Miami Beach - Garland Jeffreys ♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫

Miami Beach was recorded in 1980 in London with the great LINTON KWESI JOHNSON as the narrator, reading the news from the Miami Herald. I went to the UK to record this one and worked with the great dubmaster Dennis Bovell and his musicians. We achieved the exact result we wanted. Linton read my clipping and the sound of his voice and mine did the talking.
Garland
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Video compiled and edited by Doug Webb / Connect Artists (http://www.connectartists.com).
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Miami Beach
Music & Lyrics by Garland Jeffreys

I was walkin' Miami Beach
I was feelin' so out of reach
It was not like the European nights
It was not like the Broadway lights
They like-a-separate-a-Black from a-Whites
They like-a-separate-a Black from his rights
I was feelin' so out of touch
I don't like this place very much

Walkin' down the road in the boilin' heat
The Miami sun in the middle of the street
See a cop with a club and a gun
The man say he no hurt anyone
He lies through his teeth
With a smilin' face
He cries to the judge and
They close up the case
Now 'ya know this a real and a-true ya' know
What ya' gonna feel and do

I was walkin' down the road in the blistering heat
A bomb explode on a hot concrete
It can happen in a broad daylight
It can happen in the middle of the night
Screech and a scream and a pistol shot
It can't be a dream if it sounds like that
It's a riot in a Liberty City
A race riot such a down right pity
Walkin' down the road one afternoon
Feelin' upset no I'm not immune
Let me tell you a story
Another painful story

What ya' think of a world like that
A clicky lickle world like that
What ya' think of a world like that
A world full a' dread like that

Think!!

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[jaculater69]

Linton is the man. I love protest music. Been a radical since my teens back in the 70s. Garland Jefferys took me through hard times in the late seventies and 80s. Reggae is music for the evolving mind. When a man speaks out the system tries to silence him.

When a man has words that degrade his communtiy the system endorses it.

[mizjk]

Big props to Linton Kwesi Johnson..i never knew who was that great VOICE in this song.Peace~

[shootthepump]

Lost track of this classic song but traced it back after many yrs. GJ blends with LKJ and musicians in a phenomenal way.

[DLCOrganization]

1987. Shopping a Brooklyn flea market. I just picked up this record because it was a rare occurrence at that time to see a promotional 7" record from Epic with 4 songs and no hole for an adapter. No idea what to expect, and then.. S C O R C H E R ! ! ! That was the first time I had ever heard of Garland Jeffreys and this song along w/ "We The People" are mainstays of my soundsystem, Roots Dynamic. 2006. We both performed at Southpaw for Beyond Race. Missed U @ IBS 2010! > Professor DLC

[LostGentlemen]

timeless masterpiece!

[carameloxx]

nope but i know pll who lived there during the drug wars.people would had been seen walking down the streets,you could had gotten killed for no reason but the plesure of the one who killed you murder rates went from 200 to 1200 from 1979 to after when the cubans came

[billnalli]

When someone asked me about the one album (!) I'd take to a deserted island I answered "Escape Artist". That was 25 years ago, and I still stick to it. The beauty and horror of "Mystery Kids", "Graveyard Rock", and "Miami Beach" (although it was on the 45 that went with the album) makes this an indespensible work. I love this guy!

[EdMan2012]

Don't go north of Flagler street in the downtown area. That's the worst part of the city. Other "bad" areas are scattered and small and aren't as bad.

Stay out of Carol City, Liberty City, Overtown, Wynwood, Little Havana, Little Haiti,

These are other 'rough areas'

Old coconut grove, west South Miami, Cutler Bay. That's about it.

[q123wa]

they dont, they like to visit South Beach =-)

hahah

[PriaNorm]

Miami has high crime rate -horrible politicians -lots killed yearly why would anyone visit there ?