got the wrong right
    Some people got the right wrong
    Some people got the wrong right
    Some people got the right wrong

    wrong right
    Some people got the right wrong
    Some people got the wrong right
    Some people got the right wrong


    And they're teaching their doctrine
    To the children of today
    Every mickle make a muckle
    If you know what I say
    Don't be fooled by the fool
    The trick that they play

    CHORUS

    And they know what is in their mind
    They're trying to prove instead of to find
    Truth don't hide in no valley
    Truth don't hide in no brook
    Truth a hide in your heart

    CHORUS

    Woe onto them who cause iniquity
    With chords of vanity, they call evil god
    Put darkness for light; Bitter for sweet
    Woe unto dem who are wise
    In their own eyes, what a life

    Behind the scene eyes nuh see
    What governments hide
    C.I.A should D.O.A., K.G.B. should R.I.P.
    That's what on my mind
    The bible was changed to suit King James
    Many empty lies, hear say, hear say, hear say
    John public blind, public want to know the truth today

    And the world became this way
    Beacuse the trick in the trade
    They refuse to see it, save the people pray
    Doctrine where is your happiness
    We're in a slummy economic mess
    Whole world is crying, whole world is dying

    CHORUS

    CHORUS

    Some a dem, Some a dem, Some a dem
    Some a dem, Some a dem, Some a dem
    Some a dem

    Some people don't know
    Some people don't know
    Some people don't know
    Some people don't know

    Ziggy Marley : Lead Vocals
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole : Drums
    Christopher Meredith : Bass
    Earl "China" Smith : Guitar
    Tyrone Downie : Hammond B-3 Piano Synth Horns
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul : Percussion
    Glen Rosenstein : Percussion
    Cedella Marley : Background vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast : Background vocals
    Erica Newell : Background vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    4:12
    9Herbs An' Spices
    Everywhere we go there will be a change
    Everywhere we go there will be a change
    Everywhere we go there will be a
    change
    Everywhere we go yo

    Herbs an' spices, spices an' herbs
    Don't tell me I can't do this and that
    I know the world can be much wickeder
    You keep asking me, I keep on answering you saying

    The iderine knows, hey the sistren knows
    Why do we think like this
    Cause revolution just a flow
    Chuc revolution just a flow, and everyone know

    Herbs an' spices, brother man, spices an' herbs
    Hey a say the whole world know
    Woe, revolution hot a flow
    A revolution hot a flow

    Long time how a dem a hold wi down
    Come come come come back my people
    Hey we haffi stand a ground

    Everywhere we go there will be a change
    That is why I know there will be a change
    And everywhere we go there will be a change
    Yes, everywhere we go there will be a change

    Some might not agree with this philosophy
    Some people might not understand
    Tired of being the foot stool of another man
    Time to take a stand

    Herbs an' spices, spices an' herbs
    Hey a sey the whole world realized I
    Revolution just a flow
    Revolution just a flow
    A revolution hot a flow
    A revolution just a flow

    Rules is all I hear about
    Everywhere I go they telling me
    I was born to break them down
    That's what I know

    They tell me I must not do this and that
    Hey, I know the world can be much wickeder
    Them ask me, me tell them, me tell them
    Them ask me, what I say, is what I say

    A revolution hot a flow
    Revolution just a flow
    Revolution hot a flow
    A revolution just flow

    Everywhere we go there will be a change
    Everywhere we go there will be a change
    I mean everywhere we go there will be a change
    Everywhere we go there will be a change

    And everywhere we go there will be a change
    Cause everywhere we go
    Everywhere we go I see spices an' herbs

    Herbs an' spices, spices an' herbs
    Mmmh herb, herb, spices an' herbs
    I am on my feel dancing to the beat, yea

    Revolution, revolution just a flow
    Revolution, revolution hot a flow
    Revolution just a flow
    A revolution hot a flow

    Herbs an' herb an', herb an' spices an' herbs
    Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me
    Spices an' herb, whoe, revolution
    Yes man a revolution
    Yes mi say this a revolution

    Ziggy Marley : Lead Vocals Keyboards Guitar
    Clevie Brownie : Drum Programming
    Christopher Meredith : Bass
    Bashiri Johnson : Percussion
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul : Keyboards
    Tyrone Downie : Piano Mallets Horns Samples
    Giles Reaves : Sample Programming
    Cedella Marley : Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast : Background Vocals
    Erica Newell : Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    4:05
    10Problem With My Woman
    Can't take heartache
    Can't take

    CHORUS:
    Another problem with a woman again
    Another problem with a woman again
    Another problem with a woman again
    Another problem with a woman again

    Sometimes it's hard to express yourself
    To get, get things offa your chest, my friend
    Tell you one more time

    CHORUS

    Sometimes it's hard to express
    You know what I mean Robbie
    To get, get things off my chest
    Gonne give you one more chance

    CHORUS

    You know what I mean Robbie
    Say, you know what I mean Robbie
    I know you got them too
    A woman again

    Stephen Marley : Lead Vocals Guitar Percussion
    Ziggy Marley : Lead Guitar
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole : Drums
    Christopher Meredith : Bass
    Earl "China" Smith: Acoustic Guitar
    Glenn Rosenstien : Percussion

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    3:49
    11Jah is True and Perfect
    So people ain't it time to feel
    Rather than gazing past reality
    So you run from the rock
    And you end up in the wilderness
    And the big bad wolf is getting vex

    You remember this

    CHORUS:

    Jah is true and perferct more holy than man
    Jah is true and perferct and those who are with him

    He that plant the seed is the son of man
    The field is the Earth, the food seeds are the children
    Joyful is men when the truth is known
    But sadness come with the lies they tell

    Well I dig this

    CHORUS

    Hey you remember this

    CHORUS

    So people ain't it time to feel
    Rather than gazing past reality
    So you run from the rock
    And you end up in the wilderness
    And the big bad wolf have no regrets

    But remember this, Jah is true and perferct more holy than man
    Yeah Jah is true and perferct and those who are with him
    Stay there
    Jah is true and perferct more holy than man
    Jah is true and perferct and those who are with him
    Stay there

    Jah is true and perferct more holy than man
    Jah is true and perferct and those who are with him
    Jah is true and perferct more holy than man

    Ziggy Marley : Lead Vocals
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole : Drums
    Christopher Meredith : Bass
    Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson : Percussion
    Constantine "Vision" Walker : Guitar
    Earl "China" Smith: Guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul : Piano
    Tyrone Downie : Synth Strings
    Cedella Marley : Background Vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast : Background Vocals
    Erica Newell : Background Vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    3:31
    12Small People
    Yea children

    Small people one day will get big
    And those who they call minority
    Are most of the people that you see
    Don't you ever abuse humble man

    Don't be afraid to wake up
    Don't be afraid to wake up
    Don't be afraid of another day
    Iya get ready, oh yeah!

