Eddie Vedder

Featuring: Beyoncé

Songwriter: Bob Marley

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand outside and look
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

(Guitar break)

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a-the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfil the book

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom

Edward Louis Severson III (better known as Eddie Vedder) was born December 23, 1964, in Evanston, Illinois.

He began getting into music at the age of 12 after being gifted a guitar from his mother. He joined various bands in his 20’s including Surf and Destroy, The Butts, Indian Style, and Bad Radio.

In 1990, Jack Irons from the Red Hot Chili Peppers handed Eddie a demo tape from a band in Seattle called Pearl Jam that was looking for a lead singer. Eddie wrote and recorded three songs which later became the bands “Alive”, “Once”, and “Footsteps”. He sent the tapes to Seattle and they immediately invited him for an audition.

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