1979 – The Cure – Boys don't cry (1979)

 

Escrita por Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst e Michael Dempsey, foi gravada em 1979 e lançada em 12 de junho de 1979 no compacto que tinha Plastic passion como Lado B. Sairia também em 5 de fevereiro de 1980, no disco Boys don't cry, o segundo da banda. Foi produzida por Chris Parry. Falade um homem que desistiu de tentar ganhar novamente o amor que perdeu e fica tentando esconder o seu real estado emocional. Chegou ao número 99 na Australia. Michael Dempsey tocou baixo. Robert Smith cantou e tocou guitarra. Lol Tolhurst tocou bateria.

A letra:

I would say I'm sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time
I have said too much
Been too unkind

I tried to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I tried to laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'Cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness, plead with you
But I know that it's too late
And now there's nothing I can do

So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'Cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

I would tell you that I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it's no use
And you've already gone away

Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
Thought that you needed me more, more, more

Now I would do most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'Cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

Boys don't cry

A versão do The Cure:

A versão de Miley Cyrus:

A versão do Blink 182:

1978 – Bob Marley and The Wailers – Survival (1979)

Escrita por Bob Marley, foi gravada entre janeiro e fevereiro de 1979 no Tuff Gong Recording Studio, em Kingston, Jamaica e lançada no disco Survival, o décimo primeiro disco da banda, em 2 de outubro de 1979. Foi produzida por Bob Marley and The Wailers e Alex Sadkin. Bob Marley cantou, tocou guitarra base, violão e percussão. Aston Barrett tocou baixo, guitarra base e percussão. Carlton Davis tocou bateria e percussão. Tyrone Downie tocou teclado, percussão e fez backing vocals. Alvin Patterson tocou percussão. Junior Marvin tocou guitarra. Earl Lindo tocou teclado. Al Anderson tocou guitarra solo. Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths e Judy Mowatt fizeram backing vocals. Headley Bennett tocou sax alto. Ronaldo Robinson, Luther François e Melba Liston tocaram trombone. Junior Chin, Jackie Willacy e Micky Hanson tocaram trompete. Lee Jaffe tocou gaita.

A letra:

Yeah, yeah, yeah!
How can you be sitting there
Telling me that you care
That you care?
When every time I look around,
The people suffer in the suffering
In every way, in everywhere

Say, na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
We're the survivors
Yes, the Black survivors!
I tell you what some people got everything
Some people got nothing
Some people got hopes and dreams
Some people got ways and means

Na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
We're the survivors
Yes, the Black survivors!
Yes, we're the survivors, like Daniel out of the lions' den
(Black survivors) Survivors, survivors!
So I Idren, I sistren,
A-which way will we choose?
We better hurry oh, hurry oh, hurry wo, now!
'Cause we got no time to lose
Some people got facts and claims
Some people got pride and shame
Some people got the plots and schemes
Some people got no aim it seems

Na-na-na-na-na, (na-na, na-na!)
We're the survivors,
Yes, the Black survivors!
Tell you what, we're the survivors
Yeah! the Black survivors
Yeah! we're the survivors, like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
(Black survivors), thrown in the fire, but never get burn
So I Idren, I sistren,
The preaching and talkin' is done
We've gotta live up, wo now, wo now!
'Cause the Father's time has come
Some people put the best outside
Some people keep the best inside
Some people can't stand up strong
Some people won't wait for long

Na-na-na, na-na-na na!
We're the survivors
In this age of technological inhumanity (Black survival)
Scientific atrocity (survivors)
Atomic misphilosophy (Black survival)
Nuclear misenergy (survivors)
It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity (Black survival)

Together now
(Na-na-na-na-na!) Na na-na na na! (Na na-na na na!)
We're the survivors, yeah!
We're the survivors!
Yes, the Black survivors!
We're the survivors
A good man is never honored (survivors)
in his own country (Black survival)
Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors)
Nothing change, nothing strange (Black survivors)
We got to survive, y'all! (survivors)

A versão de Bob Marley and The Wailers:

A versão dos Picaretas do Reggae:

A versão de Julian Marley and The Wailers:

 

1977 – Van Morrison – You make me feel so free (1979)

 

 