    Walking down the street
    Can't afford to rest my feet
    I just can't agree, with my environment
    I would like to see, what can be done
    About it

    Hey I'm not afraid to wake up
    I'm not afraid to wak up
    No I'm not araid of another day
    I am ready oh yeah

    Mmmh mmh mmh, woe woe woo woe
    Mmmh mmmh mmh, woe woe woo woe

    Living in this time
    Got so much thigs on my mind
    Living in this world
    I can't afford to lose control
    Speak up for your right
    Expect it going be a fight
    Better a free man than a slave
    Better a real man any day

    What did you say
    Mi never hear what you say, little while a
    Go
    People get ready, oh hey

    A suh wi like, a suh wi like it

    Small people one day will get big
    Those they call minority
    Most of the people that you see
    Don't you ever abuse, not one humble man

    Small people must get big
    Small people they must get big
    Small people one day must get big
    Small people oh make the world go round

    Come make the world go round
    Oh make the world go round
    Lord, make the world go round, round

    Struggle all small people put your best
    shot
    Give it your best shot, lick it while it hot

    I'm gonna hit you with music, hit you with music
    I'm gonna hit you with music, hit you with music
    I'm gonna hit you with music, hit you with music
    I'm gonna hit you with music, hit you with music
    I'm gonna hit you with music
    Welcome all small people


    Ziggy: Lead vocals, Guitar, Synth horns
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole: Drums
    Christopher Meredith: Bass
    Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson: Percussion
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Hammond B-3, Stereo guitars
    Tyrone Downie: Piano
    Glenn Rosenstein: Synth horns
    Cedella Marley: Background vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background vocals
    Erica Newell: Background vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    3:16
    13So Good So Right
    This one is special for all the ladies
    You never know I was that type of man

    So good so right so good so, so good so
    right so good so
    So good so right so good so, so good so
    right so good so

    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night

    But you keep on watching the time,
    Wondering what's on my mind
    So you say you can't stay too long, cause
    You know what I'm all a...
    What I'm all about, what I'm all about
    I don't have to sing and shout, what I'm
    All about
    You know what I'm all about

    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night

    Yes it's the truth it's the fact, I'm coming
    To you straight from
    The back in a mastering room style
    Don't be shy, don't you lie, look into my
    Eye
    I'll tell you why, I'll teach you about
    Feeling high

    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night

    Never before have you seen this, so I say
    This feeling sink within my head, oh yea,
    Oh yea
    Never before have you believe it, so I mean
    What I say
    You just got to be yourself

    Feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    Yea, feel so good about something so
    Right could it last another night
    A feel so good about something so right
    A feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    So good so right so good so, so good so
    Right so good so
    So good so right so good s, so good so
    Right so good so

    Yes it is the strife of my life, to explain
    What's in my brain
    If you believe what I say, baby, baby
    A check in, check in, check check, check in
    Check in
    Check in, check in, check in, a check in,
    Check in, check into my hotel

    A feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    A feel so good about something so right
    Could it last another night
    So good, so right, so good, so right, so
    Good, so right
    So right, I feel so good could it last
    Another night

    A feel so right could it last another
    Night
    A feel so good something so right, so
    Good
    Lord, I said I feel so right

    A feel so good, oh could it last another
    Night

    A feel so right, oh could it last another
    Night
    A feel so good oh could it last another
    Night
    A feel so right oh could it last another
    Night
    So good, o right, so good, so right, so
    Good, so good, so right

    Ziggy: Lead vocals, Guitar, Synth horns
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole: Drums
    Christopher Meredith: Bass
    Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson: Percussion
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Bell Rhodes, Synth Percussion
    Tyrone Downie: Log drum, Whimpy M-1, Synth Percussion
    Cedella Marley: Background vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background vocals
    Erica Newell: Background vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    4:36
    14Namibia
    People get freedom in Namibia
    People get free and independent
    People get freedom in Namibia
    People get free and independent

    I pay my tribute to, people get freedom in
    Namibia
    People get free and independent, yea
    People get freedom in Namibia
    People get free and independent

    So strive for the land
    Don't depend on the over sea man
    He is like a mosquito
    A mean, one step, hey, we got more step to
    Go

    I pay my tribute to, people get freedom in
    Namibia
    People get free and independent, one time
    People get freedom in Namibia
    People get free and independent

    So many years ago
    I say, white racist regime would not
    Know
    Run, dem hafi gun run, run with their
    Mentality
    Run dem down

    A tribute to, people get freedom in
    Namibia, yea, yea
    People get free and independent, really a
    Joy and relief
    People get freedom in Namibia, free to
    Make up your mind
    People get free and independent, every
    Time

    We don't stop you go, we don't stop you
    Go
    Mi sey, we don't stop you go, we don't
    Stop you go
    Mi sey, we don't stop you go, we don't
    Stop you go
    Mi sey, we don't stop you go, we don't
    Stop you go

    Rastaman rise, rise and take your stance
    Again
    All revolutionaries rise
    Hey come come come come come come mek
    We help and freedom

    I tell you now, people get freedom in
    Namibia
    People get free and independent
    Hey, people get freedom in Namibia
    People get free and independent, yes

    People get freedom in Namibia, my life is
    Full of joy
    People get free and independent, tell
    Africans I know their joy
    People get freedom in Namibia, we got all
    Right to live
    People get free and independent, we've
    Got a right to give

    People get freedom in Namibia
    People get free and independent
    People get freedom in Namibia
    People get free and independent



