Redemption Song – Rihanna (Hope For Haiti Now Campaing)  Lyrics

February 1, 2010

Album: Hope for Haiti Now
Genre:Folk rock
Writer: Bob Marley
Released: January, 2010

 

Last January 20th Rihanna performed this song for the Hope for Haiti Now campaing. The album has sold more than 170,000 copies during its first week of release. This material has the collaboration of other singers like: Alicia Keys, Bruce Springstee, Steve Wonder Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Beyoncé, Sheryl Crow, John Legen and Taylor Swift. Redemption Song was original released by Bob Marley who also wrote it in 1980. He included it in his album Uprising. This not the first time the single has been used as a cover. In fact, Rihanna had already used it in her 2006 Tour. Currently you can donate to its cause through the webeste hopeforhaitinow.org.



Redemption Song - Rihanna (Hope For Haiti Now Campaing)

Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly

Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
‘Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of it
We’ve got to fulfill the book

Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
‘Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it’s just a part of it
We’ve got to fulfill the book

Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs
All I ever had
Redemption songs
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom







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