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Small Axe Lyrics
Total views: 1 time this week / Rating: 9.60/10 [5 votes]Album: Bob Marley: Grooving Kingston 12 - The JAD Masters 1970-1972 / Original Release Date: 2003Genre: ReggaeSong Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Small Axe
Bob Marley
Bob Marley
BOB MARLEY
Small Axe Lyrics
Why boasteth thyself, O evil men;
Playing smart and not being clever, oh no!
I say you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity, yeah, if a-so a-so.
But the goodness of Jah - Jah
Idureth for Iver.
If you are the big tree,
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down, (well sharp)
Ready to cut you down, oh yeah!
These are the words of my master
Keep on tellin' me - o-oh! - no weak heart shall prosper:
Oh no, they can't! Eh.
And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord,
Shall fall in it - shall fall in it.
Whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall bury in it - shall bury in it.
If you are the big tree,
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down,
Ready to cut you down.
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[Instrumental break]
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Whosoever diggeth the pit
Shall fall in it - fall in it, eh!
Whosoever diggeth the pit
Shall bury in it - shall bury in it.
If you are the big tree,
We have a small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
Sharpened to cut you down.
If you are the big tree,
Let me tell you this: we are the small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
Sharpened to cut you down.
If you have a big tree ... [fadeout]
Playing smart and not being clever, oh no!
I say you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity, yeah, if a-so a-so.
But the goodness of Jah - Jah
Idureth for Iver.
If you are the big tree,
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down, (well sharp)
Ready to cut you down, oh yeah!
These are the words of my master
Keep on tellin' me - o-oh! - no weak heart shall prosper:
Oh no, they can't! Eh.
And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord,
Shall fall in it - shall fall in it.
Whosoever diggeth a pit
Shall bury in it - shall bury in it.
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down,
Ready to cut you down.
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[Instrumental break]
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Whosoever diggeth the pit
Shall fall in it - fall in it, eh!
Whosoever diggeth the pit
Shall bury in it - shall bury in it.
If you are the big tree,
We have a small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
Sharpened to cut you down.
If you are the big tree,
Let me tell you this: we are the small axe
Ready to cut you down, (well sharp)
Sharpened to cut you down.
If you have a big tree ... [fadeout]
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Songwriter(s): Bob Marley
Record Label(s): 2003 Universal Music International
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Meaning to "Small Axe" song lyrics (5 meanings)
LaD October 11, 2012-15:32
Y'all are wrong, Big Tree was the record label that screw Bob over. He was singing about how he was gonna cut them down. Go watch the biography on him named Marley.
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Y'all are wrong, Big Tree was the record label that screw Bob over. He was singing about how he was gonna cut them down. Go watch the biography on him named Marley.
Greg June 18, 2012-12:25
This song is about the company Big Tree Records, which was the island's dictatorial record company. Along with more poetic meanings; the main meaning is about the other companies victory against them.
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This song is about the company Big Tree Records, which was the island's dictatorial record company. Along with more poetic meanings; the main meaning is about the other companies victory against them.
Actually... July 29, 2011-12:45
The song is not about Africa, it is about the triumph of Rastafari over Babylon, a reoccuring theme in Marley's work. The lyrics are mainly derived from Psalms and Proverbs. Bob read the Bible.
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The song is not about Africa, it is about the triumph of Rastafari over Babylon, a reoccuring theme in Marley's work. The lyrics are mainly derived from Psalms and Proverbs. Bob read the Bible.
emperorneutral September 10, 2009-14:53
bob really talked about the sufferer and to be frank he had africa at heart.this song shows that if the oppressor thinks he is a big tree africa(the axe) is gonna cut him down..he is a true africanist
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bob really talked about the sufferer and to be frank he had africa at heart.this song shows that if the oppressor thinks he is a big tree africa(the axe) is gonna cut him down..he is a true africanist
This song is about empires falling they are the big tree and we tiny little ants are small axes cutting them down.this poem is a work of art ready to explode on the ear of any human it is a treasure that must be kept in our hearts