    Ziggy: Lead vocals, Guitar, Sax
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole: Drums
    Christopher Meredith: Bass
    Constantine "Vision" Walker: Guitar, repeater
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards
    Tyrone Downie: Rhodes, Hammond B-3
    Harry T. Powell: Repeater
    Robert Marley: Repeater
    Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson: Fundi
    Jonny "Dizzy" Moore: Bass drum
    Cedella Marley: Background vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background vocals
    Erica Newell: Background vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    4:06
    15New Time & Age
    People put yourself together now, yu nuh
    Mek life a lickle betta, prosper
    Come in, new time and age this
    Not time for loafing, watch it

    People did you hear, new time and age
    New time and day
    And the children too, new time and age
    New time and day

    So put away all your mistakes of
    Yesterday
    Come gain, try and make new friend
    We're going forward 'til you top you top
    You never stop
    Going forward, mi sey yu feel the beat
    You feel it drop

    Ne time and age
    Liberate my people now, new time and day
    New time and age
    New time and day

    The sixties was rough, the seventies was
    Tough
    The eighties were corrupt, the nineties
    Must be the time of change
    Get your mind together, don't watch the
    Weather
    It's not the end, tell you people got to do
    A lot of other things yea

    New time and age
    Live it up, live it up, live it up, new time
    And day
    New time and age
    The struggle go on, new time and day

    Struggle for you, struggle for you,
    Struggle for you, independence
    Struggle for you, struggle for you,
    Struggle for you freedom
    Struggle for you, struggle for you,
    Struggle for you spread along now

    Well it's a new time and age
    Fulfill prophecy, new time and day
    New time and age
    A mean no wait no more, new time and
    Day

    Today everything is so copacetic
    Tomorrow you sad and blue
    Tell me what does it profit people
    To speak of and not do

    New time and age
    Hey, tell it to the people, new time and
    Day
    And the children too, new time and age
    Everyone got something to do, new time
    And day

    New time and age
    Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock
    Wait is a heavy load, new time, new time
    New time, new time and age

    New time, new time, new time
    And day

    Ziggy: Lead vocals, Guitar, Percussion
    Clieve Brownie: Drum programming
    Christopher Meredith: Bass
    Bashiri Johnson: Percussion
    Tyrone Downie: Pan mallets, Clavinet, Sax,
    Grunge guitar
    Glenn Rosenstein: Wah guitar, Shaku zulu
    Cedella Marley: Background vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background vocals
    Erica Newell: Background vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    5:11
    16Generation
    Many generation have passed away
    Fighting for the same cause, we fight for
    Today
    Now some people say when will it happen
    And that's what they say, now let us tell
    Them something

    My generation will make the change, wi
    Hafe bring it come
    This generation will make the change

    How could I dream that this will go on
    For more many years, until a kid become a
    Man
    Fighting for freedom, oh it's a deadly
    Thing
    And trying to get away from reality is
    Dangerous

    My generation will make the change, sing
    Along
    This generation will make the change

    Some man lose faith, too long ina the
    struggle
    Oh no we can't lose faith, we born ina the
    struggle
    Like they say we were born in sin, well
    Young blood ina the struggle

    NOw is the time, no moe talk and play
    Now wake up lazy mind sleep for you
    Today
    Now youth responsible, when all else
    have failed
    And there will be no more blaming
    Someone else

    My generation will make the change, I'm
    So glad to see
    This generation will make the change,
    Hard as it may be
    My generation will make the change, this
    Ain't no talk no cheap
    This generation will make the change
    This ain't no weep no weep

    My generation will make the change
    This generation will make the change
    My generation will make the change
    This generation will make the change

    My generation will make the change
    This generation will make the change


    Ziggy: Lead vocals, Guitar, Percussion
    Stephen: Vocals, Percussion
    Wilburn "Squidly" Cole: Drums
    Christopher Meredith: Bass
    Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson: Percussion
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards
    Tyrone Downie: Piano, Magic organ, Mallets,
    Steel drums, Keyboards
    Cedella Marley: Background vocals
    Sharon Marley Prendergast: Background vocals
    Erica Newell: Background vocals

    Producer
    Melody Makers and Glenn Rosenstein
    4:16
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Conscious Party

  • Conscious Party
    1989
  • The Melody Makers' breakout album, and why is clear from the opening notes of the title track which kicks off the set. The Melody Makers add the magic; veterans now after two previous albums, they've honed their sound to a fine edge.

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    1Conscious Party
    Everyone is happy tonight
    But not because of the world
    And I know there'll be no fight
    In such a Conscious Party

    Everyone is happy tonight
    But not because of the world
    And I know there'll be no fight
    In such a Conscious Party

    No booze to lick our head
    Now we can't lose in life way
    No booze to lick our head
    Got to stay a light in darkness
    And everyone is happy tonight
    But not because of the world
    But not because of the world
    And I know there'll be no fight
    In such a Conscious Party

    Spirit of Jah passes through
    I can feel him, so can you! Yeah
    Makes one want to get up and dance
    I said we're jammin' on this love and chant
    Everyone is happy tonight
    But not because of the world
    But it's not because of the world
    And I know there'll be no fight
    In such a Conscious Party

    Everyone, and Jah-a-everyone

    I get smiles of Happiness
    Jahlification a dances
    Brothers loving their sisters...
    Sisters loving their brothers

    Everyone is happy tonight
    But not because of the world
    And I know there'll be no fight
    In such a Conscious Party

    Everyone is happy tonight
    But not because of your world
    And how could there be any fight
    In such a Conscious Party
    Everyone is happy tonight
    But not because of the world
    And how could there be any fight
    In such a Conscious Party?

    No booze to lick our head
    Now we can't lose in life way
    No booze to lick our head
    Got to stay a light in darkness
    And everyone is happy tonight
    But not because of the world
    It's not because of the world
    And I know there'll be no fight
    In such a Conscious Party


    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums with Timbali
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Congas
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards, strings/brass
    orchestra hits, effects
    Gary Pozner: Keyboard, Rhythm piano
    4:54
    2Lee and Molly
    Yay!
    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty
    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty

    Mama don't want that
    Though she know they might be free
    Daddy got drunk one day
    He beat the hell out of poor old Lee

    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty
    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty

    Why should they hide to share strong moments? (Yes)
    These days men have no bound'ries
    So whether you care or whether you won't - tell you what
    They have something a lot don't
    They're not just good friends

    Lee and Molly
    A white guy in love with black beauty
    Lee and Molly
    A hite guy in love with black beauty
    But life is not like that

    What are dreams if they can't be
    Love can't hurt you
    There's more to know than you can see

    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty
    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty

    The vibes so strong they had to go along (all the way)
    She gave the sign so he crossed the line
    Now they know they can't bargain with tribulation
    But there's stil things in life you just can't resist now
    Can't resist now: this is it! Yeah

    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty
    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty, black beauty

    Yeah! All you're teaching who
    Is who they should scorn
    Remember this
    Passion insist they must be born
    Let them grow, grow & grow
    Yes just remember this
    Let the whole wide world know
    They're not just, not just good friends naanhg!

