Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Israelites (Official Lyrics Video)

[@kelsowins]

I ran for the radio when this came on in 1969, just 18 and I could actually run then! 73 now, still love this song! Thank you, Mr. Dekker.

[@stephanieforbes2490]

me too

[@johnbkk2274]

@@stephanieforbes2490 and me

[@lovoyewatt4775]

Jamaica's first international super star

[@Andrew-rl9gs]

I could be wrong,but I think Millie Small was a few years before Desmond.

[@azillliasmith2734]

⁠@@Andrew-rl9gs yes I was just going to post the same my Mam loved Millie's singing 😊 ❤ bless them both x

[@TomiAdewoleAdetom]

The Children of God, scattered abroad. Lovely song, indeed.

[@winstonsimon7333]

I love this song and especially love the concept of the video. Who listening in 2024

[@Holothurion]

Here! 🙋🏻‍♂️ Greetings from Mexico City. 🙂🇲🇽

[@gardensofthegods]

​​​​​@@Holothurion CHEERS from DALLAS GOD IS GOOD 💜 ❤ 💜 ❤ 💜 ❤

[@mpemberton7760]

American expat in Italy...first heard "Israelites" on the radio in 1968!

[@LiseR-cu4dv]

I am! From UK. Always loved this song from when I was 16. Now 69, still good. Just too short (song, not me).😆

[@diannecraven]

Me on the beach in Rhodes Greece ❤

[@andrewbull3537]

This is how music should sound , when it starts you smile and dance !!!!! , even if you dance bad ....YOU DANCE !!!!! thanks mr dekker 👍 Peace out ✌

[@guidosarducci1943]

When it comes to music, If you can not sing or play, you owe it to the world to Dance. Even if you are Jack the Idiot Dunce. Find The Kinks, Schoolboys in Disgrace, or Olympian Raygunn.

[@blastradius7193]

Actually the worse you dance the better

[@guidosarducci1943]

Jack the Idiot Dunce here & I AGREE

[@diannecraven]

Right on bro !❤❤

[@californiadreaming9216]

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow citizens of Jamaica, let us all please stand for the national anthem.

[@theoutlawking9123]

No joke, as a Fellow Jamaican living in Florida, this SHOULD be our National Anthem back home!

[@californiadreaming9216]

@@theoutlawking9123 an Jah love is pure and clean .

[@theoutlawking9123]

@@californiadreaming9216 Bless up youth!

[@mikeday2393]

love this!!!!

[@muteehall]

Hey don't forget your brothers and Sister from America we are all Israelites....yall just got here first. shalom

[@Lesterb602]

I’m 70 and for reason this song, which I havnt heard for 55 years popped into my head.so I hopped on utube and there it was. Thanks🤩

[@zeeboom1]

Same age as you and it popped into my head tonight.

[@jaminova_1969]

I'm a bit younger than you 56, but I haven't heard this song since I was small. They used to play it every-morning on the AM radio!

[@ShabaniMan]

Desmond Dekker lived in cricklewood lane and I remember knocking on his door, his wife or girlfriend answered and she was very nice and friendly to us children who was about 8 year old at the time . She gave us all signed photos of a smiling Desmond. He drove a mustard coloured sunbeam rapier . Fantastic days of childhood. 😊.

[@genevievedolan1288]

@@ShabaniMan cricklewood!! ❤️

[@LiseR-cu4dv]

Wow! Great memory to have.

[@KellyNhamburo-sy5du]

Wow thats so heartwarming ❤❤

[@blkdiamond7227]

we are the true israelites some of us have been knowing who we are. All praises THM YAH

[@chefbenardee1408]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JohnnyNowhere]

This was the first 45 rpm record I ever bought when I was twelve years old. I still have the record and I turn 65 in a few days. The song still kicks ass.

