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Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight
Preacher man don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know
What life is really worth
It's not all that glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, eh!
You stand up for your right
Come on!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight
Most people think
Great God will come from the sky,
Take away everything
And make-a everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights, jah!
Get up, stand up (Jah, jah)
Stand up for your right (Oh, hoo)
Get up, stand up (Get up, stand up)
Don't give up the fight (Life is your right)
Get up, stand up (So we can't give up the fight)
Stand up for your right (Lord, Lord)
Get up, stand up (Keep us struggling on)
Don't give up the fight, yeah
We sick an' tired of your ism-skism game
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord
We know when we understand
Almighty God is a living man
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?)
We gonna stand up for our rights (Yeah, jah, jah!)
So you better
Get up, stand up (In the morning, get it up)
Stand up for your right (In the night)
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight (Don't give it up, don't give it up)
Get up, stand up (Get up, stand up)
Stand up for your right (Get up, stand up)
Get up, stand up (Don't be a nigger in your neighborhood, yeah)
Don't give up the fight (Get up, stand up)
Get up, stand up (I don't think that should be very good, Lord) (Get up, stand up)
Stand up for your right (Get up, stand up)
Get up, stand up (I said, don't be a nigger in your neighborhood, yeah)
Don't give up the fight
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 06, 2012 - 08:11 This song is good for the ears... and the soles... |
| mistabird (frei republik allgäu) | Posted: Jul 05, 2012 - 10:06 für Bob immer 10  |
| ziakut (Right Here) | Posted: Jul 05, 2012 - 10:06 This song has about 1:43 worth of staying power. After that this gets tiresome and grating. Small, small doses folks. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Feb 29, 2012 - 11:31 Here's to the late great Peter Tosh!!!!!! |
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Oct 25, 2011 - 16:53 8 to a 9. Sounding better with age. |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Jun 21, 2011 - 16:42 jadewahoo wrote: Too bad you weren't there... or here, in this moment where you could grasp the power and effectiveness of a single voice added to the chorus of the many voices who say "Enough!! No More!". Too bad that you have failed to recognize the value of a shared music to be a pathway that leads to the unification of a shared and common goal. However, that you haven't in no way denies the value and efficaciousness of music as a central and powerful force to unify people around a commonly shared view of a better world. Just the opposite. Rock, if it is any good at all, discourages people from acting in concert (sorry the pun). The US lost the Vietnam war on the battlefield. No amount of support at home would have won it. There was a "silent majority" in favor of the war right up until the very end. Rock can free the mind, yet drugs just lock it back up, so in a way it was a wash. Too much narcissism, of which there is no shortage in your post. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Feb 15, 2011 - 14:47 Marley was undoubtedly a brilliant musician, but I think he's just a little bit overrated. That said, this tune is still an easy 7, even with such a tinny recording. |
| peter_james_bond (West Of The Burg) | Posted: Feb 15, 2011 - 14:44 Could be the rallying song for the current Arab country protests.  |
| nerakdon (Colorado) | Posted: Feb 15, 2011 - 14:41 My dog does not approve of this song, and insists that Mr. Marley sit down and hush. I disagree. :) |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Aug 09, 2010 - 16:15 the prophet |
| DoctorHooey (/etc) | Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 07:50 It's interesting that the guitars and keys are very similar in sound to those used by Frank Zappa on the "Roxy and Elsewhere" album. did they have house gear? |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 07:50 Ever spelled be-ya-ja woah woah woah and then said it really fast in front of a mirrow? Dangerous. |
| steeler (Sixth Heaven) | Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 07:48 It's been overplayed, so one doesn't really listen to it that carefully anymore . . . but that is a mistake. Just so powerful. Dignified defiance. An impassioned cry that continually needs to be answered. |
| 2noir | Posted: Jan 17, 2009 - 15:02 10+ for calypsus liric post'ssssssssssssssssssssssss |
