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inhoud:
1. Positive Vibration
2. Roots,
Rock, Reggae
3. Johnny
Was
4. Cry
To Me
5. Want
More
6. Crazy
Baldheads
7. Who
The Cap Fit
8. Night
Shift
9. War
10. Rat
Race
POSITIVE
VIBRATION [Vincent Ford]
Live
if you want to live
(Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!)
That's what we got to give!
(I'n'I vibration yeah! Positive)
Got
to have a good vibe!
(Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!)
Wo-wo-ooh!
(Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!)
If
you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You're saying prayers to the devils, I say. Wo-oh-ooh!
Why
not help one another on the way?
Make
it much easier. (Just a little bit easier)
Say
you just can't live that negative way,
If
you know what I mean;
Make
way for the positive day,
'Cause it's news (new day) - news and days -
New
time (new time), and if it's a new feelin' (new feelin'), yeah! -
Said
it's a new sign (new sign):
Oh,
what a new day!
Pickin' up?
Are
you pickin' up now?
Jah
love - Jah love (protect us);
Jah
love - Jah love (protect us);
Jah
love - Jah love (protect us).
Rastaman vibration, yeah! (Positive!)
I'n'I
vibration, yeah! (Positive!) Uh-huh-huh, a
yeah!
Iyaman Iration, yeah! (Irie ites!)
Wo-oo-oh!
*Positive vibration, yeah! (Positive!)
Pickin' up?
Are
you pickin' up now?
Pickin' up?
Are
you pickin' up now?
Pickin'
up?
(Jah love, Jah love -)
Are
you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin'
up?
(Jah love, Jah love -)
Are
you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin'
up?
(Jah love, Jah love -)
Are
you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up?
Are
you pickin' up now?
[*
Sleeve notes give this line as "Vibes, got to have a good
vibe".]
2. ROOTS,
ROCK, REGGAE [Vincent Ford]
Play
I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Play
I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!
Hey,
Mister Music, sure sounds good to me!
I
can't refuse it: what to be got to be.
Feel
like dancing, dance 'cause we are free;
Feel
like dancing, come dance with me!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae, yeah! Dis a reggae music!
Play
I some music: dis a reggae music!
Play
I some music: dis a reggae music!
Play
I on the R&B - wo-oh! Want all my people to see:
We're
bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!
Play
I on the R&B; want all my people to see:
We
bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music! Uh-uh!
Roots, rock, reggae, ee-mi duba! Dis a reggae music!
Play
I some music: (dis a reggae music!)
Play
I some music: (dis a reggae music!)
---
/Saxophone solo/
(Dis a reggae music!)
(Dis a reggae music!)
---
Play
I on the R&B; I want all my people to see:
(doo-doo-doo-doo!)
We
bubblin' on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!
(doo-doo-doo-doo!)
Play
I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Play
I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
(Dis
a reggae music!)
(Dis
a reggae
music!)
/fadeout/
3. JOHNNY
WAS [Bob Marley (attributed to Rita Marley)]
(Wo-o-o-o! Wo-o-o-o! Wooo!)
Woman
hold her head and cry,
'Cause her son had been shot down in the street and died
From
a stray bullet.
Woman
hold her head and cry;
Explaining to her was a passerby
Who
saw the woman cry (cry)
Wondering how can she work it out,
Now
she knows that the wages of sin is death, yeah!
Gift
of Jah is life. (life)
She
cried: Ah-um, I - I know!
"Johnny was a good man," I - I know! (never did a thing
wrong)
"Johnny was a good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good,
good, good, good man", (Johnny was good man)
she
cried - she crie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ied!
Wo-ooh! Woman hold her head and cry,
As
her son had been shot down in the street and died
Just
because of the system. (system)
Woman
hold her head and cry;
Comforting her I was passing by.
She
complained, then she cry:
Oh-ooh-wo-ah, cry (ah-ah), yeah, I know now (ah-ah),
no I know, I know
now:
(Johnny was a good man)
Said
I know,
mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
(Never did a thing wrong)
Ah!
Ah!
(Johnny was a good man)
Can a
woman tender care, she cried, (Never did a thing
wrong)
Cease
towards the child she bear? (Johnny
was a good man)
Wo-ho-ho-ooh! Woman cry, woman
- (Never did a thing wrong)
She
cried, wo-oh! She cried, yeah! (Johnny was
a good man)
Can a
woman tender care
Cease
towards the child she bear? (Never
did a thing wrong)
Wo-now,
cry!
(Johnny was a good man)
4. CRY
TO ME [Bob Marley]
(Ooh-ooh, hoo-hoo-hoo! Ooh-ooh hoo-hoo!)
Cry
to me, now;
You
gonna cry to me, yeah!
You're gonna walk back through the heartaches;
You're gonna walk back through the pain;
(Shed
those) Shed those lonely teardrops:
The
reaction of your cheating game.
You
got to cry to me, now!
You're gonna cry - cry - cry to me, yeah! Yeah!
Lord
knows how I get from the heartaches;
Lord
that leadeth me, yeah!
And
now I'm by the still water.
You've got to cry to me, yea-ea-eah!
You
gonna cry to me now;
You've got to cry - cry - cry to me, yeah!
You're gonna spend those lonely hours.
You're gonna shed those lonely tears;
(Walk
back) Walk back through the heartaches;
(Walk
back) Walk back through the pain;
(Shed
those) Shed those lonely teardrops:
The
reaction of your cheating game.
You're gonna to cry to me, now!
You
got to cry - cry - cry to me, yeah!
Saying, (don't know) don't know - know how I get from the heartaches;
(Lord
that) Lord that leadeth me, yeah-eah-eah!
(Shed
those lonely teardrops)
Now I'm by the still water;
(The
reaction of your cheating game) Gonna cry to me now, hey!
