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ON ISLAND: LIVE in NANTUCKET

by Marc Albanese

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EASY COME EASY GO 1 easy come, gotta walk before you run easy go, gotta live it to know it easy living, it comes with wisdom got to ease down my people, you gotta get your biz done and sing easy come easy go, good life sweet life easy come easy go, sweet precious life easy come easy go, good time sweet time easy come easy go, sweet precious time 2 easy come, gotta look before you run easy go, you gotta grab before it's done this short time that, we are together got to make it nice, you got to love one another and sing easy come easy go, in a blink of an eye easy come easy go, in a fraction of time easy come easy go, good time sweet time easy come easy go, sweet precious life when the rain start coming down and your troubles they soak you down now then you got ask yourself which path shall I travel down life is a series of decisions all with cause and all with reaction you choose you lose, you choose you win the answer to every question is easy come easy go easy come easy go easy come easy go, good time sweet life easy come easy go, sweet precious life easy come, you gotta walk before you run easy go, gotta grab before it's done done done done done easy come easy go, in a blink of an eye easy come easy go, in a fraction of time easy come easy go, good time sweet time easy come easy go
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Way Seen 04:26
WAY SEEN 1 when you woke up this morning I have no idea what you see you see you have your life I be what I can be well the way that I see it, thing will change and the way that this life is, won't remain the same and the way that you see it, carry much more weight than than the way that I see it, everything will change 2 when you close your eyes tonight sleep don't forget those who cannot eat for whatever reason you come up with not to act there's a better one around any corner underneath your hat well the way that I see it, thing will change and the way that this life is, won't remain the same and the way that you see it, carry much more weight than than the way that I see it, everything will change 3 hold onto what you know is good and true don't let any of it slip away from you we have reason to be optimistic as long as we are founded realistically, evidently well the way that I see it, everything will change and the way that this life is, won't remain the same and the way that you see it, carry much more weight than than the way that I see it, everything will change 4 as the morning breaks through daylight, so shall we rise as the moonlight breaks through darkness, so shall we shine as the needs of our people are tended to, this will be read as the rainfall cures a droughtful season, we will be fed it's in the way that you see, is in the way it's in the way that you feel it, is in the way it's in the way that you understand it, is in the way is the way that it is, in the way seen
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War Drum 05:13
WAR DRUM beatin' on your war drum hoping that the war will come what in the hell you get done when you're beatin' on the war drum 1 in every town, and county, state and city every cultural municipality everybody just trying to be free from the war turnin' our children into memory think about what adore, fight against what you abhor everybody's trying to get more now at dawn the wolf is knocking at your door the wolf, the wolf, the wolf is at your door time is running out for sure push, push, push us into war God know we don't need another killing floor beatin' on your war drum won't let the evil run won't cower to your wisdom won't listen to your war drum beatin' on your war drum hoping that the war will come what in the hell you get done when you're beatin on the war drum 2 you can't tell us why we got to drop the bomb compromise our advantage are we right or wrong so sad we got to sing this song when the whole damn world it won't get along there's some things that they just ain't telling us like who it's for and who gets the pay off paid with the blood of laymen and children when we miss our mark our boys carry a gun beatin' on your war drum hoping that the war will come what in the hell you get done when you're beatin on the war drum beatin' on your war drum won't let the evil run won't cower to your wisdom won't listen to your war drum biddy bye, bye, you got to say ah say goodbye never, never see the man alive, biddy say goodbye biddy bye, bye, bye, you got to say goodbye when the war drum go and drop it down you got to say goodbye we ah go say ah say goodbye, last time I see the man alive we got to say goodbye, you got to say goodbye when you drop the war drum, got to got to say goodbye biddy bye, bye, biddy bye, bye, you got to say goodbye lord have mercy, I'm oh gonna say goodbye last time you gonna see the man alive I say ya you got to say I'm gonna hold him tight now say goodbye biddy bye, bye, bye, you got to got to say goodbye when you want to drop the bomb say when the war drum a sound then you got to run around lord me say 3 repeat first verse/chorus
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Go My Way 04:47
