"Trenchtown Rock" lyrics
"Trenchtown Rock"
One good thing about music
When it hits you (You feel no pain)
Whoa, whoa I say one good thing about music
When it hits you (You feel no pain)
Hit me with music, hit me with music, now
This is
(Trench Town rock) Don't watch that
(Trench Town rock) Big fish or sprat, now
(Trench Town rock) You reap what you sow
(Trench Town rock) And only Jah Jah know
(Trench town rock) I'll never turn my back
(Trench town rock) I'll give the slum a try
(Trench town rock) I'll never let the children cry
(Trench Town rock) 'Cause you got to tell Jah Jah why
(Grooving) It's Kingston 12
(Grooving) It's Kingston 12
(Grooving) It's Kingston 12, now
(Grooving) It's Kingston 12
No want you fi galang so, oh no!
(No want you fi galang so) Skabadip, skaba
(You want come cold I up) Skaba diba dip, skaba doop
(But you can't come cold I up) Skaba doop
Whoa, whoa, I'm a-grooving
(Grooving) And the world knows by now
Now now now, now now now now, you're
Oh now, I said, you feel no pain, now
One good thing about music
When it hits you (You feel no pain)
Feel no pain
Hit me with music now, oh now
Hit me with music now
Hit me with music, harder
Brutalize me (Hit me with music)
This is!
(Trench Town rock) I say don't watch that
(Trench Town rock) If you are big fish or sprat
(Trench Town rock) You reap what you sow
(Trench Town rock) Ay, everyone know now
(Trench town rock) Don't turn your back
(Trench town rock) I say give the slum a try
(Trench town rock) Never let the children cry
(Trench Town rock) Oh you got to tell Jah Jah why
(Grooving) It's Kingston 12
(Grooving) It's Kingston 12
(Grooving) I said t's Kingston 12, now
(Grooving) Whoa, whoa, whoa, it's Kingston 12
(No want you fi galang so) Didn't I told you that
(No want you fi galang so) We should lead with love
(You want come cold I up) And I don't do that man, nothing
(But you can't come cold I up) And look there now!
(Grooving) And then it's Kingston 12, uh!
Good God! Looky here now (You feel no pain)
Uh! Hit me with music
Thanks to A. R. Lesperance for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Bob Marley
- AZLyrics
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- Bob Marley Lyrics
compilation:
"Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On" (1995)
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