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Jailbreaker

7 marzo, 2011

Ya hemos hablado en más de una ocasión de las llamadas Mother B. Tapes y hemos escuchado algo de ellas. Hoy nos iremos a por la primera, la que tiene grabaciones acústicas de Bob Marley grabadas en 1977 en su casa de Vista Lane en Miami.

Bob aprovechó, como siempre, para componer en aquellos días en que la gira de “Exodus” por los USA quedó definitivamente cancelada. Las cintas quedaron en su casa y nada salvo una idea para “We and them” salió de allí.

Este es el primer fragmento de aquella cinta. Las primeras ráfagas de algo que ahora conocemos como “Jailbreaker”. Un amago no exacto y con saltos de la letra os lo dejo aquí.

he jury found I guilty
and I found them guilty too
cuz I’m a jailbreaker
a hot stepper
well, I’m livin’ in injustice…
Heard it on the radio
I was armed and dangerous
but in my heart I know
I’m full of love
I’m a jailbreaker
a hot stepper…
jailbreak
day break
got to watch the city
said the watchman watch in vain
and while they was sleeping
slip through the gate again
yeah, I’m a jailbreaker
it’s easy
hot stepper…
yeah they came and they frame I
for things I never do
and the jury found I guilty
but I found them guilty too…
said we’re victim of circumstances
and we don’t stand a chance
but the good have to endure the struggle
look and never take a chance…
how could you put me
behind bars with your lies
you want to ruin my freedom
in this type of institution
two sticks of dynamite
could cause a night excuse…
yes they came and they took I
to the gallows to hang I
this old priest came up to I and said
oh, the good got to suffer for the bad…
no don’t you hang him down
he’s not the one who shot up a town
no you can’t hang that one
he’s not the one who mosh up your town…
as I walk through the dark shadows of the ghetto
say we yearn for the sunshine of freedom…
make us lie down in the prison cells of injustice…
they say I’m armed and dangerous
well, all I’ve discovered I’ve got my heart
Babylon get nervous
them know we got to tear it apart
dem grow up in the ghetto
never know what happiness is
first tried to make it on the street
and look at what it come to – this…
I’m a jailbreaker
yes I’m a hot stepper

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audio: Jailbreaker (Home tape 1977)

Tanatik.

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