Lively Up Yourself



INFOS

Auteur : Bob Marley Productions : Lee Perry (1971) / Island (1974)


DESCRIPTION

Cette chanson est un hymne à l'unité et à la danse. Produit la première fois sur le tout nouveau label Tuff Gong en 1971, elle fut reprise par Bob pour son album "Natty Dread" en 1974.


PAROLES

You're gonna lively up yourself, and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, oh reggae is another bag
You lively up yourself, and don't say no
You're gonna lively up yourself, cos I said so
You what you're gonna do
You rock so, you rock so, like you never did before, yeah
You dip so, you dip so, dip thru my door
You come so, you come so, oh yeah
You skank so, you skank so, be alive today
You're gonna lively up yourself, and don't say no
You lively up yourself, big daddy says so, y'all
You lively up yourself, and don't be no drag
You lively up yourself, cos reggae is another bag
What you've got that I don't know ?
I'm trying to wonder, wonder, wonder why you
Wonder, wonder why you act so
( Hey, do you hear what the man seh ? )
Lively up yourself
Your woman in a morning time, y'all
Keep a lively up your woman when the evening come
and take her, take her, take her, take her
Come on babe cos I wanna be liv'ly myself y'all
Lively up yourself, lively up yourself
You gonna rock so, you rock so
You rock so, you rock so
You dip so, you dip so
You skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag
You come so, you come so, oh reggae is another bag
( Get what you got in that bag ?
What have you got in the other bag you got hanging there ?
What you say you got ? I don't believe you. )