Bob Marley & Emancipation

Acustic version of Bob Marley’s legendary Redemption Song, from the album Uprising (1979), written when he already knew he had a fatal cancer.

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the ‘and of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom? –
‘Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
‘Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfil de book.

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Alessio Fratticcioli

Alessio è il fondatore e amministratore di Asiablog.it (anche su Facebook, Twitter e Google+). Vive in Asia dal 2006. Sta svolgendo un dottorato di ricerca in comunicazione politica presso la Monash University. Per saperne di più su questo buffo personaggio, la sua lunga e noiosa biografia si trova qui.