As It Is

I start singing in the late sixtees

Told about Studio One by Bob Marley

Music went up down and around

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Did someone remember Burning Spear

Did someone remember

Did someone remember Burning Spear

Did someone remember him

The music attention

Was in a different direction

Not a burning direction

Spear been through his struggle

With a lot of patience and discipine

never bow down

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I've been through the struggle

like everyone

Like the earlier musicians

Blues musicians

Jazz musicians

Reggae musicians

I was going back and forth

From St. Anns to Kingston

Thirteen Brentford Road

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Many times I ain't got no bus fair

Therefore got to hitch-ike on truck back

I am the stone that builders refused

I am the stone that builders refused

They put me aside

They passed me by

Thinking I would cry

Stone don't cry

Stone don't cry

Usually sit on Key Largo beach

Playing my bongos and eating ital stew

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The few soldiers that know me

They're either from Rough House

or Soft House

Talk about Key Largo beach

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