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January 2, 2007

Bob Marley Turn Your Lights Down Low

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Turn your lights down low
And pull your window curtains
Oh let Jah moon come shining in
Into our life again
Sayin' oh it's been a long long long long time
I kept this message for you girl
But it seems I was never on time
Still I wanna get through to you girl
On time

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Bob Marley Work

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We jah people can make it work
Come together and make it work
We can make it work
We can make it work

Five days to go working for the next day
Four days to go working for the next day
Say we got
Three days to go working for the next day
Two days to go working for the next day
Say we got
One day to go working for the
Every day is work, work, work, work

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Bob Marley Why Should I

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Why should I bend down my head and cry?
Why should I bend down my head and cry?
The old world has ended,
The new world has just begun.
And all them people that live therein
Shall live on and on.
One more thing:
Got to get what I need,
Got to get what I want.
Got to get what I need,
Got to get what I want.
Got to get satisfaction,
Got to get the action.
Got love and affection.
One more thing:

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Bob Marley Who The Cap Fit

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Man to man is so unjust, children
You don't know who to trust
Your worst enemy could be your best friend
And your best friend your worst enemy

Some will eat and drink with you
Then behind them su-su 'pon you
Only your friend know your secrets
So only he could reveal it
And who the cap fit, let them wear it (repeat)
Said I throw me corn, me no call no fowl
I saying, "cok-cok-cok, cluck-cluck-cluck"

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Bob Marley We And Them

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We no know how we and them
a go work this out
we no know how we and them
a go work it out

but someone will have to pay
for the innocent blood
that they shed every day
oh children mark my word
it's what the bible say yeah! yeah!

we no know how we and them
a go work this out
we no know how we and them
a go work it out

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Bob Marley War

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What life has taught me
I would like to share with
Those who want to learn...

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 are 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

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Bob Marley Want More

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Now you get, what you want
Do you want more
(repeat)

You think it's the end
But it's just the beginning
(repeat)
Go down back-biter, down back-bite, down back-biter (repeat)
They stab you in the back
And they claim you're not looking
But JAH have them in the region
In the valley of decision
In the valley of decision

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Bob Marley Wake Up and Live

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Wake Up and Live Ya Wake Up and Live
Wake Up and Live Now
Wake Up and Live

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Bob Marley Waiting in Vain

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I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love
From the very first time I blessed my eyes on you, girl
My heart says, "Follow through."
But I know now that I'm way down on your line
But the waiting feel is fine

So don't treat me like a puppet on a string
'Cause I know how to do my thing

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Bob Marley Zimbabwe

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Every man gotta right
To decide his own destiny
And in this judgment
There is no partiality
So arm in arms, with arms
We will fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way
We can overcome our little trouble

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fight for our rights

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Bob Marley Zion Train

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Zion train is coming our way
Zion train is coming our way
Oh people get on board
You better get on board
Thank the lord, praise Fari
I gotta catch this train
Cause there is no other station
Then you going in the same direction

Zion train is coming our way
Zion train is coming our way

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Bob Marley Lively Up Yourself

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You're gonna lively up yourself and
Don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, oh
Reggae is another bag
You lively up yourself and don't say no
You're gonna lively up yourself
'Cause I said so
(Hear what you gonna do)
You rock so you rock so
Like you never did before
You dip so, you dip so
Dip thru my door
You come so, you come so,
Oh yeah!
You skank so, you skank so,
Be alive today.

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Bob Marley Lick Samba

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Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba
Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba

I could not resist
Another like dis

And though I know you hurt me, you care
I'll go on, I'll feel the pain
And it's not that I am week
But it's that I'm on a peak

Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba
Lick Samba, Lick Samba, Lick Samba woh oh Lick Samba

Bring it up, lick it one time
I'll settle a little (a claim?) baby
You can write it down in my name
Morning time, noon or night

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Bob Marley Keep on Moving

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Lord I got to keep on moving
Lord I got to get on down
Lord I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found, where I can't be found
Lord they coming after me

I've been accused on my mission
JAH knows you shouldn't do
For hanging me they were willing yeah! yeah!
And that's why I've got to get on thru
Lord they coming after me