(Cry)
Cry
(Cry)
Cry
/fadeout/
5. WANT
MORE [Aston Barrett]
Now
you get what you want,
Do
you want more? (want more)
Now
you get what you want,
Do
you want more? (want more)
You
think it's the end,
But
it's just the beginning.
You
think it's the end,
But
it's just the beginning.
Go
down back-biter, down back-bite; down back-biter, down back-bite!
Down
back-biter, down back-biter; down back-biter, down back-bite!
They
stab you in the back
And
they claim that you're not looking.
But
Jah have them in the region
In
the valley of decision.
They
stab you in the back
And
they claim that you're not looking.
But
Jah have them in the region
In
the valley of decision -
In
the valley of decision.
Go
down back-biter, down back-bite, down back-biter, down back-bite!
Now
you get, what you want,
Do
you want more?
Now
you get, what you want,
Do
you want more?
Now
you get, what you want,
Do
you want more?
You
think it's the end:
Do
you want more?
---
/Guitar solo/
---
Go
down back-biter, down back-bite, down back-biter, down back-bite!
Go
down back-biter, down back-bite, down back-biter, down back-bite!
They
stab you in the back
And
they claim that you're not looking.
But
Jah have them in the region
In
the valley of decision.
Now:
what you want?
Want
more? Want more?
Now:
what you get?
Want
more? Want more?
Now -
Now: do you want more?
You
think it's the end: (think it's the end)
Do
you want more? (want more) (you think it's the end)
---
/Instrumental break/
---
(Now:
what you want?
Want more? Want more?
Now: what you get?
Want more? Want more?)
6. CRAZY
BALDHEADS [Bob Marley (attributed to
Rita
Marley); Vincent ford]
Them
crazy, them crazy -
We
gonna chase those crazy
Baldheads out of town;
Chase
those crazy baldheads
Out
of our town.
I'n'I
build a cabin;
I'n'I
plant the corn;
Didn't my people before me
Slave
for this country?
Now
you look me with that scorn,
Then
you eat up all my corn.
We
gonna chase those crazy -
Chase
them crazy -
Chase
those crazy baldheads out of town!
---
/Scat
singing/
---
Build
your penitentiary, we build your schools,
Brainwash education to make us the fools.
Hate
is your reward for our love,
Telling us of your God above.
We
gonna chase those crazy -
Chase
those crazy bunkheads -
Chase
those crazy baldheads out of the yown!
---
/Instrumental break/
---
We
gonna chase those crazy -
Chase
those crazy bunkheads -
Chase
those crazy baldheads out of the yown!
Here
comes the conman
Coming with his con plan.
We
won't take no bribe;
We've
got [to] stay alive.
We
gonna chase those crazy -
Chase
those crazy baldheads -
Chase
those crazy baldheads out of the yown.
7. WHO
THE CAP FIT
[Aston Barrett; Carlton Barrett]
Man
to man is so unjust, children:
Ya
don't know who to trust.
Your
worst enemy could be your best friend,
And
your best friend your worse 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!
Who
the cap fit, let them wear it!
Said
I throw me corn, me no call no fowl;
I
saying, "Cook-cook-cook, cluk-cluk-cluk."
Some
will hate you, pretend they love you now,
Then
behind they try to eliminate you.
But
who Jah bless, no one curse;
Thank
God, we're past the worse.
Hypocrites and parasites
Will
come up and take a bite.
And
if your night should turn to day,
A lot
of people would run away.
And
who the stock fit let them wear it!
Who
the (cap fit) let them (wear it)!
And
then a-gonna throw me corn,
And
then a-gonna call no fowl,
And
then a-gonna "Cook-cook-cook, cluk-cluk-cluk."
---
/Instrumental break/
---
Some
will eat and drink with you,
Then
behind them su-su 'pon you, yeah!
And
if night should turn to day, now,
A lot
of people would run away, yeah!
And
who the cap fit, let them wear it!
Who
the cap fit, let them wear it!
Throw
me corn, me no call no fowl;
A-saying: "Cook-cook-cook, cluk-cluk-cluk."
... : "Cook-cook-cook,
cluk-cluk-cluk."
Throw
me corn (cook-cook-cook);
Me
call no fowl (cluk-cluk-cluk)
/fadeout/
8. NIGHT
SHIFT [Bob Marley]
The
sun shall not smite I by day,
Nor
the moon by night;
And
everything that I do
Shall
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 got the groove:
All
night, it's all right!
All
night, yeah! It's all right!
Working on a forklift
In
the night shift;
Working on a night shift,
With
the forklift,
from A.M. (Did you say that? Why did you say that?)
to P.M. (Working all night!)
Working on a night shift, yeah!
(Did you say that? Why did you say that? Upfull and right!)
Well,
if it's (all night!) - if it's (all right!)
all night (all night!) -
Warehouse (all right!),
You're empty, yeah!
Go
around the corner,
Bring
your goods!
Go
around the other corner,
Bring
your suitcases. (All night!)
By
the sweat of my brow, (All right!)
Eat
your
bread!
(All night!)
By
the sweat of my brow, (All right!)
Eat
your bread!
All
night (all night)! All right (all right)!
All
night (all night)! All right (all right)!
Oh,
yeah! (moon by night)
Why did you say that? Oh, yeah! (Upfull and right!)
Working on a night shift
With
the forklift. (Moon by night!)
Working on the night shift,
Oh,
yeah!
(Upfull and right!) /fadeout/
9. WAR
[Alan Cole; Carlton Barrett]
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!
/fadeout/
10. RAT
RACE [Bob Marley (attributed to Rita Marley)]
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 voilence fill ya city, ye-ah!
Don't
involve Rasta in your say 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! /fadeout/
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