Song
Slavery Days
Calypso
4:38
BPM
98
Key
A
4/4
VP Records
ISRC: JMRC2302204
Plays
20.2K
Loves
808
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.
Press
""Slavery Days" sits comfortably alongside the artist's best work — confident, restrained, deeply danceable.
""Slavery Days" is exactly the kind of song that reminds you why this music endures — vocal conviction over a riddim built to last.
Writing
- Songwriter
- Burning Spear
Production
- Producer
- Errol Brown
Performance
- Guitar
- Mikey Chung
- Drums
- Dean Fraser
- Percussion
- Carlton Barrett
- Keys
- David Madden
- Lead vocals
- Burning Spear
- Backing vocals
- Earl "Wya" Lindo
Engineering
- Mixed by
- Scientist
- Mastered by
- Carlton "Santa" Davis
[Intro] Mmm... yeah... uh-huh [Verse 1] Silver moon over the harbour wall Sitting here, hearing your sweet name call You used to be the rhythm of my heart Now the riddim just fall apart [Chorus] Come back to me, sweet love, come back to me Come back to me, sweet love, can't you see Every night I'm waiting by the candlelight Hoping you'll return to me tonight [Verse 2] The sound system playing our song And I'm wondering where it all went wrong Maybe time will heal what we let break Maybe morning brings what evening takes
Energy
86%
Danceability
41%
Positivity
71%
Acoustic
21%
Instrumental
36%
Live feel
12%
Speechy
10%
- ISRC
- JMRC2302204
- ISWC
- T-517.256.354-2
- UPC
- 0884385002757
- Catalog number
- TGR-2019-211
- Label
- VP Records
- Publisher
- Tuff Gong Publishing
- Recording studio
- Anchor Recording, Kingston, Jamaica
- Recording date
- June 3, 2024
- ℗ line
- ℗ 2022 VP Records
- © line
- © 2025 Tuff Gong Publishing
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