Monday, February 6, 2012

Celebrating Bob Marley's Birthday

Get Up Stand Up

Most people think great God will come from the sky

Take away everything and make everybody feel high

But if you know what life is worth

You would look for yours on earth

And now you see the light You stand up for your right

….

We’re sick and tired of your ism schism game

Die and go to heaven in 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 some people all the time

So now we see the light

(What you gonna do?)

We gonna stand up for our right.

Jah, Jah, Jah


Get up Stand up, co-written with Peter Tosh, demonstrates an anti-imperialist, strident and militant tone, that acts as the rallying cry for oppressed people to fight back and in the spirit of Marcus Garvey’s self-reliance philosophy do something about their own situation.

Celebrate the spirit of Bob Marley and his philosophy with this video:


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