Get Up, Stand Up

Get Up, Stand Up ( to German as " Arise, you oppose " ) is a song, jointly composed by the Jamaican reggae musicians Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, both founding members of the Wailers.

It was released on the album Burnin ' (1973 ) with the length of a little more than three minutes. As a result, the song at every concert of the Wailers and was later played by Marley alone usually towards the end of the show. Also Tosh, who sings the third verse on the album version, played Get Up, Stand Up by the separation of the Wailers at his concerts. In Marley's live album Live! ( 1975) is to find a live recording of the song. The Studio Shot, however, has the key of C minor, live versions of the song are continuous in B minor.

After Peter Tosh had separated from the Wailers, he took for his solo album Equal Rights (1976 ) a new version with a slightly different text; this version has the key of G minor and takes about three and a half minutes. A live recording can be found on Tosh's live album Captured Live (1984). Also, live versions have the key of G minor. Tosh had sung in 1978 after the separation of Marley again on a surprise appearance at Marley's concert in Burbank, California, with him in a duet song.

Get Up, Stand Up is also the last song Marley ever sang at a performance; as happened on September 23, 1980 at the Stanley Theater (now the Benedum Center ) in Pittsburgh.

The music magazine Rolling Stone listed the song in November 2004 in its list of the 500 best songs of all time at number 296

The song was played at the worldwide Live 8 concerts in July 2005 from Marley's wife Rita Marley, and their son, Stephen Marley, along with the Black Eyed Peas in Philadelphia. Also on concerts for the benefit of Amnesty International, is often played, such as on 10 December 1998 in Paris, sung by Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman and Youssou N'Dour.

In the 2000s, Eric Burdon used a portion of the song and built it into his rap song " Tobacco Road ". One of these versions is included on his live album " Athens Traffic Live ".