GO MY WAY 1 When will the weather go my way I want a nice and sunny day when will the market go my way I wanna step up to the counter and get paid when will that girl she look my way I wanted her in the worst kind of way why does it come to me when I say why won't anything go my way It's nothing, mister occifer just a figment of your imagination it's not mine, mister officer 'cause I know all about the legislation it ain't nothing, mister officer you don't see a baggy clinging to my leg it's not mine, mister officer cause mine gots the hairs that are red hairs that are red 2 When can I get out of jail can't stand the smell and I want a beer the screams form the guy next door to me is the only thing I can hear it was a good thing she was not home when I used my dime to make my one phone call she might have not called up my lawyer lying in bed reading Tom Sawyer hey bro, call my lawyer It's nothing, mister occifer just a figment of your imagination it's not mine, mister officer 'cause I know all about your legislation it ain't nothing, mister officer you don't see a baggy clinging to my leg it's not mine, mister officer 'cause mine gots the hairs that are red hairs that are red, hairs that are red won't go my way, go my way, go my way you got to go my way, go my way, go my way ah wan go my way, go my way, go my way you got to go my way, go my way, go my way listen up, mister occifer you can't put me away me wan fe stay and stay and play until the break a day but if you put me away they can't go and play you got to go my way man you can't put me away ah wan go my way, go my way, go my way ah want you go my way, go my way, go my way you got to go my way, go my way, go my way ah want you go my way, go my way, go my way 3 When will the weather go my way I want a nice and windless night it's kind of a sad thing to have to say all them jays I won't get to light light my fire
5.
Been Up 04:21
BEEN UP I been up, I been down, I been up I been up, I been down, I been up 1 Living life out of a paper cup sometimes I gotta wonder what's up cause when life fills it to the rim then I gotta decide whether to sink or swim I been up, I been down, I been up I been up, I been down, I been up 2 I been high in ecstasy I felt the depths of misery don't want nobody to interrupt me the day I find out how to be free I been up, I been down, I been up I been up, I been down, I been up take my cup, lift it up, and drink up I been up, I been down, I been up 3 sometimes I cry, sometimes I laugh yeah this day it might be my last everybody knows anything can happen when the future is the present and the present the past and if I keep my spirits up sometimes and miracle can happen and if we keep our spirits up a miracle can happen we been up, we been down, we been up we been up, we been down, we been up take our cup, lift it up, and drink up we been up, we been down, we been up deja vu all over and over lost path in a jungle becomes a circle when you think you recognize the experience then you got to stop and smell, feel the essence I been up, I been down, I been up, I been down, I been down, I been out, here I go again I been up, I been down, I been down, I been out, I been up, I been down, and then I try again I been up, I been down, I been up I been up, I been down, I been up take my cup, lift it up, and drink up I been up, I been down, I been up
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Pon De One 03:14
PON DE ONE 1 one love, a now a put you to the test one heart, a beat in every man chest one whole, not just some but including all the rest one part, time we a go try an do we best one mind, you think and therefore you are one soul, good time vibe feeling take you far one religion, I an I revolve around a star one control, oh we never crash in Jah Jah car why oh, one people under the sun do it pon de one, an we a go drop it pon de one why oh, fight until the battle it won do it pon de one, so we all can have a lickle fun 2 one of many, so many individual one earth, mama gaia give we rich soil to till one people, same needs are indivisible one worth, to pay for it all we are all fully capable one person, man and woman and child one race, every look and each and every style one dream, every hope and desire without disgrace, without fear, brimstone a go fire why oh, one people under the sun do it pon de one, an we a go drop it pon de one why oh, fight until the battle it won do it pon de one, so we all can have a lickle fun 3 one language, so it is fully understood one speech, in a universal neighborhood one learn, they listen to everything you say what one teach, then they a go do it the same way one time, no reset or rewind one day, to all action, deep unkind one direction, never assume what you will find one way, in this here search for mankind why oh, one people under the sun do it pon de one, yeah we a go drop it pon de one why oh, one people fight until the battle it won do it pon de one, then we a go have a lickle fun sing why oh, one people under the sun do it pon de one, yeah we a go do it till it's done why oh, one people happy under the sun do it pon de one, yeah we a go jump a lickle fun sing why oh, do it pon de one why oh, do it pon de one
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Roxbury 04:38
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about

"Daddy Marc" sang, rapped and played guitar with Boston's funky reggae band One People for 13 years. This set captures some peak energy and grooves of their live show, recorded live off the stage June 2-3, 2003 at the Chicken Box nightclub in Nantucket MA. The first six songs are Marc originals, the seventh is a local poets words set to music and it closes with two iconic Marley jams.

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released September 1, 2003

Marc Albanese - vocals, guitar
Mark Jayapranasanna - vocals, guitar
Ras Gregory Cummings - vocals, keys
Malcolm Stuckey - vocals, bass
Nori Ikegami - drums
Recorded live by Jonathan Leary
Mixed, mastered, additional tracking by Tom Waltz
Live sound by Joel Finn
Cover art by Packy Norton

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