Bob Marley & The Wailers - One Love/People Get Ready [HD]

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Bob Marley & The Wailers sing 'One Love/People Get Ready'. This version of the song was first on the 1977 Bob Marley & The Wailers Island album 'Exodus'. The song on this video is from the 1984 Island compilation album 'Legend-The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers' (2002 Deluxe Edition). The lyrics and comments about the song are below.

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One Love/People Get Ready (Singers: Bob Marley & The Wailers)

One love
One heart
Let's get together and feel alright
(hear the children crying)

One love (hear the children crying)
One heart (sayin')
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright (sayin')
Let's get together and feel alright
(whoa whoa whoa whoa)

Let them all pass, all their dirty remarks (one love)
There is one question I'd really love to ask (one heart)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinners
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own (believe)

One love (what about one heart)
One heart (what about love)
Let's get together and feel alright (as it was in the beginning)

One love (so shall it be in the end)
One heart (alright)
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright
Let's get together and feel alright
(one more thing)

Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (one love)
So when the Man come, there will be no no doom (one song)
Have pity on those whose chances grows thinner
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of creation (sayin')

One love (what about one heart)
One heart (what about love)
Let's get together and feel alright (I'm pleading to mankind)

One love (what about one heart)
One heart (oh oh)
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright
Let's get together and feel alright
(give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright)

Songwriters: Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield
[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

"One Love/People Get Ready" is a reggae song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from their 1977 album Exodus. It was first recorded in a ska style by Marley's original group, The Wailers in 1965 and was released as a single. This version was later included on their first singles compilation The Wailing Wailers in 1965. It was rerecorded as part of the 1970 medley "All In One", which contained reggae reworkings of their early ska songs. This was released as a single and is also included on the compilation African Herbsman under the name "All in One". The version on Exodus was not released as a single until 9 April 1984, promoting the forthcoming greatest hits album Legend. However, the single became one of his biggest hits and has been included on many of Marley and the Wailers subsequent compilation albums.

The song contains an interpretation of The Impressions' song "People Get Ready" written by Curtis Mayfield. The original recording of the song does not credit Mayfield's song and is simply titled "One Love" – this is because copyright law was not enforced for Jamaican recordings at this time. When the famous version was recorded for Island in 1977 it was titled "One Love/People Get Ready" and credited Mayfield (as Island wanted to avoid copyright problems) and it gives co-authorship credits to both Marley and Mayfield. The original song was published in the key of B♭ major, but it has since been transposed so it is in the key of C major.