We refuse to beWhat you wanted us to be;We are what we are:That’s the way (way) it’s going to be. You don’t know!You can’t educate IFor no equal opportunity:(Talkin’ ’bout my freedom) Talkin’ ’bout my freedom,People freedom (freedom) and liberty!Yeah, we’ve been trodding on the winepress much too long:Rebel, rebel!Yes, we’ve been trodding on the […]
Category Archives: Bob Marley
Stir It Up
Stir it up; little darlin’, stir it up. Come on, baby.Come on and stir it up: little darlin’, stir it up. O-oh! It’s been a long, long time, yeah!(stir it, stir it, stir it together)Since I got you on my mind. (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) Oh-oh!Now you are here (stir it, stir it, stir it together), I said,it’s […]
Midnight Ravers
Do-do-do. Do-do-do. Do-do-do.(You can’t tell the woman from the man)No, I say you can’t, ’cause they’re dressed in the same pollution;(dressed in the same pollution)Their mind is confused with confusionWith their problems since they’ve no solution:They become the midnight ravers. Someone say:(Please, don’t let me down!)Oh, please, don’t let me – ee-ya-bab, oh, please don’t […]
Bend Down Low
Bend down low, let me tell you what I know now;Bend down low, let me tell you what I know.Oh! Fisherman row to reap what you sow now;Oh, tell you all I know (Oo-oh!),you’ve got to let me go now (Oo-oh!),And all you’ve got to do:(Bend down low) Oh yeah! Let me tell you what […]
Night Shift
The sun shall not smite I by day,Nor the moon by night;And everything that I doShall be upfull and right.And if it’s all night,It got to be all right!If it’s all night,Got to be all right! Your mamma won’t lose this one;You’re the lucky one under the sun.If you make me move,Then you know you […]
Put It On
Feel them spirit;Feel them spirit;Feel them spirit.Lord, I thank you;Lord, I thank you. Feel all right now;Feel all right now;Feel all right now. Good Lord, hear me;Good Lord, hear me. I’m not boasting;I’m not boasting;I’m not boasting, yeah!Feel like toasting;Feel like toastingSimply ’cause: I’m gonna put it on;(In the morning)I’m gonna put it on;(In the […]
Mix Up, Mix Up
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, yeah! Well, it’s not easy,It’s not easySpeak the truth, come on, speak. Eh, now!It ever cause it what it will:He who hide the wrong he didSurely did the wrong thing still. Get in the studio of –Studio of time and experienceHere we experience the good and bad;What we have, […]
Duppy Conqueror
Yes, me friend,We deh a street again.Yes, me friend, me good friend,Dem say we free again. The bars could not hold me;Force could not control me now.They try to keep me down, yeah!But Jah put I around. Yeah! Yes, I’ve been accused many a timesAnd wrongly abused, now.Oh, but through the powers of the Most-I,They’ve […]