Ok, this will be the dumbest question ever posted on the org...but can someone explain Bob Marley's No Woman, No Cry?
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please woman , don't cry

This song is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded, in my opinion. The o.g. version is from The Wailers 1974 album "Natty Dread". The more well known version is Bob's live version from 75. Both version's are fantastic but I do favor the live version. The sentiment of the lyric's are although you, I, we as people have suffered pain and lost in the past, our future is still something to look foward to and to believe in. Thus the hook and the title of the song "No Woman, No Cry". He's telling not only his woman but everyone, to keep your head and your faith up. "No, no woman, don't cry. It's going to be alright.". That's what the song is about. One of the most uplifting songs ever. It's simply beautiful, I think.

Nothing to add, except to say what a beautiful song this is.

you know I talked to a coworker about this after posting this topic and he explained it to me....

silly me I was confused b/c I thought he was saying a lack of woman was no reason to cry when in fact no woman is declaritive....

I get it now...that he is telling his woman no...do not cry....I understood the verse but was confused about the chorus


sad I didn't understand that before...yeh it is a beautiful song that he wrote about Rita his first wife...I was glad she got a good song b/c his other girlfriend Cindy Shakespeare got a lot of cool songs like Waiting in Vain...
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No woman, no cry (Repeat 4 times)

'Cause I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
Oba, ob-serving the hypocrites
As they would mingle with the good people we meet
Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say

No woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Little darlin' don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry

Said, said, said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light
Log wood burnin' through the night
Then we would cook corn meal porridge
Of which I'll share with you

My feet is my only carriage
So I've got to push on through
But while I'm gone...

Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright

So, no woman, no cry
No, no woman, no woman, no cry
Oh, little darling, don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry

No woman, no woman, no woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Oh, my little darlin' please don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry, yeah

damn ebonic educations..

It means that if you're not in a relationship you don't have to take no bullshit from women either.

It's about how if you don't have a woman, you won't cry. The single life is bitchin'. Bob knew that and wanted to warn all hetero men before it was too late.

blackguitaristz said:

Agreed!

it will be on the new album PM Dawn Loves You by PM Dawn.

The pseudo-acoustic, hard rocking versions of Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge” will sonically hypnotize even the most jaded listener. The knockout punch is a surprise left hook: Stevie Wonder’s funk-filled “Superstition” flipped over a familiar sample and injected with new life for 2006. Overall, the P.M. Dawn Loves You is a welcome treat for their loyal, worldwide fans and clears up any past, present and future questions about P.M. Dawn’s music. Be’s final statement, “Bottom line, I genuinely like pseudo watered down, candy, poppy shit. I genuinely like alternative rock shit. I’m just a fan of music and I wanted to bring it to the table different.” Good Music is just good music, no matter what race, genre or category people want to put it in.

sosgemini said:

wonder505 said:

btw,,,,I am black and the person who posed the question...but apparently not an expert on ebonics...and I have lived in the "hood" =-)

nwnc http://www.youtube.com/wa...oWS19mq4zA

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wonder505 said:

Not funny...it has nothing to do with that ebonics BS

blackguitaristz said:

U are correct....I believe that the song is based on a letter that he wrote to Rita, while he was away. He was feeling very sentimental at the time and he had written all of his thoughts to her...He kept on telling her....No woman....No Cry....Everything is going to be okay.

On another note, although Bob wrote the song,he gave a writers credit to a friend of his, who had help him in the past and who now, needed help. The name escapes me right now. It was a good friend of his, though.

shorttrini said:

Vincent Ford

Krytonite said:

Thank you Krytonite...