105. Roots

    Bongo Red / The Gladiators
    Dreadlocks The Time Is Now / The Gladiators

ボーカル&ギターのアルバート・グリフィス(Albert Griffiths)が
中心のグラディエイターズ。
脇を固めるのはベースのクリントン・フィーロン(Clinton Fearon)、
リズムギターのゲリモア・サザーランド(Gallimore Sutherland)。

グループ全員が楽器もやって歌もやってというバンドスタイルは
ジャマイカ音楽では珍しい気がする。
アルバート・グリフィスの声がRoots期に絶妙にフィットしていて
それに加えてコーラスの掛け合いもばっちりなところがこのグループの魅力。

最近、歌詞を見つけてきて聞いている。
掲載曲の歌詞も載せておきます。
Stand up fight for your rights!!



I-man don't like to get mix up (mix up, mix up)
By pushing me mouth in something I can't prove (no, no, no)
I-man don't take hearsay (hearsay)
Them kind of things bring mix up (mix up, mix up)
I-man no say what next man say (next man say)
I like to prove things for I-self (for I-self)

So I take a walk from 6th street
Trying to prove something
Going to the bottom of 8th street
From corner to corner you can hear
Yes, the youth dem a shout
Natty dread, yes them dread

Natty dread, natty rule
Natty cool, (cool-cool natty dread)
Yes them dread
For they stand up in Babylon

Natty dread, natty rule
Natty cool



I had a vision last night 
That I was walking on a street of pure gold 
This street that I saw 
Is where I and I should have been 
So why don't we stand up and fight for our rights 

Dreadlocks the time is now 
Stand up fight for your rights 
Or you ain't gonna get your culture man 
Roots natty, don't give up  hold on

If I am wrong, be not afraid to say so 
Is there any difference between the black and white? 
We are all of one skin same blood , same soul 
But there are some who think dreadlocks don't count 

Dreadlocks the time is now
Stand up fight for your rights 
Or you ain't gonna get your culture man 
Roots natty, don't give up  hold on