1/But my hand was made strong by the hand of the Almighty ; 4/ When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open ;
2/don´t forget your history nor your destiny ; 5/What does rasta mean? Righteousness ; ;
3/ ;You have to be someone ; 6/The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall ;
REFERENCES, QUOTES, SAYINGS AND CATATIONS BY BOB MARLEY
Bob Marley
Bob Marley Quote # 1: ;(I drive) a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 2: ;A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow ;
Bob Marley Quote # 3: ;Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet ;
Bob Marley Quote # 4: ;But my hand was made strong by the hand of the Almighty ;
Bob Marley Quote # 5: ;Do you admire any women? Dat woman in America...Angela Davis. A woman like that who defends something; me can appreciate that ;
Bob Marley Quote # 6: ;Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear ;
Bob Marley Quote # 7: ;don´t forget your history nor your destiny ;
Bob Marley Quote # 8: ;Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold ;
Bob Marley Quote # 9: ;Don't Let them fool ya or even try to school ya ;
Bob Marley Quote # 10: ;Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright ;
Bob Marley Quote # 11: ;Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.. ;
Bob Marley Quote # 12: ;Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny ;
Bob Marley Quote # 13: ;Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow ;
Bob Marley Quote # 14: ;Excuse me while I light my spliff good God I gotta take a lift ;
Bob Marley Quote # 15: ;Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one ;
Bob Marley Quote # 16: ;Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen ;
Bob Marley Quote # 17: ;Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction ;
Bob Marley Quote # 18: ;Here come a man like me saying 'Don't vote!' Rasta no vote ;
Bob Marley Quote # 19: ;Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it what to be got to be ;
Bob Marley Quote # 20: ;How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans ;
Bob Marley Quote # 21: ;How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look? ;
Bob Marley Quote # 22: ;How much do you smoke? Plenty ;
Bob Marley Quote # 23: ;I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man ;
Bob Marley Quote # 24: ;I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the
white man's side. I stand for God's side ;
Bob Marley Quote # 25: ;I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 26: ;I go to jail one time for no driver license ;
Bob Marley Quote # 27: ;I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me ;
Bob Marley Quote # 28: ;I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car ;
Bob Marley Quote # 29: ;I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue ;
Bob Marley Quote # 30: ;I like to see you move with the rhythm; I Like to see when you're dancing' from within ;
Bob Marley Quote # 31: ;I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you ;
Bob Marley Quote # 32: ;I love the development of our music, that's what I really dig about the whole thing. How we've tried to develop, y'know? It grows. That's why every day people come forward with new songs. Music goes on forever ;
Bob Marley Quote # 33: ;I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do ;
Bob Marley Quote # 34: ;I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin' ;
Bob Marley Quote # 35: ;I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' instead...but it's the same idea: justice ;
Bob Marley Quote # 36: ;If I am guilty I will pay ;
Bob Marley Quote # 37: ;If you are the big, big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 38: ;If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say ;
Bob Marley Quote # 39: ;I'm a man of God and me come to do God's work ;
Bob Marley Quote # 40: ;in the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty ;
Bob Marley Quote # 41: ;In this bright future you can't forget your past ;
Bob Marley Quote # 42: ;Is the foolish dog, bark at the flying bird ;
Bob Marley Quote # 43: ;I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through ;
Bob Marley Quote # 44: ;Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine ;
Bob Marley Quote # 45: ;Jah will never give the power to a baldhead! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 46: ;Just can't live that negative way... make way for the positive day! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 47: ;Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The sigularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth ;
Bob Marley Quote # 48: ;Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 49: ;Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God ;
Bob Marley Quote # 50: ;Man is a universe within himself ;
Bob Marley Quote # 51: ;Me can't tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision ;
Bob Marley Quote # 52: ;Me never believe in marriage that much...marriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong ;
Bob Marley Quote # 53: ;Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all ;
Bob Marley Quote # 54: ;My future is righteousness ;
Bob Marley Quote # 55: ;My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die ;
Bob Marley Quote # 56: ;My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever ;
Bob Marley Quote # 57: ;No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow neither can be bought or sold ;
Bob Marley Quote # 58: ;No man can lead man, we have to have unity ;
Bob Marley Quote # 59: ;None but ourselves can free our minds ;
Bob Marley Quote # 60: ;Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard ;
Bob Marley Quote # 61: ;One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain ;
Bob Marley Quote # 62: ;Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive ;
Bob Marley Quote # 63: ;I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 64: ;Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? ;
Bob Marley Quote # 65: ;Overcome the devils with a thing named love ;
