Bob Marley's Philosophy #4

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight

We're sick and tired of your ism-schism game To die and go to heaven in Jesus' name We know and understand Almighty God is a living man You can fool some people sometimes But you can't fool all the people all the time

Sheriff John Brown always hated me, For what, I don't know: Every time I plant a seed, He said kill it before it grow

Come on and tell the children the truth

"And verily, verily, I'm saying unto thee, 'I Inite oneself and love Imanity.'" (So Jah Seh)

Man you got to do your best

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

We don't need no trouble; What we need is love. We don't need - we don't need - no more trouble!

You rock so you rock so you dip so you dip so You skank so you skank so and don't be no drag You come so you come so for reggae is another bag.

Now they are sitting on a time bomb Now I know the time has come What goes up must come down What goes around comes around So much trouble in the world

Cold ground was my bed last night And rock was my pillow, too

Oh children weep no more Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree

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 the basic human rights are equally Guaranteed to all, without regard to race Dis a 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

So Jah seh, "Not one of my seeds Shall sit in the sidewalk And beg your bread."

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