Escrita por Van Morrison, foi gravada na primavera de 1979 e lançada no disco Into the music, o décimo primeiro de Van Morrison. Saiu também em compacto, com Full force gale como Lado B, em 1980. Foi produzida por Van Morrison. Van Morrison cantou. Herbie Armstrong tocou guitarra. Pee Wee Ellis tocou sax tenor. David Hayes tocou baixo. Mark Isham tocou trompete. Mark Jordan tocou piano. Peter Van Hooke tocou bateria. Katie Kissoon fez backing vocals. Foi regravada por Sinéad O'Connor, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

Some people spend their time just runnin' round in circles
Always chasing some exotic bird
I prefer to spend some time just listening for that special something
That I've never ever heard
I like a new song to sing, another show or somewhere entirely different to be
But baby you make me feel so free

And so I yearn for mistress calling me
That's the muse, that's the muse
But we only burn up with that passion
When there's absolutely nothing left to lose
I make it to spring and there's no bed of roses
Just more hard work and bad company
But baby you make me feel so free

I heard them say that you can have your cake and eat it
But all I wanted was one free lunch
How can I eat it when the man that's next to me, he grabbed it
Lord, he beat me to the punch

How can I even talk about freedom
When you know it's sweet mystery
But baby I wanna say that you make me feel so free

I'm gonna lay my cards just right down on the table
And spin the wheel and roll the dice
And whatever way it comes out
And whatever way it turns out
Well you know that's the price
Well I'll order again there's no need to explain
I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity

But baby you make me feel so free

What ya say what you say
What you say what you say what you say
Say it say it say it say it again

You make me feel so free.
So doggone free

A versão de Van Morrison:

A versão de Sinead O'Connor:

1976 – Led Zeppelin – Fool in the rain (1979)

 

Escrita por John Paul Jones, Robert Plant e Jimmy Page, foi gravada entre novembro e dezembro de 1978, no Polar Studios, em Estocolmo, Suécia. Foi lançada no disco In through the out door, o oitavo e último disco da banda, em 22 de agosto de 1979. Saiu também em compacto, com Hot dog como Lado B, em 7 de dezembro de 1979. Foi produzida por Jimmy Page. Foi o último compacto da banda nos Estados Unidos. Foi inspirada em batidas de samba que John Paul Jones ouviu na Copa de 1978, na Argentina. Chegou ao número 21 no Billboard Hot 100 e número 12 no Canadá. Robert Plant cantou. Jimmy Page tocou guitarra, violão de 6 e de 12 cordas. John Paul Jones tocou baixo, piano e sintetizador. John Bonham tocou bateria, agogô e marimba.

A letra:

Oh, baby
Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can't wait for night
I hate to think I been blinded baby
Why can't I see you tonight?
And the warmth of your smile starts a burning
And the thrill of your touch give me fright
And I'm shaking so much, really yearning
Why don't you show up and make it alright, yeah?
It's alright right

And if you promised you'd love so completely
And you said you would always be true
You swore that you never would leave me baby
Whatever happened to you?
And you thought it was only in movies
As you wish all your dreams would come true, hey
It ain't the first time believe me baby
I'm standing here feeling blue, blue ha!
Yes I'm blue
Oh, babe

Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I watch the people go shuffling downtown
Another ten minutes no longer
And then I'm turning around, 'round
And the clock on the wall's moving slower
Oh, my heart it sinks to the ground
And the storm that I thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that I found, found

Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found
Oh, that I found

Hey, babe, ooh

Hand that ticks on the clock
Just don't seem to stop
When I'm thinking it over
Oh, tired of the light
I just don't seem to find
Have you wait, yeah played
Whoa, I see it in my dreams
But I just don't seem to be with you, you
I gotta get it all, gotta get it all, gotta get it all
I've got to get all

Ooh now my body is starting to quiver
And the palms of my hands getting wet, oh
I got no reason to doubt you baby
It's all a terrible mess
And I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless
When I'm breathless I'll run 'til I drop, hey!
And the thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah

Hey, now, oh, oh, oh
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I
Light of the love that I found
Light of the hey, now light of the hey, now
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found

A versão do Led Zeppelin:

A versão do Troubadour Project:

A versão de Eric and Claire:

1975 – J. J. Cale – Don't cry sister (1979)

 

Escrita por J. J. Cale, foi gravada em 1978 no Lake House Studios, em Old Hickory, Nashville, Tennessee e lançada em agosto de 1979, no disco 5, o quinto de Cale. Foi produzida por Cale e Audie Ashworth. Foi regravada por Eric Clapton em 2006. J. J. Cale cantou e tocou baixo e guitarra. Christine Lakeland tocou orgão e guitarra base e fez backing vocals.