    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty
    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty
    All you're teaching is who they should scorn

    Though she knows they must be free
    Daddy got drunk one day
    He beat the hell out of poor old Lee

    Lee and Molly, Lee and Molly
    In love, in love, in love
    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty

    Why should they hid to share strong moments
    Yes, these days love has no boundaries
    So whether you care or whether you won't
    They've got something a lot don't
    They're not just good friends, no-ooh!

    Lee and Molly
    Yes it is a white guy in love with a black beauty

    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty
    Lee and Molly
    White guy

    Vibe so strong they went along
    Yes! She gave the sign so he crossed the line
    Now they know you can't bargain with tribulation
    There are still things in life we can't resist
    Yes this is it n'this is it n'this is it! Tah!

    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty
    Lee and Molly
    White guy in love with black beauty

    Lee and Molly
    Lee and Molly, Lee, Lee
    Lee and Molly
    Lee and Molly, Lee and Molly in love y'all

    Let love be free, let love be free


    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums with Timbali
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Tambourine and jawbone (vibra-slap)
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Tenor, Wah-wah and distortion guitar
    Keith Richards: Lead guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards, strings/brass
    Melaku Retta: Keyboard (strings)
    Dereje Mekonnen: Keyboard (grand piano)
    Lenny Pickett: Contrabass sarrusophone and Baritone sax
    4:27
    3Tomorrow People
    Tomorrow people, where is your past?
    Tomorrow people, how long will you last?
    Tomorrow people, where is your past?
    Tomorrow people, how long will you last?

    Today you say you deyah
    Tomorrow you say you're gone
    But you're gone so long
    If there is no love in your heart - so sorry
    Then there is no hope for you - true, true

    Tomorrow people, where is your past?
    Tomorrow people, how long will you last?
    Tomorrow people, where is your past?
    Tomorrow people, how long will you last?

    So you're in the air
    But you still don't have a thing to spare
    You're flying high
    While we're on the low o-o-oh

    Tomorrow people, where is your past?
    Tomorrow people, how long will you last? Tell me now
    Tomorrow people, where is your past? No where
    Tomorrow people, how long will you last? Ten years!

    Stop tellin' me the same story
    Today you say you deyah
    Tomorrow you say you're gone and you're not coming back
    If there is no love in your heart oh now
    There will never be hope for you

    Tomorrow people, where is your past?
    Tomorrow people, how long will you last? Ten years!
    Tomorrow people, where is your past?
    Tomorrow people, tomorrow people, come on
    Tomorrow people, tomorrow people, come on
    Tomorrow people, tomorrow people, no soon come
    Tomorrow people, tomorrow people, soon come
    Tomorrow people, tomorrow people, today is here

    If you don't know your past, you don't know your future
    Everyone
    Don't know your past, don't know your future everyman
    Don't know your past, don't know your future, come on
    Don't know your past, don't know your future

    How many nations
    How many people did that one catch
    How many nations did that one catch
    Don't know past, don't know your future
    Don't know past, don't know your future


    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums with Timbali
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Woodblocks, cabasa
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Acoustic and electric guitars
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboard
    Jerry Harrison: Hammond B-3 organ
    3:38
    4New Love
    This is new love
    New love
    Is like the sun rising over the mountaintop
    New love
    Is like the morning dew

    Let me tell you this
    My love is always new girl
    So I am giving it to you
    But while you play around
    My love goes to someone new
    And while you play the clown
    My love goes to someone new

    New love
    Is the like the sun rising over the mountaintop
    New love
    Is like the morning dew

    So, dig this
    You satisfy spirit
    Girl, you satisfy my flesh
    Just give up your love
    And I'll give the rest
    My thirsty soul knows so well
    Thirsty soul know so well

    New love
    Is the like the sun rising love the mountaintop and if you burn me
    Then I'll burn you back
    New love
    Is like the morning dew, mornin' dew, mornin' dew, I'll miss you

    I'm a-I'm a so happy
    I found this new
    Spirit in joy
    Sister, I was once blue
    I feel so fresh this love is true
    I feel so good that it is you

    New love
    Is the like the sun rising over the mountaintop, so you'll rock me
    And I'll rock you back
    New love
    Is like the morning dew, mornin' dew, mornin' dew, I'll miss you

    I'm a-I'm a so happy
    I found the new
    Spirit in joy
    Sister, I was once blue
    I feel so fresh this love is true
    I feel so good that it is you

    New love
    Is the like the sun rising over the mountaintop, so you'll rock me
    And I'll rock you back
    New love
    Is like the morning dew, mornin' dew, mornin' dew

    New love, new love, new love, new love, new love, new love
    You got rid of, rid of my blues
    New love, new love, new love, new love, new love, new love
    Baby, it's you I choose
    New love, new love, new love, new love, new love, new love
    Rock me, and I'll rock you back


    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Cabasa and woodblocks
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards, brass and koto
    Melaku Retta: Keyboard (strings)
    Dereje Mekonnen: Keyboard (breathy Rhodes piano)
    Lenny Pickett: Bass sax, piccolo, tongued clarinet
    3:41
    5Tumblin' Down
    Here comes the eagle
    Here comes the bear
    And they're fighting to control
    The lion dominion

    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down

    Here comes synthetic food
    And their big time money
    And they want to control
    Our body and soul

    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down

    Here comes the maker
    To crush the oppressor
    Well I bet you didn't know
    It was mind over matter

    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down

    Here comes the eagle
    Here comes the bear
    And they're fighting to control
    The lion dominion

    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down (Jah, Jah know)
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down (Jah, Jah know)
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down
    But the load gonna come tumblin' down


