Get Up, Stand Up

Membre des Wailers avec Bob Marley et Bunny Livingstone (Bunny Wailer), Peter Tosh fût un rastaman fortement engagé contre Babylone (le système).

Pratiquant, arrogant et coléreux, Peter trainait une mauvaise réputation. L'étiquette de bad boy des Wailers lui collait à la peau et il entretenait bien cette image. Il dénonçait la corruption, le mensonge et toutes les inégalités. La véhémence de ses propos, ses rapports avec la presse et son tempérament en font l'image contraire de Bob Marley.

Cependant, cela n'empêcha pas à ces 2 légendes du reggae de rester amis suite à la séparation du groupe en 1974. Par la suite, Peter Tosh partira en tournée avec les Rolling Stone à travers les USA et l'Europe.

Suite à cela, la carrière solo de l'artiste est lancée, et Peter devient alors une machine à produire des hits, enchaînant les concerts en Jamaïque et ailleurs dans le monde.

Il meurt assassiné à son domicile le 11 Septembre 1987. Les circonstances du mobile de l'assassinat resteront floues.


Lors de sa carrière, Peter Tosh aura entre autre chanté "Get Up, Stand Up" dans son album Equal Rights (1977), chanson mondialement connue grâce à Bob Marley.

Voici la version de Peter Tosh.






Peter Tosh - Get Up, Stand Up



Get up, stand up
stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up
don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up
stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up
don't give up for the fight

You preacher man don't tell me
heaven is under the earth
You are duppy, and you don't know
what life is really worth
It's not all that glitter is gold
and half the story has never been told
So now we see the light
we gonna stand up for our rights

come on Get up, stand up, brothers
stand up for your rights
come on Get up, stand up, sisters
don't give up the fight
I'm begging you to get up, stand up
stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up
I said don't give up for the fight

'cause you know most people think
a great god will come from the skies
and take away every little thing
and left everybody dry
but if you know what life is worth
you will look for yours right here on earth
And now we see the light
we gonna stand up for our rights

come on get up, stand up, don't make them puss you 'round
stand up for your rights
come on, brothers get up, stand up, be brave now
don't give up the fight
I say get up, stand up
stand up for your rights, don't let them hold you down
Get up, stand up
don't give up for the fight

you sick and tired of this game of tricknology
humbly asking Jesus for his mercy
we know, we know and we understand
Almighty JAH is a living man
You fool some people some times
but you can't fool all the people all the time
And now we see the light
we gonna stand up for our rights

come on get up, stand up
stand up for your rights
..., get up, stand up
I say don't give up the fight
don't let them ....
I say get up, stand up
stand up for your rights
..... get up, stand up
don't give up for your fight