Don't Worry, Be Happy (Bobby McFerrin)

[wiki]Don’t Worry, Be Happy[/wiki] was penned by [wiki]Bobby McFerrin[/wiki] and released in 1988…

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Stop Making Cheese (Look People)

Andy Flinn co-wrote a few songs on this 4 song EP (12″/45rpm) by the Look People

Tracklist

A1 Stop Making Cheee
A2 Quasi Mowtown
B1 Dancing On Fire
B2 Cookie Man

 

Storming (Chinook)

 

Gruusig Schliimig (Chinook)

Redemption Song (Bob Marley)

The final track on Bob Marley & the Wailers’ ninth album, Uprising,

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Brigitte Kindlimann

Brigitte Kindlimann
Brigitte Kindlimann, Wolville 2018

I remember Brigitte Kindlimann from ’round 2004 or so, at my local in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. She had a rat on her shoulder. It was that same place, a bar called “Beatz”, where we started getting into things artsy and musical last year. A relentlessly creative spirit, mother of two, supporter of the arts and a digital media aficionado. Continue reading Brigitte Kindlimann

No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley)

The song [wiki]No Woman No Cry[/wiki] first became known in 1974 through the studio album [wiki]Natty Dread[/wiki].

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Get Up, Stand Up (Peter Tosh,Bob Marley)

Get Up, Stand Up was written by [wiki]Bob Marley[/wiki] and [wiki]Peter Tosh[/wiki]. It originally appeared on The Wailers’ 1973 album Burnin’.

Andy Flinn sing this song on a Gm vamp….

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!

% Preacherman, dont tell me, %
Heaven is under the earth. %
% I know you dont know   %
What life is really worth.   %   Its not
all that glitters is gold   %
Alf the story has never been told. So
Now you see % the light % eh!
Stand up for %  your rights %. come on!

Chorus

% 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 will look for yours on earth:  And
Now you see %  the light  % You
Stand up for % your rights. %  jah! %

Chorus

We sick an tired of-a your ism-skism game
Dyin n goin to heaven in-a 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 all the people all the time. So
Now we see  %  the light  %  We gonna
Stand up for % our rights!

Chorus

The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff)

This song comes from the 1972 Movie [wiki]The Harder They Come[/wiki]…

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Day-O (The Banana Boat Song, Harry Belafonte)

By [wiki]Harry Belafonte[/wiki], see [wiki]Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)[/wiki]

Verse :E E E E
E E B7 E:
Chorus :E E B7 B7
      (come Mr, Tallyman) E E B7 E:
Bridge :E E B7 A
      (Day-O) E E B7 E:

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