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© Ben Heine || Facebook || Twitter || www.benheine.com
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One of my old pencil portraits made in 1997, I was 13 y/o.
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For more information about my artwork: info@benheine.com
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Some of my favorite song lyrics by this amazing man:

Redemption Song

Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

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? ooh!
Some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.

Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.
Wont you help to sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.

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Africa Unite

Africa, unite
cause were moving right out of babylon
And were going to our fathers land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man, yeah
To see the unification of all africans, yeah
As its been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the rastaman
We are the children of the higher man

Africa, unite cause the children wanna come home
Africa, unite cause were moving right out of babylon
And were grooving to our fathers land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all rastaman, yeah

As its been said already let it be done, yeah
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the rastaman
We are the children of the higher man

So, africa, unite, africa, unite
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for its later than you think

Unite for the benefit of your children
Unite for its later than you think
Africa awaits its creators, africa awaiting its creators
Africa, youre my forefather cornerstone
Unite for the africans abroad, unite for the africans a yard
Africa, unite

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Exodus

Exodus: movement of jah people! oh-oh-oh, yea-eah!

Men and people will fight ya down (tell me why!)
When ya see jah light. (ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
Let me tell you if youre not wrong; (then, why? )
Everything is all right.
So we gonna walk - all right! - through de roads of creation:
We the generation (tell me why!)
(trod through great tribulation) trod through great tribulation.

Exodus, all right! movement of jah people!
Oh, yeah! o-oo, yeah! all right!
Exodus: movement of jah people! oh, yeah!

Yeah-yeah-yeah, well!
Uh! open your eyes and look within:
Are you satisfied (with the life youre living)? uh!
We know where were going, uh!
We know where were from.
Were leaving babylon,
Were going to our father land.

2, 3, 4: exodus: movement of jah people! oh, yeah!
Send us another brother moses!
From across the red sea!
Send us another brother moses!
From across the red sea!
Movement of jah people!

Exodus, all right! oo-oo-ooh! oo-ooh!
Movement of jah people! oh, yeah!
Exodus!
Exodus! all right!

Move! move! move! move! move! move!

Open your eyes and look within:
Are you satisfied with the life youre living?
We know where were going;
We know where were from.
Were leaving babylon, yall!
Were going to our fathers land.

Exodus, all right! movement of jah people!
Exodus: movement of jah people!
Movement of jah people!

Move! move! move! move! move! move! move!

Jah come to break downpression,
Rule equality,
Wipe away transgression,
Set the captives free.

Exodus, all right, all right!
Movement of jah people! oh, yeah!
Exodus: movement of jah people! oh, now, now, now, now!
Movement of jah people!

Move! move! move! move! move! move!
Movement of jah people!

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Guiltiness

Guiltiness (talkin bout guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience. oh yeah.
And they live their lives (they live their lives)
On false pretence everyday -
Each and everyday. yeah.

These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
Just the small fish.
I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. oh yeah.

Say: woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! oh, yeah!

Guiltiness
Pressed on their conscience. oh yeah. oh yeah.
These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
Just the small fish.

I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. oh, yeah.

But: woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! oh yeah!

Guiltiness. oh yeah. ah!
Theyll eat the bread of sorrow everyday.

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I shot the sheriff

I shot the sheriff
But I didnt shoot no deputy,
I shot the sheriff
But I didnt shoot no deputy,
Yeah! all around in my home town,
Theyre tryin to track me down;
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I say:

Oh, now, now. oh!
(I shot the sheriff.) - the sheriff.
(but I swear it was in selfdefence.)
Oh, no! yeah!
I say: I shot the sheriff - oh, lord! -
(and they say it is a capital offence.)

Sheriff john brown always hated me,
For what, I dont know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow -
He said kill them before they grow.
And so:

Read it in the news:
(I shot the sheriff.) oh, lord!
(but I swear it was in self-defence.)
Where was the deputy?
I say: I shot the sheriff,
But I swear it was in selfdefence. yeah!

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw sheriff john brown
Aiming to shoot me down,
So I shot - I shot - I shot him down and I say:
If I am guilty I will pay.

(I shot the sheriff,)
But I say (but I didnt shoot no deputy),
I didnt shoot no deputy, oh no!
(I shot the sheriff.) i did!
But I didnt shoot no deputy. oh!

Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket a-go a well,
One day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom a-go drop out.
I say:

I shot the sheriff.
Lord, I didnt shot the deputy. yeah!
I (shot the sheriff) -
But I didnt shoot no deputy, yeah! no, yeah!

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War

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.

That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a mans skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war.

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
That hold our brothers in angola,
In mozambique,
South africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War - war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The african continent
Will not know peace,
We africans will fight - we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory

Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!

