Chords for Bob Marley - Redemption Song | Behind The Scenes

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Redemption Song was recorded as the very last track on an album called Uprising.
When I did hear it, I liked it but I didn't really love it because I felt
that the lyrics were so important and so relevant that it would be better if it
was done acoustically.
So I mentioned to Bob and he said, well how would that
really work because the rest of the album was all with a band.
So I said to him,
we'd put the song right at the end of the album, not just the last track but
leave a space so people felt the album was over and then you'd hear this song
as if it was, you know, an epilogue.
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_ [Bm] _ _ [A] Redemption [G] Song is one of them classic
Bambali songs which is more than just [C] a song.
[G] It's basically a history [B] book.
_ [C] _ [A] Redemption [G] means to be taken out of your [E] sins.
Some [Em] say through the blood [C] of
Jesus Christ [G] as a _ [Am] rock. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] Redemption Song is a song that tells you to [C] emancipate yourself [G] from
endless slavery.
[Am] Only you of yourself can free your [G] own mind.
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_ _ _ [C] _ [G] His music is not just something that dies.
It lives.
[B] The chorus music is [C] life.
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_ _ _ Let Christ remember us in his mercy.
Amen.
And not neglect us in his second coming.
Amen.
Let him awaken us in all the light in his country.
_ _ [Em] _ _ I [C] _ _ [G] _ [Ab] think [Em] it's absolutely one [G] of Bob's strongest songs, if [Abm] not the strongest song.
There was [C] something about it which [G] just [Dm] touched [Am] you, I think, more [D] than anything.
Won't you [G] help to sing _ _ [C] _
_ [A] these [G] songs of freedom?
The [Dm] blessing of God came [G] up on him and anointed him.
That's when he becomes a Rasta angel.
He started to fly over hills and valleys and everywhere over the world and drop a message here
that even you feel so happy to come and try to inquire, [Em] who is this man? _
[D] _ _ [G] _ [Em] _ _ _ So that [D] redemption now [A] is not just that we are free [Em] of chains [G] from our hands and our feet,
[Em] but we are totally liberated [C] from [Dm] colonial thinking.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ Bob Marley is an enforcer of righteousness.
He was put on [D] this earth to [G] enforce the word of God.
He has been doing that for millions and [C] thousands [G] of years.
Look inside and [Am] look.
_ [G] Yes, some say it's [E] just a part of us.
[G] [C] We've got to [G] fulfil [D] the book.
_ _ Won't you help to [G] sing _
_ _ [C] _ [D] these [G] songs of freedom?
_ It's [D] all I [Em] ever have. _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ [G] Redemption.
Well, I happen to hear it [C] for [G] myself.
It was so uplifting.
Redemption.
[C] Redemption. You know?
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[G] I do think [D] this is actually [G] the best of his songs to use [Dm] and feature on his [G] 75th birthday.
It has become more and more important as the years [Am] have gone by. _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] I [N] will. _
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The last time I [Am] did [Ab] it, [Bm] I swear [E] to everybody. _ _ _ _ _
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