BUNNY WAILER - Serious Thing (Liberation)

SERIOUS THING
The Way the people are living now a days,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
Can't get no work can't get no pay,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
The little children they can't go to school,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
Teachers demonstrating for their salary,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,

To come home to find your children out of school
and on the streets idling
Is a very serious thing,
This arises from a situation where instead of
The teachers are in the schools teaching,
they are on the Streets demonstrating,
And that's a very serious thing.

So much wars and famine on the land,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
Yet we are making more war plans,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
There's no attention on the youths now a days,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
No future plans or opportunities,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing.

The devastating memory of Hiroshima has not
quenched the bloody thirst of satan,
And thats a very serious thing,
His future plans are to devour Jah children
as eats up bread and
create instead the dawn of the dead
Serious thing.

In town and country it's the same old cry,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
Brothers and sisters I'm telling you no lie,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
Sometimes you'd wonder if you're wrong or right,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
If you've got to stand up or fight,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,.

The struggle for the blackman's liberty against
the vicious apartheid system of South Africa,
is a very serious thing,
And if the weapon of resistance is in the hand
of the oppressed against the oppressors,
Then this also is a very serious thing.

Can't pay my bills can't pay my rent,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
Food is essential but I aint got a cent
let me tell you it's a serious thing,
So much people begging in the Streets,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
Some are picking up to have a bite to eat,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing.

If in the nick-a-time you come home find,
The landlords bailliff revealing you of all your
possessions,
Then this could be a very serious thing,
For your table or for your chair you could
find a spare but to take your bed away,
Is a very serious thing,
To go to your brother to ask for a loan only
To realise that he was heading for your home,
Is a very serious thing,
Or to de in a position where your daily bread
Comes only from the garbage,
Is a very serious thing,

Tom, Dick and Harry they are complaining oh yea,
They are sying it's a serious thing,
About the condition they are living in, oh yea,
They bare saying it's a serious thing,
So much in the prison living in one cell,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing,
Much mure to join in in that smell,
Let me tell you it's a serious thing.

To be confined to a cell which like a cesspool
bears a smell, it's a very , very serious thing,
To be stripped of all your rights, sanity
and dignity,
It's a very, very serious thing,
To be chained and shackled and thrown in a
dungeon,
It's a very, very serious thing,
It's like working on a chain-gang but
It's more than that, iIt's a serious thing,
To feel like you ain't got no liberation,
Is a very, very serious thing.

SONGS WRITTEN BY NEVILLE LIVINGSTON
PUBLISHED BY SOLOMONIC MUSIC 1987-88
PRODUCED, PERFORMED, ARRANGED AND DIRECTED BY BUNNY
WAILER FOR SOLOMONIC PRODUCTIONS ° 1987-88
Recorded at: DYNAMIC SOUNDS RECORDING STUDIOS
Engineer: SYL MORRIS
Mixed at: MIXING LAB STUDIOS KINGSTON, JA
Mixed by: CARL PETERSON
MUSICIANS
Drums: Carlton Davis, Lincoln Scott & Sly Dunbar
Bass: Robbie Shakespeare, Errol Carter & Daniel Thompson
Rhythm Guitar: Erick Lamont, Earl 'Chinna' Smith
Lead Guitar: Dwight Pinkney & Cat Coore
Keyboards: 'Red Fox' Stewart, Tony Asher & Keith Sterling
Horns: Barrington Bailey, Bobby Ellis, H. Bennet & Johnny Moore
Percussions: B. Wailer, Hugh 'Sticky' Thompson & Harry T. Powell
Lead Vocals: B. Wailer
Backing Vocals: "PSALMS" (vocal group), & B. Wailer

[gilesfamily]

The talent that ran through the original 3 Wailers is absolutely legendary. To have 3 artists like that is a blessing. R.I.P. Bob, Peter & Bunny

[kristobalthompson]

My Grandfather used sang this to me, he passed on the same year as bunny wailer. Rest in wisdom to them.

[daviddavie]

Serious sounds. Bunny brings out the soul in music.

[lauranicholls]

You’ll be greatly missed. Bunny😢😢😢🥕🥕🥕❤️💛💚❤️💛💚❤️💛💚❤️💛💚

[joroboam]

CRUCIAL VIBES ROYAL!! CLEANLINESS OF HEARTS AND HANDS CHAAA

[gilesfamily]

One of my favourite songs from this legend

[malamabwalya]

So much people begging in the streets is a very.... serious thing

[visualexplorer]

most excellent and timely message in 2013.

[lawrencenjawe]

The very track I heard off the liberation album in 90..and was marked by it.

[patrickmitchell]

Now I found it let me tell I’ve been looking for this for years and I always knew it was bunny just smoked to much it’s a serious thing