Bob Marley: KAYA(a very good song form the lp whit the same name)
Wake up and turn I loose,
Wake up and turn and loose
for the rain is falling
Got to have kaya now,got to have kaya now
got to have kaya now, for the rain is falling
I fell so high, I even touch the sky
above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbour-hood
so here I come again
Igot to have kaya now x3
for the rain is falling
I fell so high, I even touch the sky
above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbour-hood
so here I come again
Igot to have kaya now x3
for the rain is falling
Get up and turn i loose
wake up and turn and loose
wake up and turn and loose, for the rain is falling
well kayaman, kaya, kaya
I just love reggae musik. It makes you fell high and happy!!!!!
From: plm@yankee.iscp.bellcore.com (Paul Mowatt)
This Bob Marley interview was recorded in 1973 in Jamaica. The interviewer is Neville Willoughby. Provided w/o permission from side 2 of the "Interviews" album. The transcription is not word for word.
Neville: But
listen, you know a lot of people have a feeling that, a lot of guys who
claim to be Rastas, are really, as one song says rascals.
Bob: Many
shall be called, but only a few chosen. And there shall be sheep and wolf
in sheep clothing! But I&I couldn't watch that, this day. Because I&I
have to live Rasta and know Rasta. I noh come fi judge a man. Jah seh leave
all judgemant onto him. Soh all people who see a man out deh and seh `how
him a gwaan like seh him seh him a rasta". Who is dem fi seh how him
a gwaan so. When God seh leave all judgemant onto him.
Neville:
But what you think about all this crime and violence going on though, as
a Rasta?
Bob: Ha
Ha. Is laws cause crime and violence. Well I noh really... Yuh know what
ah mean. Earth a come, earth a forward to how creation was an how earth
fi rest. Is a mind ting. Now all the laws that we abide by and blaah-blaah-boom-boom-boom,
what cause wi fi suffer. As any man can know that. Them law deh noh must
be a must.
Neville:
Which laws? You speaking of any laws in particular?
Bob: Every
law! The only law which is law is the law of life. The law how fi live.
Now dig dis. A man build him city and him seh him want these people fi
run it, and him want these people to live yah soh. Now me don't waan get
involved talking like me is a politician. Mi jus' waan talk 'bout righteousness.
Like seh well then, Jah a earth rightful ruler and him noh run no wire
fence.
Neville:
Am I right in assuming that Rastas don't believe in violence, at all?
Bob: Rasta
don't believe in violence man! Rasta don't believe, Rasta know. Yuh see,
is when yuh believe, is that mash yuh up. Yuh must know what yuh know.
Earth is earth, within 2000 years, now is 1973. Like I seh again. I naah
do dis ting fi no money business. Dis ting, is Jah come inna I heart and
mek it move, that I fi goh inna England goh seh these things again. Or
say these things in America, or Australia. I man haffi goh, because I personnally
is a servant of H.I.M. Not doing noh hard work, just doing wah Jah seh
I fi do. And thru him gi I the power fi play music and him gi I the Inspiration
fi seh these things, and mek the people, who him work through see these
things. Because I know seh Jah inna every life. Now some people ah devil
and some people ah angel. Dig! Jah seh leave all judgemant onto him. Dig!
Soh yuh know, is certain, is plenty tings, ah man haffi keep to himself
and try source it out fi himself. Because yuh can seh tings. At the time
yuh say it, it noh seh right, and maybe not. Yuh know wah ah mean. Because
these things are things Jah teach yuh everyday, and sometime yuh haffi
learn. Yuh haffi know wah him seh. Yuh haffi source it out.
Neville:
Now you know, you have your religious faith, right. You have your convictions.
Do you get annoyed by people who don't understand what you are talking
about? Do you get annoyed.
Bob: I
am sorry for the people who don't understand what we talk about. Because
they bare great tribulations in times when they don't have to. Yuh see,
I personally know my heart can be hard as a stone, and yet soft as water.
Then again... still sorry fi the people who don't know H.I.M. Because is
like my mother used to tell mi. People head ah goh chop off and dem waan
dead and caan dead. Inna the judgement. And these days yah ah the judgement
days. Yuh know, only the fittest of the fittest shall survive. Like wah
Marcus Garvey seh. Ah jus' so it goh.
Neville:
Tell me now. As a Rasta, what is your feeling about being Jamaican?
Bob: Being
Jamaican?
Neville:
Yeah!
Bob: Being
Jamaican? Hear how it goh now Neville. Being Jamaican? I don't see I self
as being Jamaican. I see I self as a Rasta being Rasta! Soh, Jamaica is
Jamaica. Africa is Afirca. I man a Rasta!
Neville:
Aah ha. You don't have any boundaries.
Bob: My
boundaries. Now, well I must pick a place up on earth where I know I must
live. And I know I wanna live near my father and my father live in Ethiopia.
So I must live where my father is.
Neville:
Literally? In other words, literally you hope to live in Ethiopia some
day.
