Jah live! children yeah!
Jah-Jah live! children yeah!
Jah live! children yeah!
Jah-Jah live! children yeah!
The truth is an offence but not a sin!
Is he who laugh last, children!
Is he who win
Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird!
One sheep must learn, children!
To respect the sheperd!
Jah live! children yeah!
Jah-Jah live! children yeah!
Jah live! children yeah
Jah-Jah live! children yeah,
Jah!
Fools sayin' in their heart
Rasta your God is dead
But I and I know Jah! Jah!
Dreaded it shall be dreaded and dread
Jah live! children yeah!
Jah-Jah live! children yeah!
Jah live! children yeah
Jah-Jah live! children yeah
Let Jah a-rise!
Now that the enemies are scattered
Let Jah a-rise!
The enemies, the enemies are scattered
Jah live! children yeah!
Jah-Jah live! children yeah
Jah live! children yeah
Jah-Jah live!
Originally Issued os the a-side of single Island (WIP 6265, Side A, Jah Live - Side B, Concrete) released rec. 1975 Jan - Tuff Gong - p. Bob Marley & the Wailers - rec. at Harry J studios & Joe Gibbs Studio, Kingston, Jamaica - Late 1975, Early 1976 - Engineers: Sylvan Morris & Errol Thompson - Mixed at Criteria Studios, Miami by A. Barrett & C. Blackwell in March 1976 - Engineers, Alex Sadkin & Jack Nuber - Copyright: 1978, fifty-six Hope Road Music Ltd, Odnil Music, Ltd, Blue Mountain Music. Ltd (PRS) - All Right for North and South America controlled and administered by Rykomusic, Inc (ASCAP) - All Right for fifty-six Hope Road Music Ltd, Odnil Music, Ltd, Blue Mountain Music. Ltd in the rest of the World controlled and administered by Rykomusic Ltd. (PRS). All Rights Reserved. Lyrics Used by Permission. is bonus track on Bob Marley's 1976 album Rastaman Vibration. The song was released following the death of Haile Selassie whom Rastafarians believe was the third incarnation of their God, pronounced Jah. The song was written as a message to the world that Haile Selassie had not died as detractors of the Rastafarian religion claimed. When the song was released, Selassie was assumed dead but his body would not be recovered until the early 1990s. Rastafarians believed there was no body since Selassie was immortal. Marley was prescient in response to the news that no body had not been found saying, "Yuh cyant kill God".
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