Talkin' about Legalize It
The time has just come
Don't feel no way
An don't feel like
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This 1914 business going work forever
In Ethiopia
Where I originated
When culture originated
Herb is a part of my culture
Smokin' herb is a Sacrament
Not a sacrilege
Not smokin' herb
Is violating my own constitutional rights
An to be humiliated, aggravated, an brutalized for the Smoke of herb
Is totally degragating
In this 20th century
An I you see standin' here have all right to talk
An you know why I can talk
Because I suffered the tribulation
An accusation
For the smoke of herb
But the sun shall not smite I by day
Nor the moon by night
Nor the pestilence that lurks in dark places
Nor destruction that wasteth at noon day
For I the Light is in the laws of JAH RASTAFARI
Who created Zion on earth ~ Peter Tosh
tosh1982-11-XX
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Years we've been livin' this illusion of
Jesus die an go to heaven
That don't exist
Places in Afrika
If you tell people about that they laugh at you
Only in the Western hemisphere people commit suicide
An genocide
An homocide
An all kinda cide I don't know who decide what's left
InI don't suffer with that bumbaclaat
For example now
You hear I say bumbaclaat
With no respector of a persons
I bet you
I bet you
Our society is offended by me sayin' bumbaclaat
I hear
An American singer come an he say
Hey that f##ckin' sh#t I don't take man
An everybody laugh
Round of applause for that
Seen
An when I say bumbaclaat
Everybody screw
Why
One thing I learn
An I was taught
In the beginning was the WORD
An the WORD was with JAH
InI
In this dispensation of time
Is no illusion
We have not just evolved
In the 17th, 18th, 19th, or 20th century
InI was from the beginning
An that must be respected here first
An there are so many things to say for example now
I am the black sheep of the fold
I have been branded, accused, stand accused daily
Humiliated, executed
Betrayed, condemned
Go to jail for what
Smokin' herb
So they say
But is not for smokin' herb
Is because they are jealous of the fact
That I have the personal link with the Almighty
JAH RASTAFARI
An don't feel no way
I am not a drug head
Cause I notice my getting very junkie
Soon an very soon
This place will look like 42nd Street
Where zombies hang out
An if it a come to be same way
Like forget say
JAH
Who make the sun shine still live
Men come tellin' about them come crucify HIM
An they keep on humilating the truth
But this time the truth shall swim like waters cover the sea
An only righteousness can exalt a nation
An don't care what you people say
Lawmakers are what you want to say
You all better respect the CREATOR who is JAH
An not only to respect HIM
But to respect the followers of HIM
I know there are many imposters
Look like I
Feel the I
Walk like I
Talk like I
An read Bible 24 hours a day
An him quote dere scripture
But learned there say
He is the Agent of Lucifer
Wolves in sheeps clothing
Beware of thy self.
These things cause I
Dignity an integrity
To be abused by men
An make InI look like criminal
In the presence of men
An if I should begin to read
All the respects that I get in the United States of America
For example
In NYC
I would not be humiliated for a spliff
No way
By no police
An that for one bloodclaat reason why
I would stay to NYC for a time
Cause I have the privilege to smoke herb with respect
An I want to learn this
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It is I am the Rastamon who been humiliated
For the use of herb
For these ages
Once upon a time when I first came to this planet earth
I was told an taught an brainwashed
That herb
Otherwise known as ganja
Is the most dangerous drugs
An poison
An I was taught to be afraid of it
An its a good thing
That I am in permanent link with JAH
I say JAH
I don't take influences from men
It is thy duty to show I what is right
An what is wrong
tosh1982-11-xx
this is a powerful Livatribe of Peter Tosh..is over 17 minutes long
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here is the last part of Peter Tosh Livatribe..there are a few corrections in the first two portions that i posted that need to be made
PETER TOSH LIVATRIBE
(transposed by Tammy Beveridge)
tosh1982-11-XX
All this talkin' a bumbaclaat izzz
An don't take this thing here for joke
An go on like I'm on coke
Or I would just eat a piece a pork
Remember that
Cause you know what I mean
The sheep, all sheep of my fold
Has scattered themself
An everone is suffering from this great thing called
EGO
Everybody is busy involving himself
The respect of humanity has been lost
Seen
No man respect his fellowman again
Everyman love a packet big bumba
Money in their back pocket
Yezzzz
Everyman loves material things more than his brother
But learn this
You see if you don't learn to be your brother's keeper
Tell them my brother
They have this bumbaclaat way to
An is no jokes these things
When I talk you know men are being offended
Seen
What if I tell you I am in
I have the permanent link with JAH
The man who make that sunball shine
These things don't happen in 400 years
Sun rise with I on stage
An I don't want you to take it for a lie thing
Long time I don't perform here
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An here am I