    Ziggy: Guitar
    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Electric and acoustic guitars
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards (bass clarinet,
    piano, french horn)
    Melaku Retta: Keyboard (string/bass)
    Mark Roule: Tambourine
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Congas
    4:01
    6We a Guh Some Weh
    Some say woyo
    We have to ride on ride on
    We say ayzo, ayzo
    Yes we have to ride on, ride on
    We a guy some weh
    So they want to hold us up
    We a guh some weh
    So they want to mix it up

    Children, children
    Father's children
    Now let's get ready for the fuss
    We a guh some weh
    So they wanna hold us up
    We a guh some weh
    So they wanna mix it up

    All those coward eyes
    They keep peepin' day and night
    They want to know what we up to next
    All those coward eyes
    That keep peepin' day and night
    They want to know what we do next
    So I'll tell them all I know

    We a guh some weh
    So they wanna hold us up
    We a guh some weh
    So they wanna mix it up

    We'll cry for the right
    But tomorrow all must fight
    Now they know they ain't got nuthin'
    Ay! Yes, we'll cry for the right
    But tomorrow all must fight
    And now they know they ain't got nothin' A-a-a-oh

    We a guh some weh
    But they wanna hold us up
    We a guh some weh
    So they wanna mix it up

    Children, children
    Jah, Jah children
    Let's get ready, let's get ready, let's get ready
    Children, children
    M-m-my father's children
    Let's get ready for the fuss

    We a guh some weh
    So they wanna hold us up
    We a guh some weh
    So they wanna mess it up

    We a guh, we a guh, we a guh
    Mix it up! Yeah, they can't stop us
    We a guh, we a guh, we a guh
    Some weh (no?) They just can't- they just can't stop us

    Ca' we say woyo, woyo
    Yes, we have to ride on, ride on
    Yes, we say a me say could dem, could dem
    I know we got to ride on, ride on
    Ca we say woyo, woyo
    Man, we have to ride on, ride on
    Yes, we say a me say could dem, could dem
    Man, we we have to ride on, ride on Ay!


    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Bongos and woodblocks
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards (whistling flute)
    Dereje Mekonnen: Keyboard (plucked piano)
    3:51
    7A Who A Say
    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah
    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah
    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah
    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah

    They are crazy lazy
    And full of intentions
    Flakey, shakey
    What a misinterpretation

    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah
    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah
    A dem a say
    A dem a say

    A dem a say
    A dem a say
    A dem a say there ain't no Jah

    Hedonist, sadist
    Nazi intention
    Masochism a devilizm
    Is life's intervention

    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah
    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah

    How could you say
    How could you say there ain't no Jah
    How could you say
    How could you say
    How could you say there ain't no Jah

    The signs before us
    Are simple and clear
    Soon men will know
    Only Jah to fear
    They are crazy, lazy
    Always inventing
    Shakey, flakey

    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah
    A who a say
    A who a say
    A who a say there ain't no Jah
    A dem a say
    A dem a say
    A dem a say there ain't no Jah
    But I a say
    And high a say
    And I a say there is a Jah


    Stephen Marley: lead vocal
    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Percussion
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards
    (clarinet, grand pianos, electric organ)
    Melaku Retta: Keyboard (bass voices)
    3:33
    8Have You Eve Been to Hell
    The heat is on so arm your soul
    The heat is on so arm your soul
    The heat is on so arm your soul
    ...Guiltiness...
    ...Lord Knows!...Guilty ones!

    Have you ever been to hell?
    Have you ever been to hell?
    Have you ever been to hell and hell again? Guilty ones!
    Have you ever been to hell?
    Have you ever been to hell?
    Have you ever been to hell and hell again?

    Don't you know
    Is there vanity
    And inhumanity?
    Cries from the guilty sayin'
    Who's gonna save you soul?
    Why didn't you give to the poor
    Now you got to cry
    Oh guity! And tell me

    Have you ever been to hell?
    Have you ever been to hell, blasphemers!
    Have you ever been to hell and hell again (oh)?
    Have you ever been to hell murderers!
    Have you ever been to hell guilty ones!
    Have you ever been to hell and hell again

    So y'know you could tried some more
    Like you never tried before
    Got to get out of a ditch
    We've got to remember
    Earth conquers bone

    Yes man's got to make the switch
    So, have you ever been to hell?
    Have you ever been to hell guilty one!
    Have you ever been to hell again? Liars!
    Have you ever been to hell pushers?
    Now, have you ever been to hell?

    Souldds are bought and sold
    Cause for so much woes
    The strain never ends
    Sister, if you haven't been there
    Don't wish to go! (Never)
    It's not like a duppy show! (No no no)

    Have you ever been to hell? Guilty ones!
    Have you ever been to hell murderers!
    Have you ever been to hell again arm your souls
    Have you ever been to hell tell
    Have you ever been to hell not o well!
    Have you ever been to hell and hell and hell and hell

    I'm gonna arm my soul
    We got to arm our souls
    Heed the warning
    Satan!

    Have you ever been?
    have you ever been y'all
    Have you been
    Have you ever been now
    So have you been
    Ever ben to hell and hell, and hell

    Guilty ones, murderers, top notch
    Have you ever been
    Said I never been, never ever been


    Ziggy Marley: Guitar
    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Percussion
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitar
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar
    Chris Romanelli: Feedback guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards
    (grand piano, ghost and hell synths)
    Melaku Retta: Hammond B-3 organ
    5:22
    9We Propose
    Callin' callin' callin'
    Warnin' warnin' warnin'

    We propose to live up our life
    We propose to do waht is right
    We propose to free our people
    We propose to live in Africa

    This mess, yes we detest
    Controlled by another hand
    They're puppets, they're just some puppets
    their thing's just a puppet show

    So we propose all people be free
    We propose equality for you and me
    We propose politicans know this
    We propose united (so)

    You confess to your wickedness (I said)
    The people already know
    Protest is not enough
    For the blood that flows (that's why)

    We propose to be freedom fighters
    We propose because we are all nighters
    We propose to lick them down
    We propose to free Africa

    Yes, it's very serious, not delirious
    The things that we say
    Now let me hear the music sound
    For sure we're gonna stick around

    We propose...
    We propose all people must be free
    We propose let music be free
    We propose we're gonna do what is right (whoa)

    This is not a request
    We propose ghetto youth live right
    We propose stop fight
    We propose politicnas learn this right now
    We propose free Africa

