Nigeria is Burnin', The Wailers saw this coming

Not at all where I would expect to get an article inspiration from, but this album released in 1973 couldn't have been more apt for this moment in time #powerofmusic

1 - Get Up, Stand Up

You can fool some people sometimes, But you can't fool all the people all the time, So now we see the light (watch you gon' do), So you better,

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

?(we are sick and tired of your ism-schism (tribalism and ethnicity) game)

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2 - Hallelujah Time

Hear the children crying, But I know they cry not in vain. Now the times are changing, Love has come to bloom again.

But though we bear our burdens now, All afflictions got to end somehow.?From swinging the hammer, pulling the plough, Why won't you let us be, to live in harmony, We like to be free like birds in a tree.

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3 - I Shot The Sheriff

Yeah, Sheriff John Brown always acted mean. For what!? I don't know…

Every time I plant a seed, He said, "Kill it before it grow"

He said " Kill it then, before it grow"

And so, And so, Read it in the news

I shot the sheriff (lord), But I swear it was in self-defense

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4 - Burnin' and Lootin'

How many rivers do we have to cross before we can talk to the boss?

Yea, All that we got, it seems we have lost, We must have really paid the cost

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Weeping and a-wailin' tonight (Who can stop the tears?)

Weeping?and a-wailin' tonight?(we've been suffering these long, long-a years)

Weeping and a-wailin' tonight (will you say cheer?)

Weeping and a-wailin' tonight (but where?)

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5 - Put it On

Feel them spirit, Feel them spirit, Feel them spirit,

Lord, I thank you, Lord, I thank you

Feel alright Now,?Feel alright Now, Feel alright Now

Lord, I thank you, Lord, I thank you

I'm gonna put it on, I'm gonna put it on

6 - Small Axe

Why boast to thy self oh evil man, playing smart, and not being clever. I say you work in inequity to achieve vanity, but the goodness of Jah, endureth forever.

Whosoever diggeth a pit shall fall in it, Whosoever diggeth a pit, shall bury in it

If you are the Big tree, we are the small axe, sharpen to cut you down, ready to cut you down

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7 - Pass It On

Be not selfish in your doings, Pass it on (pass it on, children)

Help your brothers (help them) in their needs, Pass it on

Live for yourself, and you will in vain

Live for others, you will live again,

In the kingdom of Jah, Man shall reign, Pass it on.

What's in the darkness, must be revealed to light

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8 - Duppy Conqueror

Yes, me friend, we de a street again, Yes me friend, me good friend, Them say we're free again, The bars could not hold me , Force could not control me, They tried to keep me down, But Jah put I around, yeah

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 a bull-bucker, Let me tell this, I'm a duppy conqueror, conqueror

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9 - One Foundation

Got to build our love on one foundation x 3

Got to put aside name segregation, got to put aside dem organization, Got to put aside dem denomination, or there won't be a single drop of love

Got to come together because we are birds of a feather;

We have to realize we are one people

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10 - Rastaman Chant

Hear the words of the rastaman say, Babylon the thrown gone down

Said, I heard the words of the Higher man say, Babylon the thrown gone down

I heard the Angel with the 7 seas, Babylon the thrown gone down

One bright morning, when man work is over man will fly away home

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11 - Reincarnated Soul

We are reincarnated souls from that time, Living on earth, heat air and water in this time.?

In the beginning was the word, and the word manifested itself in the flesh, which even became man. All because of the divine plan

Man being lower than the angel, Over all earth was as he was given dominion

He devised his own destruction, but the word lives on and on

He who has eyes to see, Let him look yonder

For it's the age of aquarius, Can't you see its dawning, dawning it's the age of aquarius.

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So keep your love light burning!

Credits: Burnin' Album - The Wailers