Performing on stage
Approximately 7 o'clock in the mornin'
Sun rise to greet I
An not only I
But sun rise to greet everyone who have
The heart to stay till this morning
Standin' on your feet from last night
What else in the world
Could have created
An incident like this one
Only reggae music
The music that is not respected in its own country
An I don't want to go on again like this is a joke business
When I talk heart
Hearts shook
Hearts shook up
An curl up
Cause you all support the bull****
An want it to look like reggae music
Is an insignificant music
A music that has no revelance
Just the music of a cult
This is no music of no cult
Seen
This is a music of anciency
185 billion an years an more
From whence I cometh
I did not come the other day
I reincarnated billions of times
An I am still here
Representing what
What is to be represented in the right nature and admonition
Don't feel no way
Well from this moment on
As this commemoration is takin place on behalf of the dead
Bob Marley
Which we do appreciated his work
Which he had performed
Upon earth
But now that his time has ended
There is time for the living
To know what to do
The dead has played its part
Amen. So let it be
May his soul rest in peace
So they say
This commemoration
Is a commemoration of Bob Marley
Who only used to represent reggae music
An I want you to learn that
Reggae music thast what Bob Marley stand for
In the world an Jamaica
An that what his name was exalted for
Reggae music
Well if this building here or this place there
Is a commemoration
We want to begin to hear reggae music on the radio 24 hours a day
I tired of funky
An I don't want it to be hypocritically looked over
An pretend as if we are takin care of the business
And as I turn my back say Cha
No botha that
We want to hear enough reggae music in Jamaican radio
Cause when I go to America or Ascadia or which one name
We don't hear reggae music once a month
And from my radio station
Me listenin' to the American chart
What kind of bumbaclaat thing that
I am tired of that
Reggae music must be respected
Or we the singers an players of reggae music
Who brought this momentum to Jamaica
Know
Because if it wasn't for reggae music
Now all these people would not be standin here
An that must be respected
If it wasn't for reggae music
Mr. Feline and his company wouldn't make all their millions of dollars an go back to America
So I don't want to take this thing here for a joke thing business
We want to hear reggae music
All of us who make reggae music
Stand accused
Abused
An condemned
An disrespected
Seen
An the next thing I get in to
You see if I drive on the road
As a highly dignified
Honorary
Respected
Citizen
Of this country
Respective of my external appearance
Everytime I drive 10 yards
Babylon stop you
Bwai bwai come on come on
Them kind of business I'm tired of
A guy in this 21st century
Say gonna lock I up for a spliff
I walk the streets of America
An a police there tell me that
Cause he knows he's violationg my constitutional rights
An I don't want them to believe that InI don't here don't know that we have a constitutional rights
Not only constitutional rights that was written by men
But a divine rights
That was laid down by the hands of the Almighty
JAH RASTAFARI
An it must be respected
Learn that
Once upon a time
It was about 1/2 those Rasta in Jamaica
An them have to hide
Better stay in hills an don't show your face
What you doing there bwai
Right now
Izzz more than 144,000 Saints of the Most High
Sealed
Can you imagine that
After all these humiliations
An aggravations
I've been condemned to hell
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An here am I still standin' in the name of JAH
Most people don't want to hear I talk because lightening would be a show to the heavens an jump out a dem shoes
You see
But I love to talk
Even though I am music
You hear how my music sound
Many of you underestimated my qualities an potential of my music
An also underestimated my ability
Don't play no hypocrite
I know that bumbaclaat
But I am not here to exalt myself
I am here to exalt the name of JAH RASTAFARI
An the music that JAH has given to I
That shall take
Cover the whole world
The whole world shall be covered with reggae music
An anywhere I play reggae music like you hear it now
It creates a thing called Reggaemylytis
Everybody have it
From your toe i will be going into it
But cool runnings you have Reggaemylytis
I don't want to talk to long cause
Right now I have Reggaemylytis in my toe
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np Was..i love transposing interviews and lyrics and this one was great to do
what makes this interesting is Peter Tosh gives Bob his Eulogy
Well from this moment on
As this commemoration is takin place on behalf of the dead
Bob Marley
Which we do appreciated his work
Which he had performed
Upon earth
But now that his time has ended
There is time for the living
To know what to do
The dead has played its part
Amen. So let it be
May his soul rest in peace
So they say
This commemoration
Is a commemoration of Bob Marley
Who only used to represent reggae music
An I want you to learn that
Reggae music thats what Bob Marley stand for
In the world an Jamaica
An that what his name was exalted for
Reggae music
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