No Woman, No Cry

No Woman, No Cry is a reggae ballad of Bob Marley. It is famous for the seven-minute concert recording on the Live published in 1975! Album. It was first published in 1974 on the album Natty Dread by Bob Marley & the Wailers.

The title is written in Jamaican Creole and in English means "No, woman, do not cry", or " No, woman, no cry ".

Composition

Text and music, as with some other compositions, Bob Marley together with his childhood friend Vincent Ford ( "Tata "; 1940-2008 ) attributed. Both were a common representation, according to one evening in Trenchtown, a neighborhood of the Jamaican capital, in the courtyard of Tata's soup kitchen, which provided for hungry teenagers eating. A neighboring couple had an argument in which the wines of the wife ( Puncie Saunders ) was audible to the courtyard. As a consolation Marley and Ford composed the following night in the kitchen, he had learned to play the guitar in the Marley, No Woman, No Cry.

The album version has a significantly higher beat than the known live version; Moreover, the key of the live version of C sharp major, that of the album version and other live recordings is usually C major. By 2005, only the original version of Marley appeared on 24 different LPs and samplers.

Reception

The music magazine Rolling Stone listed the song in November 2004 in its list of the 500 best songs of all time at number 37

Cover

There are cover versions of Sublime, Charlie Hunter, Rancid, Joan Baez, Bettina Wegner, Jimmy Cliff, Xavier Rudd, Jimmy Buffett, Boney M., ZSK, Hugh Masekela, Patrice, Wizo, NOFX, JBO, Sean Kingston and many more. London Beat 1991 had a minor chart hit with the song.

Wyclef Jean wrote the lyrics to his hip- hop band The Fugees and establishes a reference to his life in Haiti. Your version was the most commercially successful to date, peaking in 1996, place 2 in the British charts.