鮑勃馬力bob marley是把牙買加雷鬼raggae音樂推向世界舞台的第一人。其父是英國白人其母是牙買加黑人。他的很多歌曲的政治意味很強,主題基本是爭取種族平等。可惜英年早逝,卒於1981年,時年36歲。此君愛吸大麻所以在七十年代的歐美有大批年輕粉絲。
此首「戰爭」 的歌詞基本上就是衣索比亞皇帝海爾塞拉西一世1936年在聯大(聯合國前身)的發言。雖然海爾塞拉西同學是個可圈可點的人物,但是他的這篇聯大發言還是很有力度的。 歌詞附后。
視頻是1979年聖塔芭芭拉的音樂會。
war是視頻的前4:20,之後自然過度到了另一首歌no more trouble
歌詞:
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 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
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, rumors 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