Bob Marley and The Wailers - Slave Driver

Bob Marley and The Wailers

Slave Driver

Catch A Fire

©TuffGong/Island (1973)

Lycris:
Ooh-ooh-oo-ooh. Oo-oo-ooh! Oo-oo-ooh.
Slave driver, the table is turn; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn, now. (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire: gonna get burn. (catch a fire) Wo, now!

Ev'rytime I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalize the very souls.
Today they say that we are free,
Only to be chained in poverty.
Good God, I think it's illiteracy;
It's only a machine that makes money.
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all. Ooh-ooh-oo-ooh.

Slave driver, uh! The table is turn, baby, now; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn, baby, now. (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire: so you can get burn, now. (catch a fire)

Ev'rytime I hear the crack of a whip,
My blood runs cold.
I remember on the slave ship,
How they brutalize the very soul.

O God, have mercy on our souls!
Oh, slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire, so you can get burn. (catch a fire)
Slave driver, the table is turn, y'all; (catch a fire)
Catch a fire ...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bob
• Marley
• and
• The
• Wailers
• Slave
• Driver
• Catch
• Fire
• Reggae
• TuffGong/Island
• 1973

[chinculo]

viva bob

[smiletobubbles]

one of his greatest hits

[TheNereidMZA]

true that b4 they was no such thing as DR or PR n Jamaica n Cuba jes indians till the spanish came n killed them off n turned them 2 slaves too many was dyin so they used africans cuase they thought they can withstand harsh conditions yea whites call indians n blacks dumbasses n shit but we taught how to do evrything farming, architecture trading n all that we built the capitol building for christ sake cmon!

[mm0000009]

Must get paid! the longer they wait the more they have to pay I and I. then i will give them a loan to fix their problem. lol

[hitthedeck245]

This song slave driver is not talking about police,it's talking about those white slave masters that brought africans on boats to jamaica as slaves.Look into the history of the jamaica and the rest of the caribbean and you will find out how africans got to the caribbean as slaves.He was bashing those whites that were the slave masters in the song,so stop trying to twist the song,because you know he is talking about those dirty ass white people.LMAO

[milonlou]

SLAVE DRIVER = POLICE! BUT THE TABLES ARE TURN! REVOLUTION IS HERE TO STAY. OCCUPY EVERYTHING!

[laetitiaisma]

Bob was more than a great legend i think really was God !

[thehanz123]

everyone smoke the herbss for the ledgendd

[AlanAnthonyDoyle]

*****

[nattynativekid17]

@nkako007 shut up. his dad was white too, but Bob obviously didn't give a fuck. he still directed this song towards white crakka jackas

[Cordelles3]

Slave Driver is the published title for this song. The title of the album is Catch a Fire which derrives from the second line in the first stanza of the song