    'Cause we're tired of talkin'...listen to the people
    Tired of balkin'...this is not a request
    Tired of gamin'...listen to the people
    Tired of playin'...listen to the people

    We propose politicans learn, learn, learn
    We propose warmongers learn, learn, learn
    We propose fascists learn, learn, learn
    Open your ears...listen to the people

    We propose...
    No one is perfect in this un-perfect world


    Ziggy: Guitar
    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums with Timbali
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Woodblocks, jawbone, background vocals
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitars
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards
    Dereje Mekonnen: Keyboard (marimba)
    Lenny Pickett: Bass clarinet
    Jerry Harrison: Keyboards (pianos)
    4:34
    10What's True
    There are many stories (2 many)
    Both old and new
    What is true? (too too true, what is true?)
    There are many stories (3 many)
    Both old and new
    What is true? (what's true, what's true, what's true)

    Christopher Columbus discovered whom? (uh-uh)
    If their leader is closer to God (who? who?)
    Who is for who?
    Are they doing the right thing
    For who? for who? for who?

    There are many stories
    Both old and new
    What is true?
    There are many stories
    Both old and new
    What is true?

    So men say they're doing their best
    To put the people on the line
    They say we're linin' in their time
    Not true not true not true

    There are many stories
    Both old and new
    What is true?
    There are many stories
    Both old and new
    What is true?

    Did you know the name of the slave ship
    That carried us through and through?
    Did you know they change things?
    But they can't change me or you


    There are many stories
    Both old and new
    What is true?
    There are many stories
    Both old and new
    What is true?


    Ziggy: Guitar
    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums with timbali
    Asrat Aemro Selassie: Percussion
    Zeleke Gessesse: Bass guitar
    Mulu Gessesse: Rhythm guitars
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar
    Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul: Keyboards
    Dereje Mekonnen: Keyboard (Hammond B3 organ, strings)
    Lenny Pickett: Bass sax, Tenor sax
    3:27
    11Dreams of Home
    We're having dreams of home
    And you know we're not alone
    Dreams of home
    And I know we're not alone

    Look how long we've been away
    How long are we going to stay?
    Look how long we've been away from home
    How long are we going to roam?

    Dreams of home
    And I know we're not alone
    Having dreams, having visions
    Having dreams, having visions
    Why can't we people see
    Why can't we people see
    This is not where we belong?
    And there is a holy land

    Dreams of home
    Having dreams, having visions
    This ain't no fantasy
    Prophecy
    Ain't nothin' strange
    Life must be rearranged

    Dreams of home
    And I know we're not alone

    And if you don't believe
    I wish you well, I wish you well
    And if you don't believe
    I wish you well, I wish you well


    Ziggy: Acoustic guitar
    Raphael W'Mariam: Drums
    Earl "Chinna" Smith: Lead guitar

    Background vocals: Baby Cele, Lindiwe I, Dlamini,
    Khumbuzile Dlamini, Notomb-Khona W. Dlamini,
    Lindiwe C. Hlengwa, Zandile Hlengwa, Leleti Khumalo,
    Siboniso Khumalo, Nonhlanhla C. Mbambo, Linda Mchunu,
    Nandi Ndlouv, Thandekile Nhlanhla, Kipizane Skeyiya and
    Thandi G. Zulu
    4:54
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One Bright Day

  • One Bright Day
    1989
  • Ziggy Marley's One Bright Day, his follow-up to his breakthrough Conscious Party, is a solid, satisfying album, possessing an air of optimism and self-empowerment without sounding preachy or arrogant.

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    1Black My Story (Not History)
    black my story, black my story
    not his-tory, black my story
    black my story, black my story
    not his-tory, black my story

    from education to civilization
    from astrology straight to biology

    black my story, black my story
    not his-tory, black my story
    african glory, African glory
    what we want to see, is African liberty

    From Marakeshi to Egypt,Rio-De-Oro
    from Cape Town to Addis-Ababa and Congo

    african glory, african glory
    what we want to see
    African liberty, give it to me

    SOLO

    Oh, black my story, black my story
    No not his-tory, black my story
    African glory, African glory
    what we got to see, must be Africa's liberty

    From Mozambique to Libya
    oh land of the Uganda
    from Senegal to Somalia
    oh the land of good Ghana

    African glory, African glory
    what we want to see is African liberty
    black my story, black my story
    black my story, not his-tory

    A black my story, I and story
    black my story, not his-tory
    black I story, black my story
    Not his-tory, an African glory, chuc'aw African glory

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth
    4:16
    2One Bright Day
    One bright day the people got together
    one bright day the people got together
    one bright day the people got together
    one bright day the people got together

    There will be celebrations around the nations
    Love without no care
    There will be singing, plenty swinging
    Live without that fear

    One bright day the people got together
    one bright day the people got together
    yes it was one bright day
    yes it is one bright day

    There is music, you choose it, love it, love it
    hear this music, don't lose it, love it,love it

    One bright day the people got together
    one bright day the people got together
    Hey, unnuh see the one bright day, South Africa free
    Believe me, one bright day, a drugs free country

    There was sunshine on the phone line
    Wondering what you were doing
    And then joy sent a note and this is what she wrote

    One bright day the people got together
    one bright day the people got together
    Hey, unnuh see the one bright day, South Africa free
    Believe me, one bright day, a drugs free country

    Make it to the one bright day
    A said the struggle to the one bright day
    struggle to the one bright day
    struggle to the one bright day

    Make it to the two bright days
    make it to thre-------ooh
    lord, the people got together
    the people got together

    So there can be, many, many, years and years and years

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
    4:12
    3Who Will Be There
    So I pop the question
    who will be there
    who will be there, hey could you tell me who
    who will be there
    who will be there

    We need each other more than we ever did or will
    we got to get together
    we got to do what Jah Jah will, or, get burnt within the fire
    that's not my desire

    Who will be there, hey could you tell me who
    who will be there
    who will be there, hey could you tell me who
    who will be there

    So pack your bags let's be on our way
    we got to move out within the morrows
    the cripple and the blind you best not waste no time
    we got to move out within morrow
    a question giving them horror

    Who will be there
    who will be there, hey could you tell me who
    who will be there
    who will be there, hey hey

    SOLO

    Will you be there to see Jah shining face
    and to drink life giving waters
    will you be there to see morning sun
    and to live a sweet life forever
    a question needs an answer

