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Thread #90929   Message #1726758
Posted By: Azizi
25-Apr-06 - 07:31 AM
Thread Name: Songs & Commentary about Hair
Subject: RE: Songs & Commentary about Hair
Here's a song about hair from one of my favorite composers, Bob Marley:

Dread, natty dread now, (natty dread)
Dreadlock congo bongo i. (natty dread)
Natty dreadlock in a babylon: (natty dread)
A dreadlock congo bongo i. (natty dread)
Eh! children get your culture (natty dreadlock)
And don't stay there and gesture, a-ah, (natty dreadlock)
Or the battle will be hotter (natty dreadlock)
And you won't get no supper. (natty dreadlock)

Natty dread, natty dread, now; (natty dread)
A dreadlock congo bongo i. (natty dread)
Natty dreadlock in a babylon - (natty dread)
Roots natty, roots natty! (natty dread)

Then I walk up the first street, (natty dreadlock)
And then I walk up the second street to see. (natty dreadlock)
Then I trod on through third street, (natty dreadlock)
And then I talk to some dread on fourth street. (natty dreadlock)
Natty dreadlock in a fifth street, (natty dreadlock)
And then I skip one fence to sixth street. (natty dreadlock)
I've got to reach seventh street: (natty dreadlock)
Natty dreadlock bingy bongo I (natty dread)
Natty dread, natty dread, now, (natty dread)
Roots natty congo i. (natty dread)

Oh, natty, natty,
Natty 21,000 miles away from home, yeah!
Oh, natty, natty,
And that's a long way
For natty to be from home.

Don't care what the world seh; (natty dread)
I'n'i couldn't never go astray. (natty dread)
Just like a bright and sunny day: (natty dread)
Oh, we're gonna have things our way. (natty dread)
Natty dread, natty dreadlock, (natty dreadlock)
Dreadlock congo bongo i. (natty dreadlock)
Don't care what the world seh; (natty dreadlock)
I'n'i gonna have things our way. (natty dreadlock)
If a egg natty in a the red - (natty dreadlock)
If a egg natty in a the red. (natty dreadlock)
Natty dread, natty dreadlock. /fadeout/

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob-marley/21769.html

Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia about Natty Dread:

Natty Dread was a 1974 (see 1974 in music) reggae album by Bob Marley & the Wailers.

"Natty Dread was the first album released as Bob Marley & the Wailers (as opposed to The Wailers) and the first recorded without former bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston. It is also the first album recorded with the I-Threes, a female vocal trio that included Bob's wife, Rita Marley, along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natty_Dread