A letra:

Don't cry sister cry, it'll be alright in the morning
Don't cry sister cry, everything'll be just fine
Don't cry sister cry, it'll be alright, I tell you no lie
Don't cry sister cry, don't do it, don't do it

When Old Man Trouble knocks on your door
Don't give him no key, he just wants more
He'll turn your life to misery
Kick you down, just like me

Don't cry sister cry, it'll be alright, it'll be alright
Don't cry sister cry, everything'll be just fine
Woke downhearted and you feel so bad
Somebody wants something of nothing you had
Love don't come too easy, you see

A little bit of you and a little bit of me
Don't cry sister cry, it'll be alright, it'll be alright
Don't cry sister cry, everything'll be just fine
Everything'll be just fine
Everything'll be just fine
Don't cry sister cry, don't do it, don't do it
Don't cry sister cry, don't do it, don't do it

A versão de J. J. Cale:

A versão de Eric Clapton e J. J. Cale:

A versão de Alex Hamel:

1974 – Pink Floyd – The thin ice (1979)

 

Escrita por Roger Waters, foi gravada em entre abril e novembro de 1979 e lançada em 30 de novembro de 1979 no disco The Wall, o décimo primeiro disco da banda. Foi Produzida por Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Bob Ezra e James Guthrie. A primeira metade da canção é cantada por David Gilmour em um tom calmo. Então Roger Waters começa a cantar. Essa canção apresenta Pink, o superstar alienado da trama, ainda bebê e criança. David Gilmor canta, toca guitarra e sintetizador. Nick Mason toca bateria. Roger Waters canta e toca baixo. Richard Wright toca piano e orgão Hammond.

A letra:

Momma loves her baby
And daddy loves you too.
And the sea may look warm to you babe
And the sky may look blue
But ooooh Baby
Ooooh baby blue
Oooooh babe.

If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear-stained eyes
Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice.

A versão do Pink Floyd:

A versão do Sugar Horses:

A versão de Ian Anderson:

1973 – The Cure – Fire in Cairo (1979)

 

Escrita por Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey e Lol Tolhurst, foi gravada entre 1978 e 1979 e lançada no disco Three imaginary boys, o disco de estréia da banda, em 8 de maio de 1979. Foi produzida por Chris Parry. Robert Smith tocou guitarra e cantou. Michael Dempsey tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. Lol Tolhurst tocou bateria.

A letra:

Slowly fading blue, the eastern hollows
Catch the dying sun, the nighttime follows
Silence and black, mirror pool
Mirrors the lonely place where I meet you

See your head in the fading light
And through the dark, your eyes shine bright

Burn like fire
Burn like fire in Cairo
Burn like fire
Burn like fire in Cairo

Shifting crimson veil, silken hips
Slide under my hand, solar lips
Whisper my name and I yearn
You take me in your arms and start to burn

F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
Then the heat disappears
And the mirage fades away

F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O

Burn like a fire in Cairo
Burn like a
(Fire, fire, fire, fire)
Blaze like a fire in Cairo
Blaze like a
(Fire, fire, fire, fire)
Flare
Burn like fire
Burn like fire in Cairo

A versão do The Cure:

A versão de Luna:

1972 – Bob Marley and The Wailers – Zimbabwe (1979)

Escrita por Bob Marley, foi gravada entre janeiro e fevereiro de 1979 no Tuff Gong Recording Studio, em Kingston, Jamaica e lançada no disco Survival, o décimo primeiro disco da banda, em 2 de outubro de 1979. Foi produzida por Bob Marley and The Wailers e Alex Sadkin. É um hino dedicado à Zimbabwe que se tornou independente antiga Rodésia. Foi tocada na festa de celebração do país em 1980. Bob Marley cantou, tocou guitarra base, violão e percussão. Aston Barrett tocou baixo, guitarra base e percussão. Carlton Davis tocou bateria e percussão. Tyrone Downie tocou teclado, percussão e fez backing vocals. Alvin Patterson tocou percussão. Junior Marvin tocou guitarra. Earl Lindo tocou teclado. Al Anderson tocou guitarra solo. Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths e Judy Mowatt fizeram backing vocals. Headley Bennett tocou sax alto. Ronaldo Robinson, Luther François e Melba Liston tocaram trombone. Junior Chin, Jackie Willacy e Micky Hanson tocaram trompete. Lee Jaffe tocou gaita.