    Who will be there
    who will be there, come on, come on, come on, come on and
    who will be there
    who will be there

    Who will be there, this is the start of something new
    who will be there, so come on and tell me, hey, will you
    who will be there, a said is a start of something brand new
    who will be there, hey a wanna know who

    repeat

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
    4:10
    4When the Lights Gone Out
    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    A battery tape playing in the street
    my only relief
    all we have is just the music

    No matter what the crisis
    it keep the spirit lively
    just as you feeling blue
    well I'll be there for you

    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    Pretty girls dance in the street
    my only relief
    all we have is just the music

    There ain't no dance
    unless you have good music
    if you don't have good music
    then you don't have a chance

    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    And a battery tape playing in the street
    my only relief
    all we have is just the music

    SOLO

    When there ain't no justice to be found
    they kicking you around
    all we have is just the music

    When the light gone out and the food run out
    all we own is just music

    You all know there ain't no party
    unless the music Irie
    there ain't no love unless you show me

    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    when there ain't no justice to be found
    is just the music
    when there ain't no answer from above
    when there ain't no one to love
    is just the music

    When there ain't no shoe on your feet
    when there ain't nothing to eat
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
    4:09
    5All Love
    There's something going on over there
    there's something going on over there
    but there's something going on right here, and it's our life
    I see some boogie, out of their shoes
    some just grooving, grooving to the groove
    I am skanking, skanking loose
    but we're all doing the same thing

    It's just all love
    got to be all love
    it's just all love
    that's right, all love

    Wake up your love in the morning
    wake up your love in the night
    Shape up the love, shape up the love in the morning
    shape up that love tonight

    There's something going on over there
    well there's something going on over there
    but there's something happening right here
    it's our life, I and, I and I life
    some smile all the time, some a pop, pop till you drop
    do a steady rock, rock steady easy
    'cause we're in the same thing

    It's just all love
    got to be all love, tonight
    it's all love
    people give it, all love, now, what what

    Shake up this place let the earth quake
    wake up this place let the earth vibrate
    shake up this place let the earth quake
    wake up this place let the earth vibrate
    'cause there's something going on

    SOLO

    Well there's something wrong going on over there
    and there's something wrong, way, way, way, way, way back there
    but there's something right, right here
    it's our life, I and I life

    All love
    I'm giving it, all love
    I don't, I don't know that, all love
    I'm giving it, all love

    I can't hold back, all love
    tonight, it's just all love, alright
    all love
    don't hold back, all love

    There's something happening right here
    there's something happening right here
    there's something happening right here
    all love, all love, all love, that's what going on, all love

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth
    4:39
    6Look Who's Dancin'
    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing now
    Look who's dancing
    Oh look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing now

    Well, first the dance floor
    was like a forbidden land
    where people would never dare to go
    but now everyone's doing it
    I said it's a dance galore

    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing now
    Look who's dancing
    Oh look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing now

    And some are dancing on their feet
    Some are jumping off the floor
    And look at old Granny "B"
    She got the, she caught the, she knows the groove for sure

    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing now, right around
    Look who's dancing
    Who is dancing
    Look who's dancing now, get on the floor

    GROOVE SECTION

    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing now, around the world
    Look who's dancing
    oh look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing now

    And some are dancing on their feet
    some are jumping off the floor
    and look at old Tauter him
    he got the, he got the, he got the, he got the beat for sure

    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing
    Look who's dancing now
    Look who's dancing
    check the dancing
    Look who's dancing now, get on the floor

    (groove section)

    Do the ska, the rock steady, the ridim and blues
    and if you catch them, then you do the della move
    it nuh mek nuh sense to sit down, when you know you can groove
    any type of danve you do, you neither win or lose

    And if your choice is reggae, you don't need nuh dancing shoes
    suh listen to the message, and you know you won't lose
    look who come, come dancing pow we dancing floor again
    some a dem a enemy, some a dem a friend

    Some a dem a mother and father, some a dem a children
    some a dem a loafer who a follow the trend
    and some a dem a just dey ya as we good brethen

    That's why we ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff and rugged
    ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff and rugged
    ra ra ra ragga muffin
    ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff and rugged

    That's why we ra ra ragga
    that's why we ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff and rugged
    ra ra ra ragga muffin
    so we ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff and rugged
    ra ra ra ragga muffin

    that's why we flash certain dancing style, it sound well wicked
    if a guy woulda really try, so you know him stupid
    exorcism, devilism we nuh deal wid
    our faith in jah jah man, it well, well, well solid
    so pray every day and ask for strenght and knowledge

    that's why we ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff and rugged
    that's why we ra ra ra ragga muffin
    That's why we ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff and rugged

    Producer
    David "Ziggy" Marley & Glenn Rosenstein
    5:00
    7Justice
    Justice, people say, justice
    justice, brother say, justice

    Judge me if I am weak
    judge me if I am strong
    judge my days and all life long
    they let the baby cry, let the mama cry
    and youths like I and I have to cry

    For justice, one, one, one word prayer
    justice, who yea, justice, justice

    Is like a good friend
    who long time we don't see
    why they taking liberty
    who, is like a good friend
    who long time we don't see
    why they taking liberty, with I and I and I

    Justice, yea yea yea
    justice, now not later, justice
    justice, people say

    (solo)

    For I and I, justice, justice
    justice, where are you
    justice, look what they do

    They make the innocent cry
    the innocent cry
    look what they do to Garvey
    they make the innocent die
    they make the innocent die
    how dem lie on Steve Biko

    Justice, justice, the one word prayer
    justice, who yea, justice
    the poor man cry, why do they do the wrong
    justice, they make me sing this song

    Justice, who yea woa, mmmh, yea, yea
    justice, justice, desert me not
    justice, they are on my back
    justice, the more the tears
    the more, the more we want, justice, justice
    4:12
    8Love is the Only Law
    Love is the only law to obey
    don't business what they say
    Love is the only law to obey
    don't business what they say

    We only live to learn to love
    and no lesson is greater
    make it your gain, suffer no shame

    Love is the only law to obey
    don't business what they say
    Love is the only law to obey
    don't business what they say

    We'll only live if we learn to love
    and no, no, no, no treasure is greater
    what it your aim, suffer no pain

