“Your recipe is, darlin,’ is so tasty.” Here Bob Marley makes a daily reference to cooking activities. In I shot the sheriff Bob Marley sings a line which is quite unfamiliar to average non-Jamaican audience, “Everyday the bucket a go a well One day theīottom a go drop out.” This is a Jamaican metaphoric expression means that every time you mess up with me, one day you are going to get it. Who are attacking the underprivileged that at some point they will not take it anymore and will just explode. He is not commanding for arm physical violenceīut instead giving a prophesy of doom to the evildoers. In “Duppy Conqueror” Bob Marley is singing about Jamaican mystic lore.ĭuppy in a simple translation is a ghost. Duppy is also used by Jamaican to refer to the whites because of their It is a restless spirit that haunts the living to do harm. In its metaphorical sense it refers to everything that constitutes evil forces like corrupt It implies the whites as a colonial authority.
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