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Thread #90929   Message #1726791
Posted By: Azizi
25-Apr-06 - 08:10 AM
Thread Name: Songs & Commentary about Hair
Subject: RE: Songs & Commentary about Hair
Sorry, let me try that link again:

http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/rasta/dreadlocks.shtml

By the way, in Marley's song "Dem Crazy Baldheads" , "baldheads" is a referent for members of the White [and- I believe- Black, and other non-White] ruling class. Those people don't wear their hair in dreadlocks and look scornfully on those who do.

Here's the lyrics to "Dem Crazy Baldheads"

Bob Marley
Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On (1995)
Crazy Baldheads
Them crazy, them crazy
We gonna chase those crazy
Baldheads out of town
Chase those crazy baldheads
Out of town

I and I build a cabin
I and I plant the corn
Didn't my people before me
Slave for this country
Now you look me with a scorn
Then you eat up all my corn

We gonna chase those crazy baldheads
Chase them crazy
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town

Build your penitentiary, we build your schools
Brainwash education to make us the fools
Hate is your reward for our love
Telling us of your God above

We gonna chase those crazy
Chase those crazy bunkheads
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town

Here comes the conman
Coming with his con plan
We won't take no bribe, we got to stay alive

We gonna chase those crazy
Chase those crazy baldheads
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town

http://www.usq.edu.au/course/material/EDU1131/real/lec07/Supplementary/lyrics.html
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