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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