Escrita por Bob Marley, foi gravada em 1974 no Harry J. Studios, em Kingston, Jamaica e lançada em 25 de outubro de 1974 no disco Natty Dread, O sétimo disco da banda. Foi o primeiro sem Peter Tosh e Bunny Wailer. Trata-se de uma celebração positiva de reggae e sexo, influenciada pelo blues. Mostra também sua crescente influencia do Rastafari. Bob Marley cantou e tocou guitarra ritmica. Aston Barrett tocou baixo. Carlton Barrett tocou bateria e percussão. Bernard Harvey tocou piano e órgão. Jean Roussel tocou teclado e arranjou a canção. Al Anderson tocou guitarra solo. Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt e Marcia Griffiths fizeram os backing vocals. Lee Jaffe tocou gaita.
A letra:
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You're gonna
lively up yourself, and don't be no drag
You lively up
yourself 'cause reggae is another bag
You lively up yourself,
and don't say, 'no'
You're gonna lively up yourself 'cause i said
so!
Hear what
you gonna do
you rock so, you rock so, like you never did before,
yeah!
you dip so, you dip so: dip through my door
you come so,
you come so, oh yeah!
you skank so, you skank so: be alive today!
You're gonna
lively up yourself, and don't say, 'no'
you lively up yourself,
big daddy says so, y'all!
you lively up yourself, and don't be no
drag
you lively up yourself 'cause REGGAE is another bag
What you got
that I don't know?
I'm a-trying to wonder - wonder - wonder why
you
wonder - wonder why you act so. yeah!
Hey, do you
hear what the man said?
lively up your(self) - your woman in the
morning time, y'all!
wa! keep a liv'lin' up your woman when the
evening come
and take you - take you - take you - take
you!
come on, baby! 'cause i wanna be lively myself,
y'all!
lively up yourself
lively up yourself
you want to
rock so, you rock so
you rock so, you rock so
you dip so,
you dip so
you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag!
you
come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag!
Get what you got
in that bag!
what you got
in d' other bag you got hanging there?
what you say you got?
I
don't believe you!
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