Desmond Dekker - Israelites 1968

[mlhdaley]

First line of 2nd verse is: Shut (shirt) dem a tear up, trouses(trousers) a go!

[apopkaflowerchild]

Thanks so much for posting this...great song !

[Looster1004]

Get up in the morning sleeping for bread sir

Sold out to every monk and beefhead

Oooooh! Aaaaaahhhhh!

Me ears are alight!

[DaughterxOFxDarkness]

@Looster1004 hehe lol

[janethebugg]

Loved this song when it was onn the radio. Wonderful to finally know all the words. Thank you.

[MonsieurAlheira]

Yeah right on Mr. Dekkar, that´s how we role in southern europe this days, slaving for bread and raiding drugstores to forget. Thank you Mr. Van Sant.

[1ronblair]

this man inspired bob marley amazing!!!!

[Newton2041]

Name that ad for cassette tapes: Man holding up signs that read "Get up in the morning, sleepin' for bread, sir / Sold out to every monk and beef-head / Oh-h oh-h, me ears are alight / Wife and my kids they buck-up and a-leave me / Darling cheese-head I was yards too greasy / Oh-h oh-h, me ears are alight..."

[1ronblair]

love this tune!!!!!

[pardalisgirl77]

Seeing Mr. Dekker play in Chicago was a religious experience. And I'm atheist.

[MrSouthphillyitalian]

i thought this song was about getting high

[chieromancer]

It was one of the first ska songs to become an international hit, despite Dekker's strong Jamaican accent which made his lyrics difficult to understand for audiences outside Jamaica. The opening line, "Gets up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir" was often misheard, one example being "Wake up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast".

[SYLBM]

great song. vote up if u found this on drugstore cowboy

[mccste]

"ooooooooo The Villa Are Shite"

[CymroGoch]

Ooooooooh Vitalite!

[MrHydeTheWeed]

Smoke up, turn it up - this shit is the shit.

[AbsoluteMonarchist]

You catch me in your farm you sound your alarm? For real? What was he smoking when he came up with that one?

[lauralee2414]

T*H*A*N*K*S

[UKChris44]

Saw Desmond Dekker in Southampton about 10 years ago & he was still amazin. Got to shake the great mans hand too!!!

[humongousaldo]

Thank you for putting up the lyrics. Always loved this song, but I never knew what the Hell he was singing! "Bonnie and Clyde" was about all I understood. Cool, Thank you!

[AbsoluteMonarchist]

@humongousaldo I've read the lyrics and I still don't know what the hell he was singing.

[SkidRowJosephine]

Get up in the morning, SAME THING FOR BREAKFAST, so that every mouth can be fed.......

LMAO!

[saclrpfrl10]

Only difference is, I DO want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde - YIKES!

[AbsoluteMonarchist]

@saclrpfrl10 You want to be shot and burned to death do you?

[AbsoluteMonarchist]

@saclrpfrl10 Answer me Clyde! Why do you want to be shot and burned to death?

[niveks66]

@AbsoluteMonarchist Dekker used many religious undertones in his lyrics , without a basic understanding of certain religious beliefs ,you never will "understand"

[AbsoluteMonarchist]

@niveks66 No really? What makes you think I don't understand "certain religious beliefs?"

[happyenjoytime]

Thanks for the lyrics. For 30 years I was singing "Get up in the morning, same thing for breakfast" ...rolf

[Drummafolife]

4 mouths didn't get fed

[soccerskils101]

LOL! ever notice the Trojan ad on top right at the starting

[Drummafolife]

@soccerskils101 trojan is the name of the record label, dummy. not the condomns, get ur mind out of the gutter.

[81mkenney]

Fricken amazing song!

[ExOfficerJimLahey]

this is the good shit right here

[twenkash1]

jamaica!!

[greencho23]

big des,camp as a row of tents

[hexlec2010]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaa LOL

[geezer0000]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooooooooooooh me ears are alight!!!!

[beastnick34]

concerning the lyrics for a more understandable listen try the Madness cover of this tune from 1975,you will find that without the Jamaican accent the lyrics are more distinguishable its shirt and trousers.. yours to receive..and catch me in your palm

[noteverton]

Sound your alarm? I thought he said lasagne I like. lol.

[sknyjohn]

Well, if Jesus Christ actually did exist, he'd've been Palestinian, Arab, & Palestine is right next to Egypt, which is Africa. Christ could never have been white.

[grahamw56]

@sknyjohn You never heard of immigration ?

[sknyjohn]

@grahamw56 What does immigration have to do with Christ? Do you think Christ or his "parents" immigrated to Palestine from Europe or something?

[grahamw56]

@grahamw56 Sure...why not ? Can you prove otherwise ? Didn't think so. :)

Oh, and it's 'emigrated'. See, you learn something new every day.

[AnarchistImmaculate]

@sknyjohn apparently Jesus did exist as he's considered a great Profit in Jewish text. His color is unimportant, his message is still unobserved by mankind.

[sknyjohn]

@AnarchistImmaculate Portraying Christ as white, as is so often done, is either denying that he ever existed (& it's quite possible that he never did exist) or, if he actually was an historical figure, portraying him as white is lying about who he was, &, since his color is unimportant, he needs not to be portrayed so overwhelmingly frequently as a color (white) that he could not have been.