Bob Marley Quote # 66: ;People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people ;
Bob Marley Quote # 67: ;Politics no interest me. Dem devil business.... Dem a play with peoples minds. Never play with peoples minds ;
Bob Marley Quote # 68: ;Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality ;
Bob Marley Quote # 69: ;Rastaman vibrations gonna cover the earth! Like the water cover the sea! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 70: ;Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day ;
Bob Marley Quote # 71: ;Sometimes you have to fight with music ;
Bob Marley Quote # 72: ;'Tell the children the truth' ;
Bob Marley Quote # 73: ;The authorities tell you that you mustn't smoke herb because it's bad for you. Yet if they catch you at it they'll carry you off to prison. I think it's better to be smoking herb out here free than being in prison ;
Bob Marley Quote # 74: ;The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thing you must know about yourself listening to me is that words are tricky. So when you know what me a stand for, when me explain a thing to you, you must ne ;
Bob Marley Quote # 75: ;The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tommorrow ;
Bob Marley Quote # 76: ;The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory ;
Bob Marley Quote # 77: ;The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall ;
Bob Marley Quote # 78: ;The only truth is Rastafari ;
Bob Marley Quote # 79: ;The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead ;
Bob Marley Quote # 80: ;The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder baby; here I am a stone ;
Bob Marley Quote # 81: ;To make music is a life that I have to live ;
Bob Marley Quote # 82: ;Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned...WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafari ;
Bob Marley Quote # 83: ;We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man ;
Bob Marley Quote # 84: ;We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be ;
Bob Marley Quote # 85: ;Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep ;
Bob Marley Quote # 86: ;What does rasta mean? Righteousness ; ;
Bob Marley Quote # 87: ;When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open ;
Bob Marley Quote # 88: ;When the cats away, the mice will play! ;
Bob Marley Quote # 89: ;When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the pace ;
Bob Marley Quote # 90: ;When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb --- it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself ;
Bob Marley Quote # 91: ;You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry ;
Bob Marley Quote # 92: ;You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the timeYou can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time ;
Bob Marley Quote # 93: ;You have to be someone ;
Bob Marley Quote # 94: ;You smoke herb in Zimbabwe? Yeh, One night we go to a soldier place and a guerilla call out to me and give me a touch of something...and that was it. No wonder they won the war! Tell ya boy, dem mon smoke some good herb mon! De tell me they smoke that herb and feel brave. Them tell me it make them...invisible ; ;
Bob Marley Quote # 95: Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy ;
Bob Marley Quote # 96: Man to Man is so unjust
Unaweza soma pia baadhi ya vile Bob amewahi zungumzia pitia muziki.
BOB MARLEY lyrics - "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na.
Them belly full, but we hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dutty tough;
A yot a-yook, but d' yood no 'nough.
You're gonna dance to Jah music, dance;
We're gonna dance to Jah music, dance, oh-ooh!
Forget your troubles and dance!
Forget your sorrows and dance!
Forget your sickness and dance!
Forget your weakness and dance!
Cost of livin' gets so high,
Rich and poor they start to cry:
Now the weak must get strong;
They say, "Oh, what a tribulation!"
Them belly full, but we hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dutty tough;
A pot a-yook, but d' yood* no 'nough.
We're gonna chuck to Jah music - chuckin';
We're chuckin' to Jah music - we're chuckin'.
A belly full, but them hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dutty tough;
A pot a-cook, but d' food* no 'nough.
A hungry man is a angry man;
A rain a-fall, but the dutty tough;
A pot a-yook, but you no 'nough'
A rain a-fall, but the dutty tough.
A pot a-cook, but you no 'nough;
A hungry mob is a angry mob;
A hungry mob is a angry mob. /fadeout/
[*Sheet music gives this line as: "A pot a cook but you no' nough".]
BOB MARLEY - "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" lyrics
BOB MARLEY lyrics - "Lively Up Yourself"
Lively up yourself and don't be no drag
Lively up yourself, 'cause this is the other bag
Hey, lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, dig it, the other bag
Hey, you rock so, you rock so, like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so, and you can dip thru my door
You come so, you come so, oh yeah, like I do adore you
You skank so, you skank so, and-a I can assure you
You can lively up yourself and don't be no drag
Hey, you lively up yourself, can you dig it?
Hey (you rock so, you rock so), like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so, can you dig it?
You lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, 'cause this is the other bag
Hey, lively up yourself
Lively up yourself, other bag
Can you dig it? Can you dig it? ...
BOB MARLEY lyrics - "Lively Up Yourself"
Lively up yourself and don't be no drag
Lively up yourself, 'cause this is the other bag
Hey, lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, dig it, the other bag
Hey, you rock so, you rock so, like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so, and you can dip thru my door
You come so, you come so, oh yeah, like I do adore you
You skank so, you skank so, and-a I can assure you
You can lively up yourself and don't be no drag
Hey, you lively up yourself, can you dig it?
