Happy birthday Bob Marley

[tularetom]

Hard to believe he'd be 64 if he were still with us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHgMD1S0bg

[patrice]

1. Yeah!

Bob Marley and I were born in the same week!

[ixion]

2. One of the Great Human Beings

the world is better place because of what he left behind.

Redemption Song

Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? ooh!
Some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.

Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
---
/guitar break/
---
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.
Wont you help to sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.

[reggie the dog]

12. he would have made a great head of the UN

He would have worked greatly to promote peace and discourage war.

[demokatgurrl]

14. One of my favorite songs. Thanks for posting.

Must go listen to the CD now.

[boobooday]

3. Happy Birthday Bob

From all the peopleness.

:party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke:

[elleng]

4. WoW! I was2 days older than he.

.

[marmar]

5. Happy B-Day, Mr. Marley......

....your spirit lives on. :toast:


One good thing about music, when it hits you
Feel no pain (repeat)
So hit me with music, hit me with music
Hit me with music, hit me with music now
I got to say trench town rock
I say don't watch that
Trench town rock, big fish or sprat
Trench town rock, you reap what you sow
Trench town rock, and everyone know now
Trench town rock, don't turn your back
Trench town rock, give the slum a try
Trench town rock, never let the children cry
Trench town rock, cause you got to tell JAH, JAH

You grooving Kingston 12, grooving, Kingston12
Grooving woe, woe, it's Kingston 12
Grooving it's Kingston 12
No want you fe galang so,
No want you fe galang so

You want come cold I up
But you can't come cold I up
Cause I'm grooving, yes I'm grooving

I say one good thing, one good thing
When it hits you fel no pain
One good thing about music
When it hits you feel no pain
So hit me with music
Hit me with music now
Hit me with music, hit me with music
Look at that, Trench Town rock
I say don't watch that, Trench Town rock
If you big fish or sprat, Trench Town rock
You reap what you sow, Trench Town rock
And everyone know now, Trench Town rock
Don't turn your back, Trench Town rock
Give the slum a try, Trench Town rock
Never let the children cry, Trench Town rock
Cause you got to tell JAH, JAH why
Grooving, grooving, grooving, grooving

[bdamomma]

6. Redemption Song was one his greatest!!

Happy Birthday Bob Marley.

[Soylent Brice]

8. and Satisfy My Soul, and Rebel

[progressoid]

15. And Get up, Stand Up and No Woman, No Cry and Exodus and Jamming and...

Ok, I know what I'm listening to tonight!

[Soylent Brice]

7. this one's for you

*click click of the bic*

[salguine]

9. Well. Perhaps today I shall lively up myself.

[SidDithers]

10. Much reespek, Mr. Marley...nt

Sid

[reggie the dog]

11. gonna smoke some good hash and listen to Rastaman Chant

right now! "hey bobby marley, play something good for me, this world go crazy, it's an emergency" from a song from Manu Chau

[reggie the dog]

13. if you do not know it listen to his song called "war"

well, the words all come from a speeh at the UN by Haile Selassie

"until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.

That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war.

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola,
In Mozambique,
South Africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War - war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The African continent
Will not know peace,
We Africans will fight - we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory

Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah! "

[B3Nut]

16. Classic track

and pretty much sums it up.

Happy Birthday Bob! Gone way too damn soon, you were.

[TBF]

17. Stir it up, Mr. Marley, we miss you... n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

18. "In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty"

Thus spake Bob Marley.

Rat Race
(lyrics)

Uh! Ya too rude!

Uh! Eh! What a rat race!
Oh, what a rat race!
Oh, what a rat race!
Oh, what a rat race!
This is the rat race! Rat race! (Rat race!)

Some a lawful, some a bastard, some a jacket:
Oh, what a rat race, yeah! Rat race!

Some a gorgon-a, some a hooligan-a, some a guine-gog-a
In this 'ere rat race, yeah!
Rat race!
I'm singin' that
When the cat's away,
The mice will play.
Political violence fill ya city, ye-ah!
Don't involve Rasta in your say;
Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.
Rat race, rat race, rat race! Rat race, I'm sayin':
When you think is peace and safety:
A sudden destruction.
Collective security for surety, ye-ah!

Don't forget your history;
Know your destiny:
In the abundance of water,
The fool is thirsty.
Rat race, rat race, rat race!

Rat race!
Oh, it's a disgrace
To see the human-race
In a rat race, rat race!
You got the horse race;
You got the dog race;
You got the human-race;
But this is a rat race, rat race!

:smoke::smoke::smoke:

Immense Respect, Mister Marley. We miss you!

:smoke::smoke::smoke:

[OneBlueSky]

19. "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley (1967)

sure hope he's right . . .

Dont worry about a thing,
cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin: dont worry about a thing,
cause every little thing gonna be all right!

Rise up this mornin,
Smiled with the risin sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin, (this is my message to you-ou-ou). . .

Singin: dont worry bout a thing,
cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin: dont worry (dont worry) bout a thing,
cause every little thing gonna be all right!

Rise up this mornin,
Smiled with the risin sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin, this is my message to you-ou-ou . . .

Singin: dont worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. dont worry!
Singin: dont worry about a thing - I wont worry!
cause every little thing gonna be all right.

Singin: dont worry about a thing,
cause every little thing gonna be all right - I wont worry!
Singin: dont worry about a thing,
cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin: dont worry about a thing, oh no!
cause every little thing gonna be all right!

fyi, the album title is Exodus . . .

[AdvancedProgress]

20. Exodus, Rebel Music, Heathen, Concrete Jungle, Burnin &...

Lootin', Lively Up Yourself, Get Up Stand Up, Could You Be Loved?, African Herbsman, Kinky Raggae, War/No More Trouble, Is This Love, Rat Race, Midnight Ravers, Stir It Up, 400 Years, and on and on and on...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB!!!!!!

:party:

O8)

[Mnemosyne]

21. Poet and a prophet.

:smoke:

[mia]

22. Thanks for this post. I heard him for the first time live in Miami.

We were 2 rows of people up front and in the middle. I think it must have been a rehearsal.

That day changed me forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg2n039txnk&feature=related