Sinéad O’Connor

Released: October 4, 2005

Songwriter: Burning Spear

Producer: Sly & Robbie

Marcus garvey's words come to pass
Marcus garvey's words come to pass
Can't get no food to eat
Can't get no money to spend, wo-oo-oo
Can't get no food to eat
Can't get no money to spend, woo-oo-oo
Come, little one and let me do what i can do for you
And you and you alone
Come, little one, wo-oo-oo
Let me do what i can do for you and you alone, woo-oo-oo
He who knows the right thing
And do it not
Shall be spanked with many stripes
Weeping and wailing and moaning
You've got yourself to blame, i tell you
Do right do right do right do right do right
Tell you to do right, woo-oo-oo
Beg you to do right, woo -oo- oo
Where is bagawire, he's nowhere to be found
He can't be found
First betrayer who gave away marcus garvey
Son of satan, first prophesy
Catch them, garvey old
Catch them garvey, catch them woo-oo-oo
Hold them marcus, hold them woo-oo-oo
Marcus garvey, marcus woo-oo-oo

Sinéad O'Connor (who goes by Shuhada' Sadaqat in her private life) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 80s with her album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares to You” in 1990.

O'Connor was discovered in 1985 when Nigel Grainge of Ensign Records saw her band Ton Ton Macoute perform. Although he was not fond of the band’s music, he was impressed by O'Connor’s ‘amazing voice’. Grainge had O'Connor record four songs with Karl Wallinger (World Party) and signed her to his label. O'Connor’s first single was the song “Heroine” which she co-wrote with U2’s guitarist The Edge for the film Captive.

Her debut album The Lion and the Cobra was a sensation when it was released in 1987, reaching gold record status and earning a Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy nomination. O'Connor’s debut single “Troy” charted in The Netherlands and Belgium, and “Mandinka”, released in late 1987, cracked the top 20 in the UK and top 30 in three other European countries, helping her album chart well in Europe. Spin Magazine described the album as a “remarkable, still-spine-tingling first record”.

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