[@alanalabel5021]

me, too! :)

[@gerardjachymiak5822]

i am speechless

[@gerardjachymiak5822]

what advice would you give to a 17 year old that has no idea what to do in life

[@JohnnyNowhere]

@@gerardjachymiak5822 Who me? Seventeen is awfully young to be concerned about what to do. I was twenty-one and still had no clue, and was hitch-hiking through the Mid West. My cousin - she joined the USAF at seventeen and toured the world. I became a songwriter and she became a combat medic. I was playing bars while she was saving lives and getting shot at. You tell me - who made the right choice? We both did what we were drawn toward - and as different as our paths were - we both went into our chosen careers with all that we had. I ended up a third-tier songwriter, and she got shot by a Taliban sniper, became diabetic, and retired from the Air Force. Who made the right choice? We both did. Neither of us have regrets. That's all that matters. Find what you love, and kick it in the ass with all you have. Take chances. One day you, too, will be 65. Don't waste your life worrying. Life only lasts for a few moments. Carpe Diem.

[@stevengrisco7075]

Yes it does !!

[@donnajk4423]

I am 65 , and i have the 45 rpm single still. In great condition. Its a cream colour label. I played it non stop 😊

[@blancafontgarcia2258]

Yo también y tengo 72...❤

[@mustang251883]

First pleasant reggae rhythm song for me .1968

[@samthunders3611]

@@mustang251883 it's really what was to be known a Ska music not full on Bob Marley type reggae Pop Regge bit of rock pop mixed in that later after Punk started n So called new wave and Ska bands formed

[@John-ny2vw]

I'm a heavy metal fan , but love this track so much

[@christopherirving4558]

Brother, I love metal too,but Ska music is what I was raised on!

[@jamestownjamestown3115]

Song is more important now more than ever!!!!!

[@vivalaleta]

It's more ironic than ever.

[@jamestownjamestown3115]

Careful my friend . History repeats itself. Which side do you want to be on.

[@vivalaleta]

Israel is Nazi Germany this round. I'm always going to be on the side of the victim.@@jamestownjamestown3115

[@taylorwhite254]

straight up! Why are we donating and giving away so much money and resources to the israel or palestine conflict when we have so much trouble going on here, homeless people, people who are struggling to make ends meet, having relationship problems with LOVED ones because of lack of money, people thinking about robbing banks when they shouldn't ever have to think about that, people catching charges from stealing food from a grocery store, oh but pooooor israel and palestine, getting into a war over bullshit dumb reasons, lets give all weve got to those poooor people. Then It Mek starts playing

[@taylorwhite254]

@@vivalaleta it's dead on straight up

[@j.f.greaney]

I've loved this song for about 50 years, finally I know the lyrics! Thanks.

[@Vinnnne]

2nd verse??

[@gequitaroper1531]

Me too. I have never known what he was saying till I looked at the video. Lol.

[@shorelineboy]

@@gequitaroper1531 me too 😎

[@adeolaolatunji9324]

Me too. Back then I use to say " Breakfast". Lol

[@RedyPiper]

This is truly one of the greatest songs ever written

[@dannycostello1978]

Yes man.

[@cristinarossi7367]

Agreed!

[@RichardCristiani-n4v]

First time I heard this jam was from the movie drugstore cowboy. Awesome movie, by the way 😀

[@savesoilmovement5635]

SEE how god works I’m a white girl from London and with all the war lately I started singing this beautiful verse I heard it growing up 💯

[@omarmarquez9983]

Good

[@PamIsley314]

You're just a bundle of red flags aren't you?

[@justintuccimusic]

Research Jeremiah in Ireland 🇮🇪🕎

[@savesoilmovement5635]

@justintuccimusic . Thank you 🙏 I had no idea and having a mother and father originally from Galway this was even more interesting 🇮🇪☘️

[@Ceasorification]

Why does it matter that you are a white girl in London

[@lfr12335]

I'm 70 years old never knew the words but all of a sudden thought about this song a great song

[@GregGrabitz-c9w]

I heard the calling to?

[@michelleprie2854]

This song is so brilliant and unique... a timeless masterpiece in music history!!! 🎶👌🎶

[@ShunyamNiketana]

Yup. Love it then, love it now, 50 years hence.

[@alessandrosouzzasouzza7881]

Bom DIA My melody AXÉ Alessandro de Souza AXÉ BELA VIDA

[@michelleprie2854]

@@alessandrosouzzasouzza7881 warm greetings from Austria, dear Alessandro!!! 🌈🌞🌈

[@adamharlan8422]

Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know a trick to log back into an instagram account..? I was stupid lost the login password. I would love any help you can give me.

