Escrita por Bob Marley, foi gravada entre outubro e maio de 1972, e lançada em 13 de abril de 1973, no quinto disco dos Wailers chamado Catch a fire. Wayner Perkins tocou guitarra e fez o solo de Concrete Jungle. Robbie Shakespeare tocou baixo e Tyrone Downie tocou teclado. Bob Marley tocou guitarra e cantou. Peter Tosh tocou orgao, guitarra e piano. Bunny Wailer tocou Bongos e congas. Carlton Barrett tocou bateria. Rita Marley e Marcia Griffiths fizeram backing vocals.
A letra:
No
sun will shine in my day today (no sun will shine)
The high yellow
moon won't come out to play (that high yellow moon won't come out to
play)
I said (darkness) darkness (has come and covered my light)
has covered my light,
(And has changed)
And has changed (my day
into night) my day into night, yeah.
Where
is the love to be found? (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Won't someone tell me
'cause
Life (sweet life) must be (got to be) somewhere to be found
(out there somewhere out there for me)
Instead of concrete jungle
(Jungle, jungle, jungle!),
Where the living is hardest (concrete
jungle!).
Concrete jungle (jungle, jungle, jungle)
Man, you got
to do your best (concrete jungle!)
Wo-ooh, yeah
No chains
around my feet but I'm not free, oh
I know I am bounded in
captivity
(Never known) I Never known (what happiness is)
happiness;
(Never known) I've never known (what sweet caress is)
what sweet caress is
Still, I'll be always laughing like a clown;
(oooh-oooh-oooh)
Oh
someone help me 'cause I (sweet life) -
I've got to pick myself
from off the ground yeah (got to be, out there somewhere out there
for me)
In this ya concrete jungle (Jungle, jungle, jungle!):
I
said, what do you got for me (concrete jungle!) now? oh
Concrete
jungle (jungle, jungle, jungle!), why won't you let me be (concrete
jungle!) now? yeah
Ohhh yeah
I said that life (sweet life)
must be (got to be) somewhere to be found (out there somewhere for
me)
Oh, instead: concrete jungle (jungle!) - collusion (concrete
jungle!) -
Confusion (confusion). Eh!
Concrete jungle
(jungle!): we've made it, We've got it.
In Concrete jungle
(concrete jungle!), now. Eh!
Concrete jungle (jungle, jungle,
jungle!).
What, what do you got for me (jungle, jungle!) now?
A versão dos Wailers:
A versão de Andy Marichel:
A versão de Picaretas Reggae:
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