Bob Marley & the Wailers
Redemption Song
Uprising (1980)

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Old pirates, yes, they rob I
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Sold I to the merchant ships
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Minutes after they took I
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From the bottomless pit
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But my hand was made strong
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By the hand of the Almighty
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We forward in this generation triumphantly

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Won't you help to sing      these songs of freedom?
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'Cause all I ever had,    redemption songs
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Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
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'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
Redemption songs

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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
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All I ever had,   redemption songs
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These songs of freedom,    songs of freedom

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