[@moseskendrick3965]

@Adam Harlan Instablaster ;)

[@richardpirrello6375]

A song that describes the famous quote by Henry David Thoreau "Most men lead quiet lives of desperation" the struggle and pain to feed his family.. it put Reggie on the map. Rest in Peace Mr. Dekker !

[@StephanieBartusis]

thoreau said that while his Mama carried him sandwiches so he could spend years making obvious statement.

[@radiomindchatter7994]

I heard this when it was released on Radio Veronica, static and all and it blew my 12 year old brain away. Perfect single always.

[@jjharris8341]

To have your mind blown by a song on the radio. Bliss. This song is cream of the crop.

[@xtinek2014]

Radio Veronica was great! (...I was an American high school student with a gap year studying in Sceveningen, and Radio Veronica helped my 14 year-ol brain as I did my homework! ... )

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

Desmond got screwed out of fame and fortune, and it's a true shame. It's nice that he got a little bit of fresh recognition in the 90s, but for the man who introduced reggae to the rest of us, more was owed.

[@mrs.i.one12]

That’s right! 💯

[@samthunders3611]

Ska really

[@LoriAllen-x8n]

Yet he’s listed as a top 5 Jamaican Reggae artist.

[@samthunders3611]

@@LoriAllen-x8n he was a 1st time hit maker doing Ska

[@danielelston7457]

I can relate to this song after going to a food bank this week. Lovely people, non judgemental. I'm a roofer and anyone can get down on their luck.

[@IcoOst]

take care and good luck

[@anonUK]

Except for Boris and co. They always seem to end up with even more money than they started with...

[@myboythom]

From one roofing family to another- May the force be with you!... it’s a tough time of year for work to be sure, here’s hoping you get back on your feet really soon👍🏻💪🏻🙏🏻

[@dazivicki4011]

Good luck with everything.

[@lisaellis9749]

Yes, I know what you mean, lot of folks, right here in Atlanta, work everyday, mason's and carpenters , rent here is skyhigh and taxes are crazy, Its either be on the street and be homeless, but at least you can feed yourself, or have a home or a room and starve, Crazy,can't but that is way of the world, Until Jesus comes back, we just to endure, Amen. Godbless everyone, and Happy! New Year! Stay safe! and warm!

[@lisablack8892]

This is a masterpiece by Mr. Desmond Dekker “Israelites”. 👑

[@paulsmith3994]

This music is rooted in the earth and send your spirit soaring. Yes Desmond!!!

[@user0237]

Love it and I'm 16, this isn't just old person music. Timeless

[@meow-sv7rc]

Me too!

[@plibob6361]

People don't make the best tunes anymore lol

[@jschuler53]

old person music... ha ha. Glad you like it.

[@SuPeRHeRoDuDe3124]

@@mjmjismatthew kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2axfWypftF0eKs

[@stephenbarrett2731]

Brilliant new generation, SKA RAGGA DANCE

[@berwick777]

Is it possible for a song to be so freakin’ good that it’s off-the-dial TOO good? If it is possible, well, this is it.

[@evanwolf6618]

I remember when this song was ON THE DIAL …. W.A.B.C. A.M. 77 …… in N.Y.C. way back in 1969 …… Of course my brother and I had to buy the 45 single so we could keep hearing it after it left the charts .

[@geoff6942]

Us white kids growing up in the UK '70s loved black music.

[@LindseyGlasman]

Yes!!! And still here for it in 2024.

[@brianofarrell4982]

play

[@brianofarrell4982]

120's y@ yet? that's their music , en FN joy , use 2 buttons on Ya , keybo` rd

[@jerryhall1314]

Israelites telling the story that only they can tell, listen to the lyrics.

[@stuartsoldate434]

A beautiful tribute to the human spirit, whatever sadness and pain were behind it. Truly a moving song forever.

[@ddave7026]

It's God's Grace

[@mrladnek5858]

Love from the island of Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean. Big up the real Israelites.

[@garthyahudahandrews8504]

Amen 🙏🏾🇬🇩

[@Perromedico]

Amen brother from Hershey Pa.