Hey (you rock so, you rock so), like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so, can you dig it?
You lively up yourself and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, 'cause this is the other bag
Hey, lively up yourself
Lively up yourself, other bag
Can you dig it? Can you dig it? ...
BOB MARLEY - "Lively Up Yourself" lyrics
BOB MARLEY lyrics - "Get Up, Stand Up"
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Preacherman, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!
Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)
We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)
So you better:
Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! [fadeout]
BOB MARLEY - "Get Up, Stand Up" lyrics
BOB MARLEY lyrics - "Small Axe"
Why boasteth thyself
Oh, evil men
Playing smart
And not being clever?
I said, you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so)
But the goodness of Jah, Jah
I-dureth for-I-ver
So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
These are the words
Of my master, keep on tellin' me
No weak heart
Shall prosper
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, fall in it
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it (... fall in it)
If you are the big tree, let me tell you that
We are the small axe, sharp and ready
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
(To cut you down)
(To cut you down)
These are the words
Of my master, tellin' me that
No weak heart
Shall prosper
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall fall in it, uh, bury in it
And whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall bury in it, uh (... bury in it)
If you are the big, big tree
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
If you are the big, big tree, let me tell you that
We are the small axe
Ready to cut you down (well sharp)
To cut you down
Sharpened ...
BOB MARLEY - "Small Axe" lyrics
BOB MARLEY lyrics - "So Much Things To Say"
Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Ooh yeah, yeah!
They got so much things to say right now;
They got so much things to say.
They got so much things to say right now;
They got so much things to say.
Eh! But I'll never forget no way: they crucified Je-sus Christ;
I'll never forget no way: they stole Marcus Garvey for rights.
Oo-ooh!
I'll never forget no way: they turned their back on Paul Bogle.
Hey-ey!
So don't you forget (no way) your youth,
who you are and where you stand in the struggle.
They go so very, so very, so very, so very, so very, so very,
so very, so very, so very, so very, so very -
everything they say - so much to say.
They got so much things to say, so much things to say.
I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood,
But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places.
So while they fight you down,
Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises.
'Cos I'n'I no expect to be justified
by the laws of men - by the laws of men.
Oh, true they have found me guilty,
But through - through Jah proved my innocency.
Oh, when the rain fall, fall, fall now,
It don't fall on one man's housetop. Remember that:
When the rain fall,
It don't fall on one man's housetop.
They singin': so very much, so very much, oh so very much,
so very, very -
They got so much things to say right now;
yeah, they got so much things to say.
Hey, but I'n'I - I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood,
But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places.
So while, so while, so while they fight you down,
Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises.
I'n'I no expect to be justified
by the laws of men - by the laws of men.
Oh, hey through Jah to prove my innocency,
I told you wicked think they found me guilty.
They got la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la;
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la;
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la;
la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
- they "la" very much all the time.
So much things to say, rumour about,
they got so much without humour,
they don't know what they're doin', yeah.
BOB MARLEY - "So Much Things To Say" lyrics
BOB MARLEY lyrics - "Africa Unite"
Ziya-po ya-ya, pa-pa-ya-pa!
Ti-da-lee, na po-po pu-du-loo!
Ste-na-peh na-na po po-ro po!
Africa unite:
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon,
And we're going to our Father's land, yea-ea.
How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yea-eah! -
To see the unification of all Africans, yeah! -
As it's been said a'ready, let it be done, yeah!
We are the children of the Rastaman;
We are the children of the Iyaman.
So-o, Africa unite:
'Cause the children (Africa unite) wanna come home.
Africa unite:
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon, yea,
And we're grooving to our Father's land, yea-ea.
How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man
To see the unification of all Rastaman, yeah.
As it's been said a'ready, let it be done!
I tell you who we are under the sun:
We are the children of the Rastaman;
We are the children of the Iyaman.
So-o: Africa unite,
Afri - Africa unite, yeah!
Unite for the benefit (Africa unite) for the benefit of your people!
Unite for it's later (Africa unite) than you think!
Unite for the benefit (Africa unite) of my children!
Unite for it's later (Africa uniting) than you think!
Africa awaits (Africa unite) its creators!
Africa awaiting (Africa uniting) its Creator!
Africa, you're my (Africa unite) forefather cornerstone!
Unite for the Africans (Africa uniting) abroad
Unite for the Africans (Africa unite) a yard! [fadeout]
BOB MARLEY - "Africa Unite" lyrics
