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Messenger: Ark I Sent: 2/26/2006 1:28:27 PM
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Bunny Wailer is not really talking about evil, but more of people's perception that someone is evil, even though they are not.

Check this part of the song.
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Growing and learning and gathering, for myself a little more
experience jumping over the fence
Curiousity has brought me yes it's brought me, a little common-sense
Trodding the road of life, I've come to this one conclusion
That everything is equal under the sun, all that is createdby JAH mighty hand
And he said knock and it shall be opened
Seek and Ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places,
In the nick of time, knock and it shall be opened
Seek and ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places, in the nick of time
and now I trod the same road of aflictions just like the
Blackheart Man, just like the Blackheart Man
Getting my share of humiliation just like the Blackheart Man
Just like the Blackheart Man
You'll find me even in the prison of the dungeons
just like the Blackheart Man, just like the the Blackheart Man
I even get blamed without a reason just like the Blackheart Man
Just like the Blackheart man


No cross, no crown, no sorrow, no trial and crosses In-a-I way
But the hotter the battle is the sweeter JAH JAH victory
Ancient children use to say if you want good
Your nose got to run run run
How could the world go free, and let JAH bear the cross alone
And them that drink of the old wine hath no place for the new
For the new and the stones that are head of the corner are the
same one that the builders refused
Now, it's the Blackheart Man, children
Who've become the wonder of the city (rep).
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Messenger: Dread Lion Sent: 2/27/2006 10:59:58 AM
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Give Thanks Bredrin,

Iman have a hard time making out all the lyrics and therefore with interpreting the song's meaning. If the I has access to them could the I post the whole song, I'm pretty sure there are lyrics in there about how children should stay away from the Blackheart Man who gives candy to children and takes them away as well as the ones the I has quoted. Iman wonder still about the context of the song as a whole.

ONE LOVE


Messenger: Dreadnut Sent: 2/27/2006 1:10:15 PM
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That cd is so poppy and horrible that I question the whole album.

Bunny Wailer should ask the Congos or the Ethiopians what good reggae is.

Sorry not really on the subject.


Messenger: Ras KebreAB Sent: 2/27/2006 3:08:42 PM
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Are you serious Dreadnut? Im wondering if we are talking of the same album
Battering down sentence
Fig tree
Dreamland

Poppy? Horrible? LAst words that come to mind in describing this album

This album helped my overstanding of Rasta more than any other

In the beginning there was but one concept
And thats the concept of I




Messenger: Dreadnut Sent: 2/27/2006 3:18:24 PM
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Well maybe I'm thinkin of another album, but bunny wailer has some horrible music that is definatly definatly poppy music. Even if the words are right, that horrible poppy reggae beat is terrifying.


Messenger: Ark I Sent: 2/27/2006 7:08:36 PM
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Here are the lyrics from a website. I didn't check the whole thing over, so there could be some mistakes in it.

You can find lyrics to most songs on the internet. Just go to google and type, for example:

"blackheart man" "bunny wailer" lyrics

Sometimes you will have to look at a few sources because some people who write the lyrics don't Iverstand the language enough and they misinterpret some parts.

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Tekya the Blackheart Man, children
I say, don't go near him
Tekya the Blackheart Man children
For even lions fear him (repeat)

Growing in a neighbourhood for such along time
That is filled with fear
I can't go here, can't go there
And I ain't supposed to go anywhere
When I ask my Mom if she could let me go out and play
She said be careful of the stranger
Giving candies to children
And then take them away

He lives in the gullies of the city
He's the Blackheart Man (The blackheart Man)

Even in the lonely parts of the country
He's the Blackheart Man, Blackheart Man
Got no friend, no home, no family
He's the Blackheart 'Man, The Blackheart Man
He is famed to live just like the Gypsy
He's the Blackheart 'Man, The Blackheart Man

Growing and learning and gathering, for myself a little more
experience jumping over the fence
Curiousity has brought me yes it's brought me, a little common-sense
Trodding the road of life, I've come to this one conclusion
That everything is equal under the sun, all that is createdby JAH mighty hand
And he said knock and it shall be opened
Seek and Ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places,
In the nick of time, knock and it shall be opened
Seek and ye shall find that wisdom is found in the simplest of places, in the nick of
time and now I trod the same road of aflictions just like the
Blackheart Man, just like the Blackheart Man
Getting my share of humiliation just like the Blackheart Man
Just like the Blackheart Man
You'll find me even in the prison of the dungeons
just like the Blackheart Man, just like the the Blackheart Man
I even get blamed without a reason just like the Blackheart Man
Just like the Blackheart man yau

No cross, no crown, no sorrow, no trial and crosses In-a-I way
But the hotter the battle is the sweeter JAH JAH victory
Ancient children use to say if you want good
Your nose got to run run run
How could the world go free, and let JAH bear the cross alone
And them that drink of the old wine hath no place for the new
For the new and the stones that are head of the corner are the
same one that the builders refused
Now, it's the Blackheart Man, children
Who've become the wonder of the city (rep).
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Ark I
RasTafarI
Haile Selassie I


Messenger: Dread Lion Sent: 2/27/2006 7:09:37 PM
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Yo Ras KebreAB,

What does the I make of the track "Blackheart Man"?

ONE LOVE


Messenger: Dread Lion Sent: 2/27/2006 7:15:29 PM
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Ras Ark I,

Give thanks for the post and info on finding lyrics, tho this lyric still seems ambiguous to I.


Messenger: Ras KebreAB Sent: 2/28/2006 6:09:09 AM
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]Yes I DreadLion

I cant say there is one song on this album that i dont like. In my opinion this a reggae classic, to be mentioned, as you did, in the company of albums such as Heart of the Congos. And Blackheart Man just might be my fav track on the album. Its true what the i say that Bunny made some really bad albums and i dislike that poppy watered down reggae just as much as you but this Album??/ we should remember that this is a brethren who quit the Wailers cause he d rather spend his time on his farm than tour in babylon

I dont understand what is so ambigious about this track. Is not the BlackheartMan what they used to call Rasta in jamaica in the early days when InI where considered to be the lowest in that society, the days when they used to tell their children..when you see a blackheart man dont go near him cause he will take you away
To I this song is nothing but Rasta history in this Iwah

"He lives in the gullies of the city"
remember when they used to chase InI brethren, anywhere you go catch you and trim off your locks

"Got no friends, no home, no family"
"When thy mother and father forsake thee,,HIM will take thee"

Then he goes on to try and show u that though times seem to have changed, sometimes Rasta have to endure the same as when they used to call him Blackheart man

But then he shows you that all that we endure , we are happy to because we shall endure it in the name of our Father when he says
"How could the world go free, and let JAH bear the cross alone "


" Now, it's the Blackheart Man, children
Who've become the wonder of the city "

Im sure any one who goes to JA or any place with a large rastafari community, will agree. Time to come InInInI shall be the wonder of the whole world


Rastafari Love



Messenger: Dread Lion Sent: 2/28/2006 11:32:53 AM
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Yes I Bredrin,

Give thanks fi the reasoning, the I's interpretation works. I was unaware of the history of the phrase by Jamaicans to downpress InI.

JAH LIVE



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