| Tim_in_N_FL (Florida) | Posted: Jan 17, 2009 - 14:54 Wow...started out at one (slower) tempo and the drummer worked-up the tempo to a moderately faster tempo. I was a bit shocked...seemed like they were "rushing" the beat. It can happen to the best of performers I guess...  |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Nov 15, 2008 - 10:50 Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight! Preacherman, dont tell me, Heaven is under the earth. I know you dont know What life is really worth. Its not all that glitters is gold; alf the story has never been told: So now you see the light, eh! Stand up for your rights. come on! Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight! Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight! Most people think, Great God will come from the skies, Take away everything And make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, You will look for yours on earth: And now you see the light, You stand up for your rights. jah! Get up, stand up! (jah, jah!) Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo!) Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!) Dont give up the fight! (life is your right!) Get up, stand up! (so we cant give up the fight!) Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord!) Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on!) Dont give up the fight! (yeah!) We sick an tired of-a your ism-skism game - Dyin n goin to heaven in-a jesus name, lord. We know when we understand: Almighty God is a living man. You can fool some people sometimes, But you cant fool all the people all the time. So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ), We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!) So you better: Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!) Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights!) Get up, stand up! Dont give up the fight! (dont give it up, dont give it up!) Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!) Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!) Get up, stand up! ( ... ) Dont give up the fight! (get up, stand up!) Get up, stand up! ( ... ) Stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up! Dont give up the fight! /fadeout/ remembering Mr. Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley ** 10 ** |
| jadewahoo (NoMad Lifestyle) | Posted: Oct 30, 2008 - 15:49 lwilkinson wrote: Music only has meaning to the young who have yet to live enough life to understand that music changes nothing. Marley's from Jamaica'mon where the 'rasta's have been singing protest songs for how long? with how much positive change? THe only way to change and history and your reference to slavery is to look at slavery. It took the abolitionist movement which originated and was pushed by churches along with a civil war over states rights vs. federalism and which came very close to ending the United States to end slavery. Then, after the Democrats during reconstruction institutued Jim Crow laws, it took another 100 years or so of aggitating by the church and other religious organizations along with civil disobedience to end that. Then the 60's came along and everyone held hands and sang a lot of "Kumbaiya" and all we got was .....zilch! Singing didn't end Vietnam nor did protests. That took a lot of dead service men combined with a sagging economy and a change in administration. Only being educated and then being politically involved will change anything. Sitting around and singing but doing nothing results in.......nothing. As to voting, FDR said it best (I think it was him??)....... "All elections are local and people always vote their pocketbook." The music of the 60s was a powerful motivating and bonding force. People sitting around the campfire, or a candle in the darkened apartment of a Lower East Side tenement, listening to the music, knowing that one was not alone, that there were others, so many others, listening as well, seeing the world through the POV expressed as the common voice of our people, embrazened us enough to get out of our rooms, into the streets and to create a social environment where the continuation of the Vietnam War was no longer acceptable. By putting our bodies on the line, in frot of Nat'l Guard troops and water cannons, in the line of fire of Tactical Police Force batons and bullets – and refusing to let the actions of the Goons to quiet our voices, we most certainly did force the hand of the policy makers to end that war. We kept the attention upon the hypocrisy and greed, the horrors being perpetrated in the name of Americans everywhere. it was music, the songs of the Civil Rights era, through which the peole gave voice to their mutual concerns. It was the music of Woody Guthrie and his ilk who garnered the ear of the workers to step up and insist (all the while singing, remember) on the recognition of collective bargaining and the betterment of the workplace conditions. Too bad you weren't there... or here, in this moment where you could grasp the power and effectiveness of a single voice added to the chorus of the many voices who say "Enough!! No More!". Too bad that you have failed to recognize the value of a shared music to be a pathway that leads to the unification of a shared and common goal. However, that you haven't in no way denies the value and efficaciousness of music as a central and powerful force to unify people around a commonly shared view of a better world. |