    Love is the only law to obey
    I know you care what they say
    Love is the only law to obey
    I know you care what they say

    If it in your mind to commit the sin
    I hope you know, no destruction is greater
    what is your aim, you better explain

    (solo)

    Love is the only law to obey
    oh yea, don't care what they say
    Love is the only law to obey
    don't care what they say

    Kid you only live if you learn to love
    and no lesson is greater
    make it your gain, suffer no shame

    Love is the only law to obey
    Love is the only law to obey
    Love is the only law to obey
    I don't give a ---- what they say

    I obey, you obey, she obey, he obey
    we obey, you obey, I obey, you obey
    she obey, we obey, you obey, we obey
    everyone, everyone, everyone

    Love is the only law to obey
    the law of life, the law of life
    the law of life

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
    4:07
    9Pains of Life
    This song is for all the children
    this song is for all the children

    Jah said if you ain't like a child
    you can't enter Mount Zion
    Jah said if you ain't like a child
    you can't enter Mount Zion
    Mount Zion, Mount Zion, Mount Zion

    Mama want you to be what she wants you to be
    you got to be what you got to be
    yes everyone suffers from the pains of life
    and everyone suffers from the pains of life
    pains of life, pains of life, the pains of life

    Solo

    Everyone suffers from the pains of life
    everyone suffers from the pains of life
    pains of life, pains of life, the pains of life

    This song is for all the children
    this song is for all the children

    Jah said if you ain't like a child
    you can't enter Mount Zion
    Jah said if you ain't like a child
    you can't enter Mount Zion
    oh Mount Zion, Mount Zion, Mount Zion

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
    3:46
    10Ur-Ban Music
    Urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music
    urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music

    Lord they figth it so
    and I bet they don't even know
    what it can do for all of you

    Urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music
    urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music

    And they will never get rid of it
    and who can refuse it
    for peace and harmony
    for love and unity

    Urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music
    urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music

    Solo

    Urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music
    urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music

    And they say it's no good for you
    and they say it can control you
    so the higher ones know

    Urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music
    urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music
    urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music

    Urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music
    urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music
    urb-an music, urb-an music, urb-an music

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
    2:54
    11Problems
    Problems, personal problems, people problems
    we people got to solve them

    Problems, big problems, small problems
    still we got to solve them

    Settle for less is problems
    we could do our best and solve them
    stop wishing and waiting, stop meditating on a fairy tale

    Problems, problems, problems
    we got to solve them
    ain't got no use for what you refuse yourself
    now, why should man abuse, man God like self

    All over the world there are problems
    who cause them, sure got the cure
    stop wishing, stop waiting, stop mistaking, problems

    Solo

    Settle for less is problems
    we got to do our best and solve them
    stop wishing, stop waiting, stop thinking of a fairy tale

    Problems, money problems, woman problems, political problems
    problems, religious problems, race problems, life problems

    Problems, personal problems, people problems
    we people must solve them
    Problems, human problems, the family problems
    a know we gonna solve them

    Problems, colour problems, any problems
    yes we have to solve them
    ain't got no use for what you refuse yourself
    why should man abuse, man God like self

    Hey someone got a problem, personal problem,
    people problem, come now let us solve them

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
    4:02
    12All You Got
    We love reggae music
    all you got
    we love happiness
    all you got
    peace not war
    all you got
    let's make some joy, rigt now

    Well easy, well hard
    can't sit and reason with hypcrites
    just teasing, that's all
    can't sit and eat with hypocrites

    We love reggae music
    all you got
    we love happiness
    all you got
    peace not war
    let's make, I wanna make some joy

    What burden, what tasks
    can't be dealt with diplomats?
    which pardon should we ask
    can't be given by aristocrats

    We love reggae music
    all you got
    we love happiness
    all you got
    peace not war
    let's make some joy
    in a dub wise

    Dem dub wise
    dem dub dance
    can't be done by stiff necks
    now let's dance
    and you take a chance
    but you can't complete with roots man

    We love reggae music
    all you got, all you got
    happiness, treat me
    peace not war, no war
    let's make, we wanna make some joy
    let's do it

    solo

    well, well well well well well easy, well hard
    can't sit and reason with hypocrites
    they are just teasing brother that's all
    can't sit and eat with hypocrites

    we love reggae music, all you got
    we love happiness, yes I will do my best
    peace not war, no no war
    let's just make some joy, choose it

    heavy music, hevy music, hevy music
    music of the bird, music of the sea
    the music which is to be, reggae music
    R & B, a soul, rock and roll
    this a music, a reggae music, a reggae music
    all music, universal language, music, music music

    Producer
    Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth
    4:19
    13When the Lights Gone Out (Jamaican Stylee)
    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    A battery tape playing in the street
    my only relief
    all we have is just the music

    No matter what the crisis
    it keep the spirit lively
    just as you feeling blue
    well I'll be there for you

    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    Pretty girls dance in the street
    my only relief
    all we have is just the music

    There ain't no dance
    unless you have good music
    if you don't have good music
    then you don't have a chance

    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    And a battery tape playing in the street
    my only relief
    all we have is just the music

    SOLO

    When there ain't no justice to be found
    they kicking you around
    all we have is just the music

    When the light gone out and the food run out
    all we own is just music

    You all know there ain't no party
    unless the music Irie
    there ain't no love unless you show me

    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    When the lights gone out and the food run out
    when there ain't no justice to be found
    is just the music
    when there ain't no answer from above
    when there ain't no one to love
    is just the music

    When there ain't no shoe on your feet
    when there ain't nothing to eat
    all we have is just the music
    when the lights gone out and the food run out
    all we have is just the music

    Producer
    Ziggy Marley, Glenn Rosenstein, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
    4:52
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Hey World!

  • Hey World!
    1986
  • A major step forward, Hey World! exhibits a depth totally unexpected after the Melody Makers' reggae-pop lite debut. The group may still be caught in the crossfire between upbeat pop and heavier cultural roots, but this is a battle that will happily rage within their sound for years.

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    #Track TitleTime
    1Give a Little Love4:02
    2Get Up Jah Jah Children3:49
    3Hey World!4:07
    4Fight to Survive4:16
    5Freedom Road4:34
    6Say People3:38
    76 6 65:36
    8Police Brutality4:52
    9Lord We a Come3:24
    10Reggae Revolution
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