Description
© Ben Heine || Facebook || Twitter || www.benheine.com
____________________________________________________

One of my old pencil portraits made in 1997, I was 13 y/o.
____________________________________________________

For more information about my artwork: info@benheine.com
____________________________________________________

Some of my favorite song lyrics by this amazing man:

Redemption Song

Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

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? ooh!
Some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.

Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.
Wont you help to sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.

----------------------

Africa Unite

Africa, unite
cause were moving right out of babylon
And were going to our fathers land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man, yeah
To see the unification of all africans, yeah
As its been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the rastaman
We are the children of the higher man

Africa, unite cause the children wanna come home
Africa, unite cause were moving right out of babylon
And were grooving to our fathers land

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all rastaman, yeah

As its been said already let it be done, yeah
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the rastaman
We are the children of the higher man

So, africa, unite, africa, unite
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for its later than you think

Unite for the benefit of your children
Unite for its later than you think
Africa awaits its creators, africa awaiting its creators
Africa, youre my forefather cornerstone
Unite for the africans abroad, unite for the africans a yard
Africa, unite

---------------------------

Exodus

Exodus: movement of jah people! oh-oh-oh, yea-eah!

Men and people will fight ya down (tell me why!)
When ya see jah light. (ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
Let me tell you if youre not wrong; (then, why? )
Everything is all right.
So we gonna walk - all right! - through de roads of creation:
We the generation (tell me why!)
(trod through great tribulation) trod through great tribulation.

Exodus, all right! movement of jah people!
Oh, yeah! o-oo, yeah! all right!
Exodus: movement of jah people! oh, yeah!

Yeah-yeah-yeah, well!
Uh! open your eyes and look within:
Are you satisfied (with the life youre living)? uh!
We know where were going, uh!
We know where were from.
Were leaving babylon,
Were going to our father land.

2, 3, 4: exodus: movement of jah people! oh, yeah!
Send us another brother moses!
From across the red sea!
Send us another brother moses!
From across the red sea!
Movement of jah people!

Exodus, all right! oo-oo-ooh! oo-ooh!
Movement of jah people! oh, yeah!
Exodus!
Exodus! all right!

Move! move! move! move! move! move!

Open your eyes and look within:
Are you satisfied with the life youre living?
We know where were going;
We know where were from.
Were leaving babylon, yall!
Were going to our fathers land.

Exodus, all right! movement of jah people!
Exodus: movement of jah people!
Movement of jah people!

Move! move! move! move! move! move! move!

Jah come to break downpression,
Rule equality,
Wipe away transgression,
Set the captives free.

Exodus, all right, all right!
Movement of jah people! oh, yeah!
Exodus: movement of jah people! oh, now, now, now, now!
Movement of jah people!

Move! move! move! move! move! move!
Movement of jah people!

----------------------------

Guiltiness

Guiltiness (talkin bout guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience. oh yeah.
And they live their lives (they live their lives)
On false pretence everyday -
Each and everyday. yeah.

These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
Just the small fish.
I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. oh yeah.

Say: woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! oh, yeah!

Guiltiness
Pressed on their conscience. oh yeah. oh yeah.
These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
Just the small fish.

I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. oh, yeah.

But: woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
Theyll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! oh yeah!

Guiltiness. oh yeah. ah!
Theyll eat the bread of sorrow everyday.

------------------------

I shot the sheriff

I shot the sheriff
But I didnt shoot no deputy,
I shot the sheriff
But I didnt shoot no deputy,
Yeah! all around in my home town,
Theyre tryin to track me down;
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I say:

Oh, now, now. oh!
(I shot the sheriff.) - the sheriff.
(but I swear it was in selfdefence.)
Oh, no! yeah!
I say: I shot the sheriff - oh, lord! -
(and they say it is a capital offence.)

Sheriff john brown always hated me,
For what, I dont know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow -
He said kill them before they grow.
And so:

Read it in the news:
(I shot the sheriff.) oh, lord!
(but I swear it was in self-defence.)
Where was the deputy?
I say: I shot the sheriff,
But I swear it was in selfdefence. yeah!

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw sheriff john brown
Aiming to shoot me down,
So I shot - I shot - I shot him down and I say:
If I am guilty I will pay.

(I shot the sheriff,)
But I say (but I didnt shoot no deputy),
I didnt shoot no deputy, oh no!
(I shot the sheriff.) i did!
But I didnt shoot no deputy. oh!

Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket a-go a well,
One day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom a-go drop out.
I say:

I shot the sheriff.
Lord, I didnt shot the deputy. yeah!
I (shot the sheriff) -
But I didnt shoot no deputy, yeah! no, yeah!

------------------------------

War

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.

That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a mans skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war.

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
That hold our brothers in angola,
In mozambique,
South africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War - war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The african continent
Will not know peace,
We africans will fight - we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory

Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!