[@Santalumfiore]

❤️🙏🏻

[@thinblacknoodles]

FACTS

[@nataliesimpliciano2178]

9l9

[@barringtongraham1688]

Shalom Brothers and sisters... APTTMH

[@BCTGuitarPlayer]

We were listening to him before we ever heard Bob's name. I didn’t even know what reggae was. I just loved it bouncing around in my brain.

[@yeughk]

All Praise Is Due To The Most High!

[@elrando5981]

Snoop Dogg…?

[@ewanrennie3051]

I used to be a night club doorman in Edinburgh and I got to meet the man when he came to perform in our club during the festival. He put on a great concert.

[@anjou6497]

Wow!!!

[@HOTDANCEHITS]

legend

[@bertiesaurus]

Aye am there the now as a student. Would love for him to come rather than modern tunes

[@martinlee5604]

This amazing sound stormed the UK charts in April 1969, spending eight weeks in the Top 20: 5, 3, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 17. Reggae/ska had arrived big time!

[@troywright359]

So that's why this song was covered in the Vitalite adverts

[@shoshiwas]

I bought the record in London in '67. When I came back, it was also playing in the US.

[@imafackinjunglist]

That’s mathematically perfect. It even has entropy.

[@rainmakerii2610]

First reggae I ever heard wayyyyy back thar.I musta been bout 5 or 6 years old.This here stuck w me. I am now 63 years of age and still jamming me old bod to this!!!

[@skoldzz5425]

Fairplay

[@NoNOAU]

Yo tengo 64 y me ocurre lo mismo 💜

[@adeolaolatunji9324]

Me too.

[@bnhamilton]

Don't let this song get in your head. It'll make you crazy...it'll make you crazy...it'll make you crazy...

[@thomasandrew5375]

A True Classic 🇯🇲🇨🇦

[@ElizabeteTelesdeNovaes]

That is a great song! I don't remember , on 1969, I was only 5 years old, and I live it at a slash, don't are there eletric light, tap water, etc. I love her! Congratulation for post her! I write here from Brazil! All Good Weekend!

[@nnmartin94]

I was a little boy growing up in Calcutta India, and I heard this and immediately started dancing. Now I live in Germany and I show all my friends this eventually. And we all start dancing.

[@phylliscole4331]

HAHAHAHAHA! That's cool!

[@seansweeney3532]

That is a sweet story!! I fix church organs in st louis, and often on the east side. And many of these places have people playing that may have had some success in secular soul music in the past... and they go to the church and play when they're done touring and chasing that dream... so the churches there, though often poor, have amazing music. And the man I was working for was lamenting that he had the floor of the church repaired just a year or so before this... and I asked him why they wear so fast... and he said simply "dancing"... I want to go to that church, where they dance like that... and I'm an atheist. Lol

[@nureinherz]

Welcome to Germany, my friend! I'm german and I like your story :)

[@gerwynevans2729]

Now a classic, it opened the door for Reggae music in the UK.

[@samthunders3611]

@@gerwynevans2729 pop rock added made it a style called Ska that became popular and a lot if white boy British former punks went Ska like The Specials UB40 ..Maddness.. Desmond was first considered Pop ish Full on Raggea that was the Wailers with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and that whole Jah belief and reefer was a sacrament But the music was loud and heavy unlike Desmonds poppy Ska He did have the 1st hit early part of the BRITISH INVASION as it was called after the Beatles changed music 🎶 big time

[@gerwynevans2729]

@@samthunders3611 Yes, Ska, of course, dates back to the 1950's.

[@mlester3001]

I used to get up every morning to make breakfast for my family and sing this song to keep the mood upbeat.

[@elrando5981]

So that every mouth can be fed…

[@dbi8951]

This is the National Anthem for brown and black Israelites scattered across the four corners of the World...All Praises to Yah Eloihim, the Hidden Ones are being revealed and released.

[@alanlabudde5041]

Hope is good

[@raheirmorris6803]

✊🏾 SHALAM

[@RichardWillis-fn4hg]

Well jamaicans alone are the isrealites

[@rayjr62]

JAH !!!!!!

[@rapman5791]

Yahmo be there! 🙏

[@shaygamerbird9152]

I'm 30 born British but my dad's dad was Jamaican...so am I naturally drawn to this music ..either way I love this music.

