Artist: Bob Marley & The Wailers
Author: Vincent Ford
Label: Island
Year: 1974
Studio version on Natty Dread, freshly written and not at its full potential yet. Bob gave credits away to an old friend from Trenchtown who'd fed him through the early sixties. Another old friend, George Robinson, is even mentioned in the lyrics.
Covers:
Bob Marley & The Wailers [the better known slower live version, a posthumous top 10 UK in '81]
Jimmy Cliff [Marley's favorite Marley cover]
Gilla [as Kein Mann weit und breit]
Gilberto Gil [as Não Chore Mais]
Beenie Man [n°1 Jamaica]
Hisham Fageeh [as No Woman, No Drive]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)