Bob Marley’s song Redemption Song :Songs of Freedom?

Redemption songs

Bob Marley’s Redemption song is one of Bob’s most recognized and best known (lyrical content) songs. Bob Dylan and Bob Marley become unrecognizable as distinct musicians on this track as many compared the Dylan’s acoustic guitar feel with the one strummed on this track.

Marley would deliver a powerful rendition of this song at his last ever live stage performance in the United Kingdom at the Crystal Palace Concert Bowl.

“How long shall they kill our prophets, while we stand aside and look?” is indeed a timeless piece of social commentary.

The black power movement in the United States of America had seen many leaders of the struggle against oppression such as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers cut down by the bullet. Even here in the Caribbean people such as Walter Rodney the black Guyanese historian suffering the same fate from the explosion of a walkie talkie bomb in his possession. Such was the time, a revolutionary period.

Many black leaders are still dying although not a physical death but a mental one that is just as dangerous while imperial forces seek to re colonize places such as Africa.

This legend of a musician was at this coming to the end of his physical journey but starting a fire that would last way into the twentieth century and beyond. Without much in depth analysis it is essential a straight forward track delivering a wholesome picture of the philosophy of an artist that had come full circle in both his life and career.

Bob Marley’s song Redemption Song Sound Track

Click on the links below for more Bob Marley's song lyrics



Bob Marley’s song Ambush In The Night

Bob Marley’s song Bad Card

Bob Marley’s song Buffalo Soldier

Bob Marley’s song Concrete Jungle

Bob Marley’s song Exodus

Bob Marley’s song Get Up Stand Up

Bob Marley’s song I Shot The Sheriff

Bob Marley’s song Jah Live

Bob Marley’s song No Woman No Cry

Bob Marley’s song One Love

Bob Marley’s song Rasta Man Chant

Bob Marley’s song Rat Race

Bob Marley’s song Stir It Up

Bob Marley’s song Who The Cap Fit

Bob Marley’s song Zimbabwe

Bob Marley’s song Africa Unite

Bob Marley’s song Chant Down Babylon


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