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Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war
That until there are no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the color of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the color of his eyes
Me say war
That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
A dis a war
That until that day
The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be pursued, but never attained
Now everywhere is war, war
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
That hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique
South Africa, sub-human bondage
Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war, me say war
War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of war
And until that day, the African continent
Will not know peace, we Africans will fight
We find it necessary and we know we shall win
As we are confident in the victory
Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
I'm sure everyone already knows this but, just in case; This song is Bob brilliantly putting music to a speech by Haile Selassie (the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974). It's basically a portion of the speech, word for word, with musical accompaniment. Impossibly brilliant. Bob was on a whole different level.
I think I actually chuckled out loud reading the banter down below in the comments on this song. I had a quick flash to my favorite line in the classic film Dr. Strangelove: "Gentleman, you can't fight in here. This is the WAR room!"
I'm at a 9 on this track, the song is a 7 + 2 for the message. PEACE and Long Live RP!
Lte's just make it a ten.
I think I actually chuckled out loud reading the banter down below in the comments on this song. I had a quick flash to my favorite line in the classic film Dr. Strangelove: "Gentleman, you can't fight in here. This is the WAR room!"
I'm at a 9 on this track, the song is a 7 + 2 for the message. PEACE and Long Live RP!
To me: 8 - Most Excellent but sadly not more
sdn wrote : "War is bad, mmmmmmkay?"
If you don't learn from history your condemned to repeat it.
The USA is the most warring country in the world —ever wonder why, or should we just 'go with the flow doomed to endless repetition?'
Do you really believe you have to support our warring to be a patriot ? Only the dead die young.
There is nothing special about the USA, historically all powerful countries/empires have waged many wars. Currently the USA is the most powerful country and therefore it wages most wars, there is nothing intrinsically different or especially "evil" about the USA.
My obfuscation, really? I made a correction, that is a clarification, just the opposite of an obfuscation. And this correction of your mistake justifies a rant? Geez. Looks like you may be so fond of moral outrage that you see opportunities for such where none exists.
midreaming wrote:
Nazi's weren't really in Ethiopia during WW2
really these boards are better when they're about the music. But Ethiopia was a tragedy , and your obfuscation shouldn't stand. First - I may have confused the point. It wasn't Germany specifically, it was an ally - Italy. Instead of Nazis I should have written "Facists". Almost the same thing. Clearly the same intentions.
On October 3, 1935, Italy attacked Ethiopia without a declaration of war. Four days later, the League of Nations declared Italy an aggressor, but as usual, took no action against the country. Italian troops held back until December of that year, when a border incident in the city of Wal Wal gave Italy its much needed excuse to attack Ethiopia. (1)
The remnants of the Italian forces in the AOI surrendered after the Battle of Gondar in November 1941, except for groups that fought the Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia against the British until the Armistice of Cassibile (3 September 1943) ended hostilities between Italy and the Allies. (2)
as regards the speech and the song, both are documented facts.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_II)
(2)https://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/03/baker-mc-03/ethiopia.htm
Nazi's weren't really in Ethiopia during WW2
really these boards are better when they're about the music. But Ethiopia was a tragedy , and your obfuscation shouldn't stand. First - I may have confused the point. It wasn't Germany specifically, it was an ally - Italy. Instead of Nazis I should have written "Facists". Almost the same thing. Clearly the same intentions.
On October 3, 1935, Italy attacked Ethiopia without a declaration of war. Four days later, the League of Nations declared Italy an aggressor, but as usual, took no action against the country. Italian troops held back until December of that year, when a border incident in the city of Wal Wal gave Italy its much needed excuse to attack Ethiopia. (1)
The remnants of the Italian forces in the AOI surrendered after the Battle of Gondar in November 1941, except for groups that fought the Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia against the British until the Armistice of Cassibile (3 September 1943) ended hostilities between Italy and the Allies. (2)
as regards the speech and the song, both are documented facts.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_II)
(2)https://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/03/baker-mc-03/ethiopia.htm
Nazi's weren't really in Ethiopia during WW2
midreaming wrote:
how bout the fact that H.S is beilieved to be the direct decendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheeba, ancient rulers from the tenth century BC and that his speech was delivered to the General Assembly of the UN asking for help to rebuild his country (Ethiopia) after Nazi's detroyed it in WWII. 'Song still too simple for you?
