Robert Nesta Marley better known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, guitarist and songwriter.

Song Lyrics

• You can fool some people sometimes but you can't fool all the people all the time
  • Get up stand up

• Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgement, whoa oh oh
  • Judge Not (1961)

• One love, one heart, let's get together and feel alright.
  • One Love (cowritten with Curtis Mayfield), from the album Exodus, originally recorded on The Wailing Wailers (1965)

• Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.
  • I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin' (1973)

• A hungry mob is an angry mob.
  • Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)

• Truth is the light
  So you never give up the fight.
  • Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)

• Don't worry about a thing, 'cos every little thing is gonna be alright.
  • Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)

• Your life is worth much more than gold.
  • Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)

• Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God i gotta get a lift
  • Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978)

• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
  Have no fear for atomic energy, 'cause none of them can stop the time.
  • Redemption Song, from the album Uprising (1979)

• Don't gain the world and lose your soul
  Wisdom is better than silver and gold
  • Zion Train

• They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!
  • Could You Be Loved, from the album Uprising (1979)

Disputed

Some famous songs were sung by Marley, but writing credits were actually given to his close friend Vincent Ford. Vincent Ford did not write these lyrics, Bob did. Bob only gave him writing credits so he could use the royalty money to help pay for his Trenchtown soup kitchen.

• Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
  In this bright future you can't forget your past
  So dry your tears I say
  No woman, no cry
  No woman, no cry
  Little darlin' don't shed no tears
  No woman, no cry
  • No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)

• Ev'rything's gonna be alright
  So, no woman, no cry.
  • No Woman, No Cry

• Say you just can't live that negative way
  You know what I mean
  Make way for the positive day
  Cause it's a new day.
  • Positive Vibration, from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)

Attributed

• Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
  • Quoted in: Rolling Stone's "The Immortals", Bob Marley's article