Bob Marley

[Triple-o]

I recently stumbled across a song by a Jamaican song writer Vincent Ford. A song made famous by Bob Marley “No Women No Cry.” (women don’t cry) Someone  in session 5 might enjoy playing this song. I would suggest the version in the book “100 greatest songs of rock and roll”. 
 

I didn’t know much about Marley or how he died. The song gives a few hints,When he was a teenager he lived in “government yard” a public housing project. In a neighborhood called Trench Town. I believe it was an old slave plantation named after its master.

He belonged to a cult “Rastafarianism” and one of its sacraments was to smoke the “wisdom weed” since it was one of the herbs God gave man.The cult also could have contributed to his death. He died from a melanoma (ALM) that appeared as a dark spot under his big toe nail. Because of his beliefs he refused to have the toe amputated. It was a metastatic cancer and spread to his brain,  in 1981 he passed. Caught early it might have been treated, but it was a rare form of cancer and the dark spot probably didn’t appear serious to him early on.

He was buried with his guitar in Nine Mile Jamaica.