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 / Another song 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 aside and look? / Some say it’s just a part of it / We’ve got to fulfill the Book

Won’t you help to sing / Another song 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 aside and look? / Some say it’s just a part of it / We’ve got to fulfill the Book / Won’t you help to sing / Another song of freedom? / ’Cause all I ever had / Redemption songs / Redemption songs

[By Bob Marley – Edward Francis Rimbault – Edwin R. Hawkins – Philipp Doddridge © Sony / ATV Music Publishing LLC., 1980]