Doesn't that make it even more simplistic?
I think you kind of ruined the song for me.
I'll just go listen to Haile Selassie speeches from now on...
how bout the fact that H.S is beilieved to be the direct decendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheeba, ancient rulers from the tenth century BC and that his speech was delivered to the General Assembly of the UN asking for help to rebuild his country (Ethiopia) after Nazi's detroyed it in WWII. 'Song still too simple for you?
Simplistic? Bob took a speech from Haile Selassie. Hardly changed a single word, put music to it, and sang it. It's one of the most impressive songs i know of.
Doesn't that make it even more simplistic?
I think you kind of ruined the song for me.
I'll just go listen to Haile Selassie speeches from now on...
Simplistic? Bob took a speech from Haile Selassie. Hardly changed a single word, put music to it, and sang it. It's one of the most impressive songs i know of.
cool factoid. tangentially connected.. the carved rock churches of ethiopia's orthodox christians are worth checking out.
Simplistic? Bob took a speech from Haile Selassie. Hardly changed a single word, put music to it, and sang it. It's one of the most impressive songs i know of.
You know what Texans are called...... TexAsholes; and this comment just solidifies that sentiment!
Geez, guy makes a comment about the music and you come back with a personal attack. What is that all about!
You know what Texans are called...... TexAsholes; and this comment just solidifies that sentiment!
Everybody in my church loves this song...
Have you actually read the Old Testament? Just curious. Much of it is devoted to the conquest of Canaan. The character YHWH (aka God) commands the wholesale slaughter of the indigenous inhabitants of Canaan in no uncertain terms. This injunction is repeated over and over and over again, and carried out to a tee. Failure to comply to this commandment is punishable by death. Read it if you don't believe me. Today, in the 2012th year of our Lord, we have a term for this. That term is genocide.
Know your history ... or be condemned to repeat it again ...
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7th portrait of this series. Graphic tablet in photoshop. Custom brush used, you can find it linked to one of the portraits of this series.
" "War" is a song recorded and made popular by Bob Marley. It first appeared on Bob Marley and the Wailers' 1976 Island Records album, Rastaman Vibration, Marley's only album to chart in the USA, at #10. The lyrics are almost literally derived from a speech made by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I before the United Nations General Assembly in 1963.
The song is credited to Alan Cole and late Wailers percussionist Carlton "Carly" Barrett as song writers, and not to Bob Marley. However, based on two simple guitar chords, the semi-improvised, spirited melody put to Selassie's words is unmistakably Marley's. Barrett's brother and collaborator, Wailer musician Aston "Family Man" Barrett (who created the bass line, key to the song's efficiency) has since brought law suits against the Marley estate for unpaid royalties and credit for songs such as 'War' that were either written by others and not by Bob Marley, or in collaboration with Marley. " Wikipedia
"What life has taught me
I would like to share with
Those who want to learn...
Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war
That until there are no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war
That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Dis a war
That until that day
The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be persued, but never attained
Now everywhere is war, war
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,
South Africa sub-human bondage
Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war, me say war
War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of war
And until that day, the African continent
Will not know peace, we Africans will fight
We find it necessary and we know we shall win
As we are confident in the victory
Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil "
** 10 **
Luv me some Marley. The music and the message.
andrewimft wrote:
Clearly you know nothing about Marley, his career, beliefs or philosophy.