A letra:

Every man got a right to decide his own destiny
And in this judgment there is no partiality
So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way we can, overcome our little trouble

Brother, you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We gon' fight (we gon' fight), we'll have to fight (we gon' fight)
We gonna fight (we gon' fight), fight for our rights!

Natty Dread it in-a (Zimbabwe)!
Set it up in (Zimbabwe)!
Mash it up-a in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)!
Africans a-liberate (Zimbabwe), yeah

No more internal power struggle
We come together to overcome the little trouble
Soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionary
'Cause I don't want my people to be contrary

And, brother, you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We'll have to fight (we gon' fight), we gonna fight (we gon' fight)
We'll have to fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights

Mash it up in-a (Zimbabwe)
Natty trash it in-a (Zimbabwe)
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe! (Zimbabwe)
I and I a-liberate Zimbabwe

(Brother, you're right,) you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gon' fight (we gon' fight), we'll have to fight (we gon' fight)
We gonna fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights

To divide and rule could only tear us apart
In every man chest, there beats a heart
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries

Brother, you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We'll have to fight (we gon' fight), we gonna fight (we gon' fight)
We'll have to fight (we gon' fight), fighting for our rights!

Natty trash it in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Mash it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Natty dub it in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Set it up in-a Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Every man got a right to decide his own destiny

A versão de Bob Marley and The Wailers:

A versão de Tribal Youth:

A versão de Locomondo:

 

1971 – Van Morrison – Full force gale (1979)

 

Escrita por Van Morrison, foi gravda na primavera de 1979, no Record Plant Studios, em Sausalito, California e lançada em agosto de 1979 no disco Into the music. Sairia também na mesma época em um compacto, com Bright side of the road como Lado B. Foi produzida por Van Morrison. Tem um solo de slide guitar feito por Ry Cooder. Fala de um encontro com Deus. Ele diz que não importa pra onde vá, sempre acaba voltando pra casa, pra Deus. Foi regravada por Elvis Costello em 1994. Van Morrison cantou e tocou guitarra. Herbie Armstrong tocou guitarra. Ry Cooder tocou slide guitar. Pee Wee Ellis tocou sax tenor. David Hayes tocou baixo. Mark Isham tocou trompete. Mark Jordan tocou piano. Toni Marcus tocou violino. Katie Kissoon fez backing vocals. Peter Van Hooke tocou bateria.

A letra:

Like a full force gale
I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord

No matter where I roam
I will find my way back home
I will always return to the Lord

In the gentle evening breeze
By the whispering shady trees
I will find my sanctuary in the Lord

I was headed for a fall
Then I saw the writing on the wall

Like a full force gale
I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord

I was headed for a fall
Then I looked up and saw the writing on the wall

In the gentle evening breeze
By the whispering shady trees
I will find my sanctuary in the Lord

And no matter where I roam
I will find my way back home
I will always return to the Lord

Like a full force
Like a full force gale
I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord

I was lifted up again, lifted up
I said I was lifted up, by the Lord
Lifted up again, lifted up again, lifted up again
By the Lord

A versão de Van Morrison:

A versão de Elvis Costello:

A versão de Kaz Hawkins:

1970 – Led Zeppelin – I'm gonna crawl (1979)

 

Escrita por John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, foi gravada entre novembro e dezembro de 1978, no Polar Studio, em Estocolmo, Suécia. Foi lançada em 22 de agosto de 1979, no disco In through the out door, o oitavo e último disco da banda. Foi produzida por Jimmy Page. Trata-se de um blues relaxado. A intenção foi fazer algo parecido com Wilson Pickett e Otis Redding. Robert Plant cantou, Jimmy Oage tocou guitarra. John Paul Jones tocou baixo e teclados. John Bonham tocou bateria e percussão.