[@ArcoirisDeZebulon]

Then you might be an Israelite, too. Not everyone is by blood.

[@jamespasifull3424]

'Ooooh oooh, me ears are alight'!! 🔥😲🔥

[@levig5678]

Yes ! I was hoping to see this as a comment 😂

[@ambera.-c9653]

The voice of an angel. Gentle, sweet man. I went home and cried after a gig he did for me years ago, he had his own demons, but when he performed he was transformed. Rest in peace Desmond.

[@HumbleFamilyTravels]

When he said "Get up in the morning" I was expecting him to continue... 🎶Slaving for bread, Sir. So every mouth can be fed🎵 🎶Poor me Israelites, Ah 🎵

[@ChizqiyahAbiyah]

Joel 2:27 KJV And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

[@hansblitz7770]

Makes me grin every time. Heard it in Drugstore Cowboy.

[@dirtydave2691]

The bass line and the guitars in this are just killer!

[@GrandmaRose9000]

That moment when you realize you've been singing the wrong lyrics since 1969.

[@jahuti5065]

I think we all were. "Darling, she said, I was yards too greasy" was my favourite line.

[@PinnaclePete]

At least I was able to get the, "I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde" part right. 😂

[@iandowney4630]

It’s “poor” and not for…? Okay 😂 I think the toughest line is (as I can sort of hear it) : “shuck them a tearup choses ago”…which isn’t remotely close to what the lyrics are. In fact, it makes zero sense 🤣 I was pretty good at lip syncing , though 😂! Thanks for the correct lyrics…in March of 2024 🎉 Better late than never.

[@thedarkknight1971]

oohhh oohh... Ma Vitalite... 😏 😎🇬🇧

[@joe8016]

Omg...so it's not "me ears are alight" just wow. All these years

[@defconkev]

always brings tears to my eyes, I think about my Dad being born in the depression living on a share cropper farm

[@mishael8900]

@Slippery Slope HalleluYAH!! Those who wait on YAH will not be ashamed!

[@Raughwe]

Bless you! My people were poor scots-Irish and never got passed that damn depression!

[@dennisdivine7448]

In addition to a great song, I'm appreciative of the film-making and graphic design that went into this music video--superb!

[@benpyke-rn6xx]

I just purchased a Desmond Dekker t-shirt. I assume it will take about 3 years until someone points it out and knows his music. It’s all good👍🏻 can’t wait 👍🏿

[@genevievedolan1288]

@@benpyke-rn6xx I want one! I bet it only takes a day for someone to know who he is!

[@bed5513]

The only thing wrong with this tune is that it isn’t longer

[@JH-hg1ok]

That's right

[@mrs.i.one12]

I concur!

[@graemewarwick-t5c]

😂 I read that just as it was ending

[@samthunders3611]

@@bed5513 that's why you play it over n over

[@RobManBoy66]

One of the greatest voices in reggae.

[@bandelaroloverman3368]

For Real..100% Without A Doubt..

[@cameronduff884]

One of the others being Bob Marley and the Whailers.

[@heimonen5174]

@@cameronduff884 One of the greatest israelites would be Moses with his bro Aaron. Dont you think?

[@guavajellyjam]

52 years ago today , April 25 an Anthem was born ! We miss you Desmond - no one did it better .

[@Bezems103]

Drunk and high in the bar I always thought they were singing "ooh ooh miserabel life" It's Israelites.... Thank you 2024 for showing me this.

[@komah]

Who's still here in 2024? See you in 2034

[@BarneyDunn]

I'll be there. See you then.

[@iamaliveyoucantstopnow]

See you then 😌🌞

[@LindaOliver-e8q]

Me

[@realityusedtobeafriendofmi9159]

I am here.

[@scottburgess4526]

Here and staying my brother

[@56postoffice]

1st reggae No1 in the UK, 1969. And it's still a killer. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 We are all Israelites.

[@ArcoirisDeZebulon]

😂

[@DanieldeBavaria]

Just a fantastic song, greetings from Germany.

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Remember hearing this all over Detroit radio back in 1968 before I even knew what reggae was!.

[@stacyblue1980]

Never gets old. Still a true jam. Honest, truthful and free. Love to all. 🙏🌹🦅

[@paultoy9611]

WOW! FINALLY I UNDERSTAND THE LYRICS AFTER FIFTY YEARS.GREAT SONG!