[jhamler1]

@sknyjohn Amen!

[chernobyl2BZ]

@AnarchistImmaculate >" His color is unimportant," Dream on. This religion was created exclusively to co-opt the talented/industrious/open-mind­ed ( thus vulnerable ) euro-peons to the zionist cause. Whatever jewsus'  "color" or racial phenotype it was ( and still is) ESSENTIAL caucasians be easily-able to identify with jewsus. The common portrayal in that "skin" was and is no mistake.

[bombaclotindustrie]

cant agree more



[yvain29]

adds to make money on reggae music is just vain

[tongetonge1]

tells the real truth about the struggle

[gaybathroomsex]

YEAH!!!!

Larry Craig is my sex store cowboy in the airport bathroom since he is just determined to be a sex addict with blumpkins until another political scandal occurs!

[blueticecho]

Does this mean that Jesus was a brother ?

[SuperShotgun8]

it's sounds like my ears are alight

OMG LOL

[MrKasiainen]

after at least a thousand times the description corrected me - not slaving for oppressor but slaving for bread sir

[RANDOPAUL]

Wow, 1968!!!?? Where did the time go? Great Song!

[SkidRowJosephine]

WTF? That guy looks more Negro than Israelite.

[imperialbabyglemz]

@SkidRowJosephine idiot, he's a jamaican.... not an Israelite... listen to the lyrics of the song bum head....

[spareaxe]

@imperialbabyglemz some of them claim to be Israelites according their bible book.

[Dartwith]

Pooooaaarrrrr Me Israelite.

[montrosederek]

Two people need to have their internet connections cancelled...

[hakeem45able]

yuh betta believe that jah live never dies



[shrinkydinkchink]

Classic skinhead jam. Don't wanna end up like Bonnie and Clyde

[dude75able]

JAH RASTAFARI!

12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL TAKIN OVER

[111111noA]

u2bjudge

ANOTHER

60s FAVO

[EnyapNoj007]

Anyone else remember this being bastardised to advertise Scotch audio tapes?

[buttacudawey]

LMAO ..ITS FUNNY TO SEE PEOPLE TRYIN TO WRITE WAT HES SAYING LMAO....TRYIN TO FIGURE OUT WAT A JAMAICAN IS SAYIN WILL MAD U...LMAO....BIG UP ALL YAADI. STR8888T/.

[Mr1borrego2]

Hey,

I'm half Brasileiro. There's no problem with that. It's bound to happen when different tribes get together. Ate a proxima dude and chill wit it yesssss.

Oh Yeah DD rocks #1 international star from West Indies.

[BrooklyntoBrixton]

Effy from Skins sent me here. I know weird right. Sent to a classic reggae song by a half Brazilian and white gyal.

[PANTERAHEAD]

wake up in morning wanting some breakfast

[kenshirothefist3000]

regular song

[zeldagoblin]

I always thought it said, "My wife and my kids they fuck off and leave me". I had this on vinyl and it was a tad scratchy lol

[LeCutter]

@zeldagoblin Well, a man can dream can't he?

[LionhartKing]

Cho...my selecta !!!!!!!!

[aNeway2sayHooray]

Thank you Drugstore Cowboy...

[bettypro]

get up in the morning sleeping for bread sir,

sold out to every monk and beefhead

oooooooh vite alite

wife an me kids dey buck up an a leave me

darlcheesehead you were yards to greasy ....

remember the adverts back in the 80s?

[mychoupette26]

2nd verse last line ...darlin' she said I was yours to BE SEEN

last verse last line....you catch me in your FARM, you sound your alarm

you know it makes sense



[xandersons]

@mychoupette26 thanx, updated ;)

[8milesnrunnin]

@mychoupette26 thank you so much, now i understand the song! bless

[AllSectorsHearThis]

I think you will find that:

the 1st verse last line is .... darling she said I was yours to receive...Israelites

2nd verse 1st line is ...' Chucked in my tear up towel years ago' as in throwing in the towel or giving up the fight. and the last line is (to God) You catch me in your palm you sound your alarm both biblical references to being in the hands of god and Jubel horn is blown to celebrate the settling of all debts for the Jubilee

[JeffRebornNow]

@AllSectorsHearThis I accept your interpretation as correct concerning, "You catch me in your palm you sound your alarm," it makes more sense than 'farm' and you can point to your biblical references, but I think you're off with "Chucked in my tear up towel years ago," that makes no sense and doesn't even sound remotely like what Dekker is singing in that verse. This sounds more like what he's singing, "shot them a tear up, trousers a go," but still doesn't seem right.

[victorramirez420]

DRUGSTORE COWBOY!!!!

[1ladymari]

Correction to your lyrics xandersons:Shocked then I tear up chose as I go : should read ... shot ( shirts ) them a tear up, trousers a go.

Translation : torn up shirts and worn out trousers!

[SuggaBaiibiiee]

@1ladymari actually the lyric is: shirts dem a tear out, trousers a bore (meaning bore hole) smh easy misunderstanding

[1ladymari]

@SuggaBaiibiiee thanks for that. At least i'm not hearing 'me ears are alight' - 'the israelites' - anymore :)

[happymealme]

This helps me get up in the morning and slave for bread.