A letra:

Oh she's my baby
Let me tell you why
Hey, she drives me crazy
She's the apple of my eye
'Cause she is my girl
And she can never do wrong
If I dream too much at night
Somebody please bring me down

Hey, I love that little lady
I got to be her fool
Ain't no other like my baby
I can break the golden rule
'Cause I get down on my knees
Oh, I pray that love won't die
And if I always try to please
I don't know the reason why, yeah

If she would come back
Only stay with me
Every little bit of my love, etc.

I give to you girl

I don't have to go by plane
I ain't gotta go by car

I don't care just where my darling is
People I just don't care how far
I'm gonna crawl

I don't care if I got to go back home

I don't care what I got to stand to her back
I'm gonna crawl

I'm gonna move the car, baby

She give me good lovin

Yes I love her, I guess I love her

I wanna crawl

A versão do Led Zeppelin:

1969 – J.J. Cale – Boilin' pot (1979)

Escrita por J. J. Cale, foi gravada em 1978 em Nashville, Tennessee e lançada em agosto de 1979, no disco 5, o quinto da carreira dele. Foi produzida por JJ Cale e Audie Ashworth. Uma cançã que fala de tesão. J.J. Cale cantou, tocou as guitarras e baixo. Christine Lakeland cantou e tocou órgão.

A letra:

Now she don't know where she is, how sexy she can be
She don't realise what her eyes do to me
She keeps me hot, like a boilin' pot
She whispers in my ear, "Let's do it right here"

The ways of a wantin' woman aren't a mystery
The style she has will never fade as long as she's havin' me
She keeps me hot, like a boilin' pot
She whispers in my ear, "Let's do it right here"

She keeps me hot, like a boilin' pot
Burning right through the night
It don't take long for her to catch my eye
When she wants to suck me in, it's easy as pie
She keeps me hot, like a boilin' pot
Burning right through the night

A versão de J. J. Cale:

1968 – Pink Floyd – Vera (1979)

 

Escrita por Roger Waters, foi gravada entre abril e novembro de 1979 e lançada em 30 de novembro de 1979, no disco The Wall, o décimo primeiro da banda. Foi produzida por Bob Ezrin, Roger Waters, David Gilmour e James Guthrie. O título é uma referencia à cantora britânica Vera Lynn, que fez sucesso durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial com a canção popular We'll meet again. Roger cantou e tocou violão. David Gilmour tocou violão e baixo. Richard Wright tocou sintetizador. Tem também participação da Orquestra Sinfonica de New York.

A letra:

Where the hell are you?
Over 47 German planes were destroyed with the loss of only 15 of our own aircraft
Where the hell are you, Simon?

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that we would meet again
Some sunny day?

Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?

A versão do Pink Floyd:

A versão de Moby Dick:

1967 – Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Don't do me like that (1979)

 

Escrita por Tom Petty, foi gravada entre 1978 e 1979, foi lançada no disco Damn the Torpedoes, o terceiro disco da banda, em 19 de outubro de 1979. Saiu também em compacto, com Casa Dega como Lado B, em 5 de novembro de 1979. Foi produzida por Jimmy Iovine. Chegou ao número 10 no Billboard Hot100, sendo o único Top 10 da banda. Chegou também ao número 3 no Canadá e número 17 na Nova Zelandia. Tom Petty escreveu e gravou uma demo com sua antiga banda, Mudcrutch, em 1974. Jimmy Iovine convenceu Tom a incluir essa canção no disco, pois ele achava que seria um hit e foi.

A letra:

I was talking with a friend of mine, said a woman had hurt his pride
Told him that she loved him so and turned around and let him go
Then he said, "You better watch your step
Or you're gonna get hurt yourself
Someone's gonna tell you lies, cut you down to size"

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
What if I love you baby?
Don't do me like that

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
Someday I might need you, baby
Don't do me like that

Listen honey, can you see? Baby, it would bury me
If you were in the public eye givin' someone else a try
And you know you better watch your step
Or you're gonna get hurt yourself
Someone's gonna tell you lies, cut you down to size

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
What if I love you baby?
Don't, don't, don't, don't

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
What if I need you baby?
Don't do me like that

'Cause somewhere deep down inside
Someone is saying, "Love doesn't last that long"
I've had this feelin' inside night and day in
And baby I can't take it no more

Listen honey, can you see? Baby, it would bury me
If you were in the public eye givin' someone else a try
And you know you better watch your step
Or you're gonna get hurt yourself
Someone's gonna tell you lies, cut you down to size

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
What if I love you baby?
Don't, don't, don't, don't

Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
I just might need you honey
Don't do me like that

Wait!
Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
Baby, baby, baby,
Don't, don't, don't

No!
Don't do me like that
Don't do me like that
Baby, baby, baby...

