Buffalo Soldier (song)

Buffalo Soldier is a song by Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley, whose posthumously on albums Confrontation (1983) and Legend ( 1984) published. The key of the song is in A major, he takes a little more than four minutes. Buffalo Soldier reached the charts in several countries, eg in Austria (No. 14 ) and Norway ( 10th place ).

Buffalo Soldier takes on the history of the Buffalo Soldiers. Here Marley particularly emphasizes the absurdity of the fact that the newly freed former slaves were used to kill Indians and to market and were also used for other U.S. invasions, although their ancestors had been forcibly abducted from their homes even to America.

It is repetitively sung the removal from Africa and the import to America; Finally detail Marley 's arrival to San Juan and finally in his own homeland, Jamaica.

In contrast to his previous hits the Wailers (Bob Marley's band ) were not conducted in this song by Marley himself, since he died before the completion of the song, leaving behind only different length demos of the songs. So they wrote the instrument tracks as they thought it would also make as Marley. For this reason, there are also several versions of Buffalo Soldier.