Monday Music: Redemption Song (Bob Marley)

Here is another Playing for Change feature, with artists around the world joining in to perform Bob Marley's "Redemption Song."

Redemption  Song

By Bob Marley

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 hand 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 yourself 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?

Some say it's just a part of it,

We've got to fulfill the book.

Won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever have,

Redemption songs,

Redemption songs,

Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,

None but ourselves can free our mind.

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?

Some say it's just a part of it,

We've got to fulfill the book.

Won't you help to sing,

These songs of freedom?

'Cause all I ever had,

Redemption songs.

All I ever had,

Redemption songs

These songs of freedom

Songs of freedom

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