War by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Album
Rastaman Vibration
Released
1976

Until the philosophy              [Intro] Gm F7

Which hold one race superior              Gm F7

And another - Inferior

Is finally  - And permanently      ╔════════════╗

Discredited - And abandoned        ║     War    ║

Everywhere is war - Me say war     ║ Bob Marley ║

That until there're no longer      ╚════════════╝

First-class and second-class citizens

Of any nation

Until the color of a man's skin

Is of no more significance

Than the color of his eyes - Me say war

That until the basic human rights

Are equally guaranteed to all

Without regard to race     - F#-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 regime that hold our brothers

In Angola               - In Mozambique

South Africa            - Sub-a-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                - Rumors of a-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 x4)