Lyrics to
Roots, Rock, Reggae

This version of Roots, Rock, Reggae was released by Bob Marley in 1976.

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Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!

Hey, Mister Music, sure sounds good to me!
I can’t refuse it: what to be got to be.
Feel like dancing, dance ’cause we are free;
Feel like dancing, come dance with me!

Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!
Roots, rock, reggae, yeah! Dis a reggae music!
Play I some music: dis a reggae music!
Play I some music: dis a reggae music!

Play I on the R&B – wo-oh! Want all my people to see:
We’re bubblin’ on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!
Play I on the R&B; want all my people to see:
We bubblin’ on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!

Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music! Uh-uh!
Roots, rock, reggae, ee-mi duba! Dis a reggae music!
Play I some music: (dis a reggae music!)
Play I some music: (dis a reggae music!)

(Dis a reggae music!)
(Dis a reggae music!)

Play I on the R&B; I want all my people to see: (doo-doo-doo-doo!)
We bubblin’ on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!
(doo-doo-doo-doo!)
Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music!
(Dis a reggae music!)
(Dis a reggae music!)

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About Lyrics and Roots, Rock, Reggae by Bob Marley

The lyrics to Roots, Rock, Reggae are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bob Marley used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Roots, Rock, Reggae have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bob Marley and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Roots, Rock, Reggae by Bob Marley. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Roots, Rock, Reggae" means the words set to the music of Roots, Rock, Reggae, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Marley. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Roots, Rock, Reggae and the lyrics to Roots, Rock, Reggae are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Marley who came here looking just for the lyrics to Roots, Rock, Reggae, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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