| Rocking-M (Blue Ridge Mountains) | Posted: Oct 30, 2008 - 15:21 lwilkinson wrote: THe only way to change and history and your reference to slavery is to look at slavery. It took the abolitionist movement which originated and was pushed by churches along with a civil war over states rights vs. federalism and which came very close to ending the United States to end slavery. the abolitionist where the worst case of hypocrites seen yet, but that's another truth little understood. But just consider, sold their slaves south, made it illegal to be a free black man and live in many northern States and then prosecuted an unholy war down south. But, as Lincoln said, "let the South go, where would we get our revenues?" It was totally about States Rights vs. Federalism and we see where that got us today! Rampant Federalism, squashed individual freedoms, and well on the road to Fascism. But that's just my 2 cents. Liked the Bob Marley tune! |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Oct 30, 2008 - 15:21 garthwb wrote: Needs Peter Tosh's voice, I have to say... Three cheers for Mr. McIntosh, the composer of this one |
| Pyro | Posted: Oct 30, 2008 - 15:18 I wish they'd give up the fight already. Long and booooring. IMHO. |
| lwilkinson (North Am-Home of the Last of the Rugged Individualists) | Posted: Aug 28, 2008 - 09:57 xc_para_puravida wrote: I agree, music has the power to shift the Zeitgeist which then shifts the popular consensus of what is plausible or acceptable. Remember there was a time when it was thought that for governments to abandon the slave trade would be economically disastrous. Now, no government could openly endorse such a policy. Any act of consciousness is a political act! Music only has meaning to the young who have yet to live enough life to understand that music changes nothing. Marley's from Jamaica'mon where the 'rasta's have been singing protest songs for how long? with how much positive change? THe only way to change and history and your reference to slavery is to look at slavery. It took the abolitionist movement which originated and was pushed by churches along with a civil war over states rights vs. federalism and which came very close to ending the United States to end slavery. Then, after the Democrats during reconstruction institutued Jim Crow laws, it took another 100 years or so of aggitating by the church and other religious organizations along with civil disobedience to end that. Then the 60's came along and everyone held hands and sang a lot of "Kumbaiya" and all we got was .....zilch! Singing didn't end Vietnam nor did protests. That took a lot of dead service men combined with a sagging economy and a change in administration. Only being educated and then being politically involved will change anything. Sitting around and singing but doing nothing results in.......nothing. As to voting, FDR said it best (I think it was him??)....... "All elections are local and people always vote their pocketbook." |
| EssexTex (Bee Cave, Texas) | Posted: Aug 28, 2008 - 09:47 thewiseking wrote: what's worse than annoyingly overplayed monotonous reggae? annoyingly overplayed monotonous reggae with a rushed tempo. You're more annoying than rushed tempo reggae....during live performance it often happens...what's the big deal?  |
| marmoteenha (Ituiutaba) | Posted: Aug 12, 2008 - 17:20 bless me my king!!  |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Jul 12, 2008 - 02:13 thewiseking wrote: what's worse than annoyingly overplayed monotonous reggae?
What I perceive is: pulse....nerve....extasy....passion....groove....what else do you want?
annoyingly overplayed monotonous reggae with a rushed tempo. And it's not that I'm deep into reggae either. |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Jun 10, 2008 - 13:48 what's worse than annoyingly overplayed monotonous reggae? annoyingly overplayed monotonous reggae with a rushed tempo. |
| starfishNcoffee (Brooklyn, NY) | Posted: Apr 24, 2008 - 05:48 Rebel Music! |
| garthwb (Emerald Isle) | Posted: Apr 24, 2008 - 05:46 Needs Peter Tosh's voice, I have to say... |
| felam (City By The Bay, Ca) | Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 15:37  |
| Wisecrowe (York, PA) | Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 15:33 DeemerDave wrote: Seems fine to me partner. |
| DeemerDave (The Gate City of NH, USA) | Posted: Mar 23, 2008 - 17:50 |
| honeygirl (~ USA) | Posted: Mar 23, 2008 - 17:47 I just can't bring myself to "dog" Marley. Won't do it. |
| riffster (looking for fast transport) | Posted: Feb 21, 2008 - 06:11 A musical genius. It doesn't take Kaya (or whatever you like to call it) to appreciate that fact. - Riff |
| oldviolin | Posted: Feb 21, 2008 - 06:08 I am compelled to say yes. |
| alph (Honolulu) | Posted: Feb 05, 2008 - 17:08 Excellent--and right after i finish smoking a "spliff." Bill, your timing is impeccable. I think this song gets a higher rating because of my "elevated" mood. |
| Ballzak | Posted: Feb 05, 2008 - 17:08 bupanishad2012 wrote: Enuff with Bob Marley, Pleeze! I know Peter Tosh used to sing Reggae, too!