Bob: I
don't hope. We`r going. Near, near! Dis is 1973, going near to 74 now.
Jah seh, before one of my word pass away, heaven and earth crash. Dig!
And him seh, him gone fi prepare a place, where he is I&I shall be
there also!
Neville:
Bob, listen, everyday nowadays you read about famine in Ethiopia. What
you say to that now?
Bob: Great!
I seh great. If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh
Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth. If yuh deh ah Ethiopia inna
him palace and yuh don't know him is the almighty, yuh suffer. God noh
partial I. Now, I could ah starve and suffer too, but I know Jah.
Neville:
Now it's Bob Marley and the Wailers. You write such a lot of material for
the group. You have such a lot to do with it. Are you committed to the
group?
Bob: Well
yes! The group is the Wailers. Well fi some reason them seh Bob Marley
and the Wailers. I never tell anyone fi seh dat, from no time at all. But
maybe fi some reason why dem do it. Well I man is a Wailers. An' ah just
soh it rest. Right now I&I ah goh play some music and just gwaan play
some music until then. Until wah fi happen will just happen. Because I&I
don't plan life. Because when man plan, Jah wipeout.
Neville:
Alright, but what about song writing. You write such a lot of music. Different
people write music in different ways. Some sit down and write the words
and then put the music to it. Some write the music, then drop in the words
after. Do you have a process, and exactly what is it, if you have one?
Bob: Well
it grow together. Is like, first time mi try to write a song is the first
time mi try to play the guitar. And soh mi can write a song without the
guitar. But it really grow together. Mi really like stay with mi guitar.
But it just happen, is Jah inspiration come thru man. Because, I personally,
it look like, could ah write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick
special tune fi write. 'Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know
wah ah mean.
Neville:
Yes. I understand.
Neville:
Hey, listen I know you hand a close association with Johnny Nash, who has
done quite a lot of your tunes. And me hear people talking and saying,
"bwoy ah wonder if Johnny Nash ever treat our Jamaican man right?".
What exactly is the situation? We are quite free on this program.
Bob: Well...
Dem gi mi some money the other day. And want mi fi sign another agreement
with them. Mi really ah check it out like (ha ha). 'Cause yuh know...chuh!
Is like mi noh waan really seh nothing bad 'bout dem, and still mi noh
have nothing much good fi seh.
Neville:
What do you think about Americans taking Reggae and doing it and making
big money out of it? Like Johnny Nash has done and Paul Simon and a couple
of other people. What do you think about that.
Bob: Well
dem do something wah thru these people out yah try kill wi off, wi couldn't
do right. Because dem people out yah too wicked. Now Neville dem ting yah
mek mi vex.
Neville:
I understand.
Bob: Look
how much good artist inna Jamaica. Look wah it tek fi a guy, jus' seh because
dem is guys, seh alright mi ah goh get some good recording done and do
a ting with it. Jus' ah hustle off ah people. Waah yuh come in deh come
do 15 tune in 3 hours. And soh ah guy spend $15,000 (JA) mek a album and
when the album come it sell a million. Soh him don't loose, because him
really stay deh and noh guess nothing. Him stay deh and do wah him ah do.
Neville:
So you mean that the people here wouldn't want to spend the money on us.
Bob: Dem
never waan do that.
Neville:
I see.
Bob: Dem
wait until Johnny Nash and dem guys deh gwaan with a ting. An' certain
guys dem si whole heap a guys ah come in now. Dem hardly want wi even do
it to. Yuh ah fi have yuh own studio and all that. Wah wi ah try get right
now our own studio. Because if wi want it, Jah will mek wi have it.
Neville:
You want a studio?
Bob: Yeah!!!
Because wi want to mek music. Yuh have to much man out deh wah wi ah fi
go thru too much other things, just thru classes.
Neville:
You've spoken a couple time about classes. Middle class and that type of
thing.
Bob: Yeah.
I've come to realize se dem really divide wi in classes. Yes, and is true.
Dem try fi divide wi in classes weh mi don't agree with. Because is wickedness.
Yuh caan divide people. How can yuh divide the people? Some ah dem noh
have four foot.
Neville:
Yeah. True, true.
Neville:
Listen Bob, we've run out of time, but I'd like to ask you if you have
any sought of hope in the country Jamaica right now. You are a guy getting
on alright in your field. You know. In singing.
Bob: Hope
in the country?
Neville:
Yes.
Bob: Well
yes. Jamaica is a little nice great place. Mi really love Jamaica, because
mi walk plenty stone land inna Jamaica and plenty hills. But ah think we
really need a direction. Not a big ol' signing up this and signing up that,
but a direction in your own country. Wah happen to the earth. An mean wi
have to till the soil. An' it noh call fi slavery fi do that. It just call
fi understanding.
Neville:
Well atleast you have made a start, because you say you are a Farmer.
Bob: I
man a Farmer Jah from creation.
Neville:
Ok. Bob Marley its been a great pleasure talking to you.