[@majojoma5677]

tell us, please

[@johntaylor7371]

hes basically sayin life is hard cause we are the real jews

[@arturodelagarza3213]

SAME HERE, BUT I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS AN ISRAELI BAND. WHEN I WOULD HEAR IT ON MY TRANSITOR RADIO. NOW THANKS TO KZbin. I CAN GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

[@georgetomas3120]

@@johntaylor7371 We knew for a long time

[@marieteresa3963]

ME TOO

[@strappaplank6017]

not braggin but I joined the man on the mike on two separate occasions in the 90s for this song, got up on stage, he was totally unfazed, groovin, eyes rollin, quality

[@SaintVodou]

Wow! Where did you do that? I saw Toots and the Maytals in New Haven, CT (of all places). They were great, played extra sets, had the whole crowd up on Cloud Ganja

[@ahlivyahyisrael3456]

I used to listen to this song when I was 10. I’m just learning the lyrics now. I had no idea the song was called the Israelites. Praise The Most High! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@deanalpha5502]

My favorite song from the Great Desmond Dekker. R.I.P sir Desmond

[@rysacroft]

Kudos to whoever created this video.

[@victoria_atmosphere9290]

The lyrics art is almost as good as the song which is beyond brillant, BRAVO.

[@DianaRubinoAuthor]

I first heard this classic when in 6th grade in 1969 and ran out to buy the 45. It was only recently I went online to read the lyrics! One of the greatest songs of all time.

[@darryl3422]

I believe this was the first Reggae song to top the charts...Brilliant

[@lesleycarney8868]

After lunch at secondary school in the early 70's (we ate so fast) we rushed to the annex classroom for the disco in the blacked-out room. OMG this was the highlight of my day then to hear all the latest Reggae tracks. At my school at the same time was the UK biggest reggae band too at these discos but before they were famous !!!!!!

[@CThomas-wg4gc]

We are the Israelites, the lies will not work no longer, we will be recognized ✊🏾✊🏾

[@vangroover1903]

May Peace and Freedom reign in Israel, from the river to the sea. Blessed are The Israelites.

[@BelovedofYah]

Amen! By the grace of the Most High the lies will no longer stand.

[@gardenkeeperjg]

I have always loved this song. I haven’t heard it in years. Such an under appreciated artist. And this was our introduction to reggae way back when. Rest in beautiful music, sir.😔

[@williamfredrich3245]

What a voice! Makes me wanna smile no matter what’s happening!!!🔥🥦

[@lawrencenjawe1935]

One of the most iconic tunes in the whole of 20th century popular music...

[@josephcostello695]

The first reggae song I ever heard on top 40 radio. WABC ny. Loved it still one of my favorite songs

[@jameswright5840]

I was 17 when one of our radio stations started playing this song in Anchorage, Alaska. It was like nothing ever heard before and I loved it. I still do.

[@YakubibnEsau]

KENI?

[@ashiidetta2863]

23 yrs old still listening to this in 2020.❤

[@vitodefi9610]

same same

[@graphicventures]

56 and still listening!!!

[@SagittechTelecom]

25

[@1990L-u2e]

@@SagittechTelecom 26

[@petertattum2338]

I'm 64, and I'm still listening to it! It's just one of those great and timeless pop-tunes!

[@TheBob3759]

This song has a strange haunting beat. I still like it.

[@lduranceau8046]

I have always loved this song since the first time I heard it, in 1968. One of the great songs coming out of Jamaica by a great artist.

[@isabellind1292]

It just popped into my head today and I am so glad to have heard it again. I love it too. It'll never get old! 💓🎵💓

[@Starscr34m76]

This song came when i was in my darkest hour. I love you Jesus!

[@davidbrown4271]

What happened? Please tell us your story, thank you

[@davidbrown4271]

@MarieFranceAC it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock n roll

[@jcorkable]

#1 best Jew of all time!