More Bob Marley PLEASE! The man was a prophet. And (though this rendition is not one of my favorites) he had a super groovy groove to back his preachings. |
| ilibjorn (San Antonio, TX (but on the move)) | Posted: Jan 05, 2008 - 06:03 FluorideFreeMN wrote: I like Bob Marley, but I hear too much of him on air at RP.
5 and sinking fast... More, more, more. Want more here. 7.5. |
| xc_para_puravida | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 08:53 starfishNcoffee wrote: It's because people like you think this way that things keep going in the wrong direction. You obviously care but are too damn intellectually lazy to do anything. Wake up!  I agree, music has the power to shift the Zeitgeist which then shifts the popular consensus of what is plausible or acceptable. Remember there was a time when it was thought that for governments to abandon the slave trade would be economically disastrous. Now, no government could openly endorse such a policy. Any act of consciousness is a political act! |
| heyjoe3577 (Seattle) | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 08:52 Now Marley is a guy that I wish I could have seen in concert. Darn it darn it darn it. |
| ch83575 | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 08:50 This album and "Bridges to Babylon" always sound to me like somebody is rushing. I think it is the drummer. Makes it hard to listen to for me. Like there is a push-pull thing going on all the time on stage. |
| NoEnzLefttoSplit | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 08:49 i love everything on this album. 15 years old down by the river with my mates ghetto blaster... good times. correction, I tell a lie. It was this one:  |
| starfishNcoffee (Brooklyn, NY) | Posted: Nov 03, 2007 - 12:49 Gryn wrote: I give this song a "decent," but only because it really tries hard to make a difference.
Everybody knows songs never make a damn bit of difference, anyway. It's about the military might, it's about politics.. And the majority of good people don't even care about politics. It's because people like you think this way that things keep going in the wrong direction. You obviously care but are too damn intellectually lazy to do anything. Wake up! |
| bupanishad2012 (Springfield, Missouri) | Posted: Nov 03, 2007 - 12:42 Enuff with Bob Marley, Pleeze! I know Peter Tosh used to sing Reggae, too! |
| lattalo (Bear Tooths) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 14:18 Gryn wrote: I give this song a "decent," but only because it really tries hard to make a difference.
Everybody knows songs never make a damn bit of difference, anyway. It's about the military might, it's about politics.. And the majority of good people don't even care about politics. He did make a difference with his life, he educated people like me. |
| FluorideFreeMN (Central Minnesota) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 14:18 I like Bob Marley, but I hear too much of him on air at RP. 5 and sinking fast... |
| lattalo (Bear Tooths) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 14:15 This is the first time hearing Bob on RP, how nice. I went through a big reggae period in college. This brings back some great memories. I saw him live in Boston right before he died, he really did a lot of jamming and it was a great show!!!!! |
| raga (Italy - Como) | Posted: Sep 17, 2007 - 03:59 :puke: :puke: :puke: horrible version of a boring song! :puke: :puke: :puke: |
| Gryn (Oregon) | Posted: Sep 17, 2007 - 03:58 I give this song a "decent," but only because it really tries hard to make a difference. Everybody knows songs never make a damn bit of difference, anyway. It's about the military might, it's about politics.. And the majority of good people don't even care about politics. |
| TerryS (The other SW) | Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 18:02 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: Oh, come on, in this case it was ironic. the equivalent of Nigel Tufnel saying "you see this string? we play this one a lot." For those needing a smile........try this:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Tufnel |
| RobRyan (Canyon Country, CA) | Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 17:59 Even by the abysmally low standards of reggae, this is ridiculously boring. |
| CafeRacer (Indiana) | Posted: Aug 01, 2007 - 05:07 Pyro wrote: Reggae, from a musicians standpoint (or at least THIS musician) is BORING. ONE chord, repetitious lyrics...I just don't get reggae. And yes, I've smoked my share of ganja.
That may be true, but for me Reggae is SO much more than musicianship. It makes me feel good, and after all, isn't that one of the prime goals of music? The ability to make you feel or to transform your mood? |