Song
Redemption Song
Hip Hop
3:47
BPM
131
Key
D#m
3/4
Trojan Records
ISRC: JMRC2302036
Plays
30.8K
Loves
2.6K
Released
2025
Story behind the song
Written in one sitting after a late-night studio session in Kingston. The bassline came first — Family Man laid down four bars and the whole song built itself around that groove. The lyrics took two more weeks of refinement before they felt right.
Writing
- Songwriter
- Bob Marley
- Co-writer
- David Madden
Production
- Producer
- Lee "Scratch" Perry
- Co-producer
- Errol Brown
Performance
- Bass
- David Madden
- Keys
- Aston "Family Man" Barrett
- Drums
- Nambo Robinson
- Lead vocals
- Bob Marley
- Backing vocals
- Tyrone Downie
Engineering
- Mixed by
- Carlton "Santa" Davis
- Mastered by
- Cleveland "Clevie" Browne
[Verse] I remember the days when the radio played Nothing but the sweetest sounds, the songs they made Now the youths them ask me what the music meant I tell them every chord was time well spent [Chorus] The roots are deep, the roots are strong We carry them in every song The roots are deep, the roots are true They passing through me, passing through you [Bridge] From Trench Town to Tottenham, the message is the same Love, equality, and rising above the pain [Chorus]
Energy
77%
Danceability
40%
Positivity
41%
Acoustic
34%
Instrumental
17%
Live feel
20%
Speechy
3%
- ISRC
- JMRC2302036
- ISWC
- T-710.036.813-2
- UPC
- 0884385002944
- Catalog number
- TGR-2019-199
- Label
- Trojan Records
- Publisher
- Tuff Gong Publishing
- Recording studio
- Mixing Lab, Kingston, Jamaica
- Recording date
- March 22, 2021
- ℗ line
- ℗ 2024 Trojan Records
- © line
- © 2020 Tuff Gong Publishing
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