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Redemption Song Lyrics: 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 ...
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Redemption Song Lyrics by Bob Marley from the At the Lyceum in London album- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Old pirates, yes, they rob I, Sold I to the merchant ships, Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit.
"Redemption Song" was released as a single in the UK and France in October 1980 and included a full band rendering of the song. This version has since been included as a bonus track on the 2001 reissue of Uprising, as well as on the 2001 compilation One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers. Although in live performances the full band ...
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- "Redemption Song" (Band version), "I Shot the Sheriff" (Live)
- June 1980
- Folk
This song was Bob Marley's last single before his death on the 11th of May 1981. Some lyrics of this song were derived from a speech by Marcus Garvey, the Pan-Africanist orator and a prophet of the Rastafari culture. Freedom and redemption, main themes of the song, reflect Marley's beliefs.
Redemption Song Lyrics by Bob Marley from the 50 Plus Belles Chansons album- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Yeah! Yes, this little song here is called "Old Pirates", you know, "Redemption Song". Old pirates, yes, they rob …