The lyrics are very much intended as an anti-war song, "derived from a speech made by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I before the United Nations General Assembly in 1963... Haile Selassie 1 gave the speech calling for world peace at the 1963 U.N. Conference in New York City. The song uses part of Selassie's speech that calls for equality among all without regard to race, class, or nationality in his hymnal cry for peace... It also asserts, quoting Selassie directly, that until the day of an equal society, there will be war... In the original speech, Selassie urged U.N. officials and country representatives, to disarm their nuclear weapons and to end international exploitation (specifically with Africa). The song honors Haile Selassie I while calling for action against racial inequality and international injustice."
The song quotes much of Selassie's speech (most of the info I'm referencing is at the link here, you can read the rest of his speech that is in the song there). Regarding this part of the speech, "We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil... Selassie reminded his listeners that these are only words; their value depends wholly on our will to observe and honour them and give them content and meaning." That's an anti war song citing prophecy about wars and rumors of war, and Selassie's anti war speech.
Junior Marvin, former Wailers guitarist in an interview at reggae-vibes.com, also verifies the song's anti war meaning. He says this about the meaning of the song War: "Like 'War,' America's at war," points out Marvin. Marley borrowed the lyrics to 'War' from a speech Haile Selassie I (aka Ras Tafari) gave to the United Nations.
"I think the time has come for a big peace movement, which is what Bob started then, 'movement of Jah people,' the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica," says Marvin. "9/11 was a wake up call for everyone on the planet and now we've gotta learn from that."
"Cultures should work together and share knowledge," says Marvin, "rather than 'tearing each other's throats out.'"
"In the long run, it's gonna be beneficial to everyone to just chill out," he adds.
That's just the tip of the overwhelming evidence about Marley and his career, beliefs and message that have nothing to do with your bizarre interpretation. Bob Marley's entire career was opposed to the very ideas you spout about using religion to justify war, the record is long and available to examine.
Your post is inaccurate and full of some weird right wing Christianist pro war agenda. You're free to make that interpretation of the song for your own personal meaning, but don't go around ascribing it to Marley. Your kind of agenda laden ignorance and dishonest, aggressive revisionist history just leaves me without words to describe how bizarre and annoying it is.
Here here Andrew! Props, MayBaby!
Luv me some Marley. The music and the message.
andrewimft wrote:
Clearly you know nothing about Marley, his career, beliefs or philosophy.
The lyrics are very much intended as an anti-war song, "derived from a speech made by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I before the United Nations General Assembly in 1963... Haile Selassie 1 gave the speech calling for world peace at the 1963 U.N. Conference in New York City. The song uses part of Selassie's speech that calls for equality among all without regard to race, class, or nationality in his hymnal cry for peace... It also asserts, quoting Selassie directly, that until the day of an equal society, there will be war... In the original speech, Selassie urged U.N. officials and country representatives, to disarm their nuclear weapons and to end international exploitation (specifically with Africa). The song honors Haile Selassie I while calling for action against racial inequality and international injustice."
The song quotes much of Selassie's speech (most of the info I'm referencing is at the link here, you can read the rest of his speech that is in the song there). Regarding this part of the speech, "We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil... Selassie reminded his listeners that these are only words; their value depends wholly on our will to observe and honour them and give them content and meaning." That's an anti war song citing prophecy about wars and rumors of war, and Selassie's anti war speech.
Junior Marvin, former Wailers guitarist in an interview at reggae-vibes.com, also verifies the song's anti war meaning. He says this about the meaning of the song War: "Like 'War,' America's at war," points out Marvin. Marley borrowed the lyrics to 'War' from a speech Haile Selassie I (aka Ras Tafari) gave to the United Nations.
"I think the time has come for a big peace movement, which is what Bob started then, 'movement of Jah people,' the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica," says Marvin. "9/11 was a wake up call for everyone on the planet and now we've gotta learn from that."
"Cultures should work together and share knowledge," says Marvin, "rather than 'tearing each other's throats out.'"
"In the long run, it's gonna be beneficial to everyone to just chill out," he adds.
