"Redemption Song" -- Bob Marley:

Old pirates, yes, they rob I  Sold I to the merchant ships,  Minutes after they
took I  From the bottomless pit. But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.  We forward in this generation  Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing  These songs of freedom  'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,  Redemption songs.

(**)Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery  None but ourselves can free our minds.  Have no fear for atomic energy,  'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets, While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:  We've got to fulfill the Book.
Won't you help to sing  These songs of freedom  'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,  Redemption songs Redemption songs.
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This was Marley's last single before his death on May 11, 1981. It sums up his life and what he stood for in his songs: freedom and redemption. Marley was a very spiritual singer who gave hope to the downtrodden in his native Jamaica, and whose message spread to the United States and around the world when he became a star.  

Marley completed this album (his last) in the summer of 1980. He was suffering from the cancer that would eventually kill him at age 36, but was very productive in his later years. He refused traditional medicine because of his Rastafarian beliefs and chose to make music and perform as long as he could.                                                              (songfacts)