MISSING GREGORY (TERRIBLY)

Beef deh a-market

Marrow inna bone

What don’t concern you

Please leave it alone

Cause the grass was made 

For the cows and ass

And the herb on this land

For the use of man

Put a smile on your face

While passing through

Put away all that frown

And that awful screw

We’re just sipping a cup

And having some fun

And it’s better than in the street

Passing gun

Cool down your temper Mr. Cop

Gregory Isaacs: Mr. Cop (Link)

FOOLISH DOG

Is a foolish dog
Bark at the flying bird
One sheep must learn

To respect the shepherd
Jah Live

Fools say in their heart
Rasta your God is dead
But I and I know Dread it shall be

Dreader Dread

Jah Live 

The truth is an offense

But not a sin

Is he who laughs last

Is he who win

Jah Live 

Yesterday, at energy's end, and past melancholy's final curve, my foolish dogs began to bark in unison at flying birds outside my window and I thought of this, one of Bob Marley's most extraordinary songs, and felt a lot better.  Isn't Earl "Chinna" Smith, reggae guitar avatar, structuring, spanning the sounds, just the greatest?

Bob Marley and the Wailers: Jah Live (Live)

Pictures:

1. Banksy:  Keith Haring Dog.

2. Joan Miro:  Dog Barking At Moon.

3. Shu Quan Fei:  A Sichuan Dog Barks At The Sun.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Alfonso Shoots First)

Like cattle the rest of their nation
was sacrificed to the sword;
Even those left behind were not saved.
The fierce fate of heaven
Loosed itself upon these.

 

So that a long interruption
May not hinder us,
Let us return to the principal matter
which we have begun. 


  

NOTES:


1.  Text excerpted from:  The Poem of Almeria (linked article).


2.  Photographs 1, 2 and 4 taken 2009 on the movie set for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Almeria, Spain.


3.  Sir Lord Comic and the Upsetters: Django Shoots First (music link).

4.  King Stitt: Lee Van Cleef (music link).