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Bob Marley Kaya

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Wake up and turn I loose,
Wake up and turn I loose
For the rain is falling

Got to have kaya now, got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now, for the rain is falling

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Bob Marley Jump Nyabinghi

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Love to see, when ya move in the rhythm
I love to see, when you're dancing from within
It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness
Everyone's doing, and they're doing their best
It remind I of the days in Jericho
When we trodding down Jericho walls
These are the days when we'll trod through Babylon
Gonna trod until Babylon falls

Sing your song yah!
Jump, jump, jump NYABINGHI
Jump, jump, jump NYABINGHI
(repeat)

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Bob Marley Judge Not

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Don't you look at me so smugle
And say I'm going bad
Who are you to judge me
And the life I got I live
I know that I'm not perfect
And that I don't live to be
So before you hint your finger
Show your hands are clean

Judge not,
Before you judge yourself
Judge not,
If you're not ready for judgement, ohoho

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Bob Marley Johnny Was

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Woman hold her head and cry
Cause her son had been
Shot down in the street
And died
From a stray bullet

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Bob Marley Jamming

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We're jamming
I wanna jam it with you,
We're jamming, jamming
And I hope you like jamming too

Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow
I and I will see you through,
'Cos every day we pay the price with a little sacrifice
Jamming till the jam is through.

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Bob Marley Jailhouse

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Jailhouse keeps empty [rudie gets healt'y]
Baton sticks get shorter [rudie gets taller]
Can't fight against the youth now coz they so wrong [yout' a good good rudie]
Can't fight against the youth now coz 'e is strong [yout' a good good rudie]
Prediction, them people are going wild [Dem a rude rude people]
Dem peegoo a goin' wil' [Dem a rude rude people]
Shake 'er one time for me sir [she a rude rude people]
Shake 'er one time for me sir [she a rude rude people]
The message, we gonna rule this land
Can't fight against prediction, [wise wise rudie]
What has been hid from the wise and the polluted is how me feel

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Bob Marley Jah Live

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Jah Live
Children yeah
Jah Jah Live children yeah
Jah Live
Children yeah
Jah Jah Live children yeah

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Bob Marley It Hurts To Be Alone

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After he, breaks your heart
Then you'll be sad
And your teardrops start
Then you'll know how
It hurts to be alone

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Bob Marley Is This Love

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I wanna love you, and treat you right
I wanna love you, every day and every night
We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter, of my single bed
We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

Is this love, is this love, is this love
Is this love that I am feeling (repeat)
I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know now
I got to know, got to know, got to know now

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Bob Marley Iron Lion Zion

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I am on the rock and then I check a stock
I have to run like a fugitive to save the life I live
I'm gonna be Iron like a Lion in Zion (repeat)
Iron Lion Zion
I'm on the run but I ain't got no gun
See they want to be the star
So they fighting tribal war
And they saying Iron like a Lion in Zion
Iron like a Lion in Zion,
Iron Lion Zion

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Bob Marley I'm still waiting

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I'm still waiting, I'm still waiting,
I'm still waiting, I'm still waiting for you,
Why oh why, why oh why?

I said my feet won't keep me up anymore.
Ev'ry little beat my heart beats, girl,
It's at your door.
I just wanna love you
And I'm never gonna hurt you, girl.
So why won't you come out to me now, girl?
Oh, can't you see I'm under your spell?
But, I got to, got to go.

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Bob Marley I'm Hurting Inside

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When I was just a little child,
Happiness was there awhile.
Then from me, yeah, it slipped one day.
Happiness, come back, I say.
'Cause if you don't come, I've got to go
Lookin' for happiness.
Well, if you don't come, I've got to go
Lookin', Lord, for happiness, happpiness.

I'm hurting inside.
I'm hurting inside.
Oh, hear my cry, hear my cry, yeah,
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, cry.