Oh, oh, oh

A versão de Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers:

1966 – Bob Marley and The Wailers – Africa Unite (1979)

 

Escrita por Marley, foi gravada entre janeiro e fevereiro de 1979, no Tuff Gong Recording Studio, em Kingston, Jamaica e lançada em 2 de outubro de 1979, no disco Survival, o décimo primeiro da banda. Foi produzida por Bob Marley and The Wailers e Alex Sadkin. Bob Marley proclama nessa música uma solidariedade Pan-African. Bob Marley cantou, tocou guitarra base, violão e percussão. Aston Barrett tocou baixo, guitarra base e percussão. Carlton Davis tocou bateria e percussão. Tyrone Downie tocou teclado, percussão e fez backing vocals. Alvin Patterson tocou percussão. Junior Marvin tocou guitarra. Earl Lindo tocou teclado. Al Anderson tocou guitarra solo. Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths e Judy Mowatt fizeram backing vocals. Headley Bennett tocou sax alto. Ronaldo Robinson, Luther François e Melba Liston tocaram trombone. Junior Chin, Jackie Willacy e Micky Hanson tocaram trompete. Lee Jaffe tocou gaita.

A letra:

Africa unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our Father's land, yeah

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man, yeah
To see the unification of all Africans, yeah
As it's been said already, let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Iyaman

So, Africa unite
'Cause the children wanna come home (Africa unite), yeah, yeah
Africa unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're grooving to our Father's land, yeah

How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all Rastaman, yeah
As it's been said already, let it be done
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Iyaman

So, Africa unite
Afri- Africa unite, yeah
Unite for the benefit of your people (Africa unite)
Unite for it's later than you think (Africa unite)
Unite for the benefit of my children (Africa unite)
Unite for it's later than you think (Africa unite)

Africa awaits its creators (Africa unite)
Africa awaiting its Creator (Africa unite)
Africa, you're my forefather cornerstone (Africa unite)
Unite for the Africans abroad (Africa unite)
Unite...

A versão de Bob Marley and The Wailers:

A versão de Ziggy Marley:

A versão de Original Marley Cover:

1965 – Van Morrison – Bright side of the road (1979)

 

Escrita por Van Morrison, foi gravada na primavera de 1979, no Record Plant Studios, em Sausalito, California. Saiu em agosto de 1979, no disco Into the music, o décimo primeiro disco de Van. Saiu também em setembro de 1979, no compacto que tinha Rolling Hills como Lado B. Foi produzida por Van Morrison. É uma resposta à música The dark end of the street. Foi regravada por Shakira e Jerry Garcia, entre outros artistas. Van Morrison cantou, tocou violão e gaita. Herbie Armstrong tocou guitarra. Pee Wee Ellis tocou sax tenor. David Hayes tocou baixo. Zakir Hussain tocou tabla. Mark Isham tocou trompete. Mark Jordan tocou piano. Katie Kissoon fez backing vocals. Toi Marcus tocou violino e Peter Van Hooke tocou bateria. Chegou ao número 63 no Reino Unido e número 48 na Holanda,

A letra:

From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road
We'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road

Little darlin', come with me
Won't you help me share my load
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road

Into this life we're born
Baby sometimes, sometimes we don't know why
And time seems to go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye

Let's enjoy it while we can (let's enjoy it while we can)
Won't you help me share my load (help me share my load)
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road

Into this life we're born
Baby sometimes, sometimes we don't know why
And time seems to go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye

Let's enjoy it while we can (let's enjoy it while we can)
Help me sing my song (help me sing my song)
Little darling come alone
To the bright side of the road

On the dark end of the street (on the dark end of the street)
To the bright side of the road (to the bright side of the road)
Little darling come alone
On the bright side of the road
On the dark end of the street (on the dark end of the street)
To the bright side of the road (to the bright sight of the road)
We'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road
Yeah, we'll be, we'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road

A versão de Van Morrison:

A versão de Shakira:

A versão de Jerry Garcia: