No Woman, No Cry

"No Woman, No Cry" was a song written by Bob Marley although the songwriter credits indicate "V. Ford". V Ford was Vincent Ford who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, the ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, who helped Marley out when he was very poor. The royalty checks received by Ford ensured the survival and continual running of his soup kitchen.

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Bob Marley - Soup kitchen - Trenchtown - Ghetto - Kingston, Jamaica

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The song was made famous by Bob Marley and the Wailers' 1975 album Live!, which featured this song as performed in concert at the London Lyceum. It was also on the album Natty Dread. It has since been covered several times, including by American punk rockers Rancid, by Sublime, singer-songwriters Joan Baez and Xavier Rudd, pop guitarist Jimmy Buffett and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, while Wyclef Jean reworked the lyrics for his hip hop crew The Fugees to relate to his life in Haiti.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers - 1975 - Album - Live! - Natty Dread - Covered - Rancid - Sublime - Joan Baez - Xavier Rudd - Jimmy Buffett - Hugh Masekela - Wyclef Jean - The Fugees - Haiti

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The ska punk band are the only band to ever have officially been given permission by the Marley family to change the lyrics, in their cover on the album Room For Abuse.

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Ska punk - [spunge] - Room For Abuse

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Notably the title is a way of comforting in Jamaica, and not to be taken in the misogynistic sense "happy to be without a woman".

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