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Bob Marley I Shot the Sheriff

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I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Oh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooh, ooh, ooh Yeah

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Bob Marley I Am Going Home

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I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home
Well when I look over Jordan what did I see
Coming for to carry me home
Well there's a whole bunch of angels coming [everybody]
Coming for to carry me home, and
I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home
And if you reach up there before I do
Coming for to carry me home
Just tell everyone that I'm a coming up there too
Coming for to carry me home [everybody]
I am going home, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I am going home

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Bob Marley How Many Times

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How many times I've told you I love you?
But now you want to say that we are through
Oh, what more can I do?
What more can I say to you?
Now you're gone...

Do you remember that first night we met?
That was a moment I never will forget
Love was at first sight
You came walking through the pale,
Pale moonlight
Pale moonlight

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Bob Marley The Heathen

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Rise up fallen fighters
Rise and take your stance again.
'Cause he who fight and run away
Live to fight another day.

Chorus

As a man sow, shall he reap
And I know that talk is cheap.
So the hotter the battle
Is the sweeter the victory.

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Bob Marley Guiltiness

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Guiltiness (talkin' 'bout guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience. Oh yeah.
And they live their lives (they live their lives)
On false pretence everyday -
each and everyday. Yeah.

These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
just the small fish.
I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. Oh yeah-eah-eah-eah.

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Bob Marley Guava Jelly

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You said you love me
I said I love you
Why won't you stop your crying?
Dry your weeping eyes
You know that I love
I love, I love , I love you so, Damsel.
Here I am.
Me said, "Come rub it 'pon me belly
With you guava jelly, Damsel."
Said, "Here I stand.
Come rub it 'pon me belly with you guava jelly."
I really, really, I really love you.
Yes, I really, really love you, child.

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Bob Marley Give Thanks and Praise

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Give thanks and praises to the Most High
Give thanks and praises so High
He will not deceive us my brethren
He will only lead us again
Oh take that veil from off of your eyes
Look into the future of realise

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Bob Marley get Up, Stand Up

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Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right (3 times) Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth I know you don't know what life is really worth Is not all that glitters in gold and Half the story has never been told So now you see the light, aay Stand up for your right.

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Bob Marley Freedom Time

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Got the news from the whispering trees
This is the time when man must be freed
No more burning in vain
All we lose we'll have to gain

Get ready children please
Get ready children please
Get ready children please

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Bob Marley Forever Loving Jah

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We'll be forever loving jah
We'll be forever loving jah

Some they say see them walking up the street
They say we're going wrong to all the people we meet
But we won't worry, we won't shed no tears
We found a way to cast away the fears
Forever yeah

We'll be forever loving jah
We'll be forever
We'll be forever loving jah
Forever yes and forever
We'll be forever loving jah, there'll
Be no end

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Bob Marley Exodus

Exodus: Movement of Jah people! Oh-oh-oh, yea-eah!
Before ya doubt me let me tell ya this:
Men and people will fight ya down (Tell me why!)
When ya see Jah light. (Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
Let me tell you if you're not wrong; (Then, why?)
Everything is all right.
So we gonna walk - all right! - through de roads of creation:
We the generation (Tell me why!)
(Trod through great tribulation) trod through great tribulations.

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Bob Marley Easy Skanking

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Easy skanking, skanking it easy
Easy skanking, skanking it slow (repeat)

Excuse me while I light my spliff
Good GOD I gotta take a lift
From reality I just can't drift
That's why I am staying with this riff

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Bob Marley Duppy Conqueror

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Yes me friend
We de a street again
Yes me friend (me good friend)
Dem say we're free again
The bars could not hold me
Force could not control me, now
They try to keep me down
But Jah put I around
Yes, I've been accused (many a times)
And wrongly abused, now
But through the powers of the most-high
They've got to turn me loose
Don't try to cold me up on this bridge,
now I've got to reach mount zion -
The highest region
So if you're a bull-bucker,
Let me tell you this -
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror!
Yes me friend (me good friend)
We de a street again
Yes me friend (me good friend)
Dem say we're free again
So don't try to cold me up on this bridge,
now I've got to reach mount zion -
The highest region
So if you're a bull-bucker,
Let me tell you this -
I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror!
Yes me friend Dem say we're free again, oh, oh yeah!
Yes me friend Dem set me free again