[@RichardWillis-fn4hg]

​@@jcorkablethat would be yahshua

[@gardensofthegods]

MAN we grew up with THE BEST EFFIN MUSIC when i was GROWING UP in THE PHILADELPHIA AREA WE WERE SO BLESSED THIS SONG is a REAL ASS KICKER SOUNDS as GREAT all these DECADES LATER as it did when it first HIT THE AIRWAVES when i was JUST A LITTLE GIRL MAGICAL 💜❤💜❤💜❤ ⚡️ ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️ ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️

[@markwesley6228]

One Of The Coolest Numbers Ever Done!

[@paularmstrong2306]

Don't look a down on me sir!

[@jahsoniclark9844]

Shabbat Shalom 🕎

[@chaidude7496]

Jahsoni Clark 🤣 Shabbat shalom g

[@ArcoirisDeZebulon]

You should check out Great Millstone for edification and inspiration.

[@adriannathornton840]

A Classic song that defied its age even after all these decades. That opening bass line gets me every time 😎. A song about struggle and hardship that was both badass and beautiful. Nothing in so-called modern music even comes close to this tune. Also, Loved the video 💖.

[@sahilramnihora4328]

I hear this song all the time in my dad's car

[@lisasafran8538]

I’ve not figured out what this song is about, but love it, was just playing in a movie, not heard it for many years.

[@adrianjohnson2874]

The Israelites are the Watchmen! Praise the Most High for His Mercy!

[@bigballer1399]

Selah, brother! 🙌🏾

[@whyareyougay4090]

Please Explain, what is WATCHMEN ? ?

[@filminger5096]

Renato’s Belgiüm a show bro

[@TheTiobiloute62]

racist government

[@ArcoirisDeZebulon]

The Israelites are the so-called Blacks, Hispanics, & native americans. Our Nation consists of 12 tribes, none of them african. Hebrews would be the tribe of Judah, the Righteous Jews - the “black” Man, Woman, & Child, just like the Messiah Hamaschiach and our Heavenly Father, Yahawah. ✌🏿

[@muffs55mercury61]

The older it gets the more I love this! Will never forget the early summer of 1969 (in the USA the song entered our top 40 the first week of June) 14 and carefree and awesome music to listen to. One of the first reggae singles to go top 10 in the USA. It reached #1 in the UK, The Netherlands and West Germany.

[@B3burner]

That bass line is just unmistakably cool! 😎😽

[@mikebrett2916]

When I was a child Dad woke me up every morning singing this 😀

[@jahsoniclark9844]

Shabat shalom 🔯 🕎

[@Theevil6ify]

I'm so glad Drugstore Cowboys introduced me to this song. Now knowing the lyrics, it fit perfectly in it. Bob played the role of the singer raiding "pharms", and his crew was his poor Israelites he had to provide for. But he has to stop, fearing he and Dianne too would end up like Bonnie and Clyde, and they ended up leaving him. Classic.

[@maritrew241]

I'm 43 years old. Loved this since I heard it as a young child & haven't stopped playing it since

[@chrismijares488]

My introduction to Desmond was Drugstore Cowboy too. Yeah, great selection by GVS on that one.

[@JeffRebornNow]

As soon as I saw Drugstore Cowboy I went down to a local record store (this was Pittsburgh, 1989) and bought a 45 RPM of this song, and played it over and over.

[@nickm3861]

That is a very astute observation.

[@timmahan1131]

This turned out to be one of those songs I couldn't remember where I heard it or what it was called but I knew I would come across it again one day. After listening to a string of hits by The Specials it turns out today is that day. For a bonus I saw your comments about Drugstore Cowboys. It nailed two birds with one stone. Amazing song, Incredible movie. I've now connected the dots. Thanks yo!

[@dancingnature]

I remember hearing this once in 1968. DJ only played it that one time and never played it again . I was intrigued enough to remember it. around 1999 another DJ played it and I immediately remembered it. I had actually started to think it was a figment of my imagination

[@simplyputviewstv5655]

Lol 30 years...wow!

[@KlasicRock]

I have this full album on Vinyl, thanks to my Grandfather

[@keithmockridge3329]

The greatest reggae song ever.

[@AllenSentinery]

Sweet. I don't care if he was mildly racist. People change and he was never violent if you ask me.

[@HOTDANCEHITS]

heard this when I was 4. Thought it was the best song in the world EVER. Nothing's really changed my point of view