That's just the tip of the overwhelming evidence about Marley and his career, beliefs and message that have nothing to do with your bizarre interpretation. Bob Marley's entire career was opposed to the very ideas you spout about using religion to justify war, the record is long and available to examine.
Your post is inaccurate and full of some weird right wing Christianist pro war agenda. You're free to make that interpretation of the song for your own personal meaning, but don't go around ascribing it to Marley. Your kind of agenda laden ignorance and dishonest, aggressive revisionist history just leaves me without words to describe how bizarre and annoying it is.
we are lions off to decapitate our enemies and root out their families
Kind of killed the mood she said.
sdn wrote : "War is bad, mmmmmmkay?"
If you don't learn from history your condemned to repeat it.
The USA is the most warring country in the world —ever wonder why, or should we just 'go with the flow doomed to endless repetition?'
Do you really believe you have to support our warring to be a patriot ? Only the dead die young.
The 5th commandment for the Roman Catholic religion states; Thou shalt not kill
The 5th commandment for the Lutheran religion states; Thou shalt not murder
The 6th commandment for Jewish, Orthodox, and Anglican, Reformed, and other Christian religions states; Thou shalt not murder
There is no exceptions stated.
and John Prine wrote : "Jesus don't like killin' no matter what the reason's for"
nuff said
The people they killed would beg to differ, they were murdered for not being a Christian with a sword held to their heads, and that's murder. The children's crusade was another phenomenon long recognized by historians as a low point in all of human history, where little children were taken from their parents' homes and forced into that Crusader army. Just because some religious guy wearing a funny hat and robes says go and kill doesn't make it holy or not murder. Did you flunk history in elementary school?
Clearly you know nothing about Marley, his career, beliefs or philosophy.
The lyrics are very much intended as an anti-war song, "derived from a speech made by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I before the United Nations General Assembly in 1963... Haile Selassie 1 gave the speech calling for world peace at the 1963 U.N. Conference in New York City. The song uses part of Selassie's speech that calls for equality among all without regard to race, class, or nationality in his hymnal cry for peace... It also asserts, quoting Selassie directly, that until the day of an equal society, there will be war... In the original speech, Selassie urged U.N. officials and country representatives, to disarm their nuclear weapons and to end international exploitation (specifically with Africa). The song honors Haile Selassie I while calling for action against racial inequality and international injustice."
The song quotes much of Selassie's speech (most of the info I'm referencing is at the link here, you can read the rest of his speech that is in the song there). Regarding this part of the speech, "We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil... Selassie reminded his listeners that these are only words; their value depends wholly on our will to observe and honour them and give them content and meaning." That's an anti war song citing prophecy about wars and rumors of war, and Selassie's anti war speech.
Junior Marvin, former Wailers guitarist in an interview at reggae-vibes.com, also verifies the song's anti war meaning. He says this about the meaning of the song War: "Like 'War,' America's at war," points out Marvin. Marley borrowed the lyrics to 'War' from a speech Haile Selassie I (aka Ras Tafari) gave to the United Nations.
"I think the time has come for a big peace movement, which is what Bob started then, 'movement of Jah people,' the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica," says Marvin. "9/11 was a wake up call for everyone on the planet and now we've gotta learn from that."
"Cultures should work together and share knowledge," says Marvin, "rather than 'tearing each other's throats out.'"
"In the long run, it's gonna be beneficial to everyone to just chill out," he adds.
That's just the tip of the overwhelming evidence about Marley and his career, beliefs and message that have nothing to do with your bizarre interpretation. Bob Marley's entire career was opposed to the very ideas you spout about using religion to justify war, the record is long and available to examine.
Your post is inaccurate and full of some weird right wing Christianist pro war agenda. You're free to make that interpretation of the song for your own personal meaning, but don't go around ascribing it to Marley. Your kind of agenda laden ignorance and dishonest, aggressive revisionist history just leaves me without words to describe how bizarre and annoying it is.
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