Jimmy Cliff -House of exile

Jimmy Cliff -House of exile

[@fredeokolo8717]

One of the greatest piece of music that defined my childhood in the early 1970s.

[@richardbwanika2166]

Here too! I see i am not alone.

[@kachigwendembela]

What a reggae star he is. He came to Zambia when I was 15,my late brother Geoffrey took me to his show. And this was his favorite song. Long live Jimmy

[@lungisaniganyaza2687]

Jah bless 🙏🙏🙏

[@alexfrank718]

Jimmy Cliff came to my country Nigeria in early 1970's , Enugu City on a music tour to play, I was in primary school then, now am qualified graduate Mechanical Engineer and in my late fifties and a grand father am still enjoying the music, it's evergreen!

[@josephlucas1534]

You 've said brother, you 've said it. They don't produce music like this any more

[@helenessien3729]

Same here, same here exactly the same age

[@JohnDoe-gx7rn]

Enjoy ,Alex Frank , memories don't leave like people do ,they always stay with YOU , respect .

[@kingsleyunogaozirigbo8901]

Biafra land okay

[@lionell.avorkliyah3946]

But you jail him

[@wyomijohnson2999]

This song was way ahead of it's time . When you think about what's happening now . The brother is a genius.

[@EdmondForster68]

What goes up must come down! Thank you for your words of wisdom Jimmy!

[@georgewalker2831]

You can. Say that again just looking. Around the world

[@pandoranazo7746]

So true

[@basiliauzoahia7197]

Very philosophical Truly inspired.

[@user-io1vp2du5x]

My mother's favorite and my favorite too, we use to listen to it in the 80 in Ndola Zambia and the good part is that JC visited Kitwe my birth place and played his music at Nkana stadium,by then I was a kid but dad saw him. The second time time he came to kitwe he never played he was just visiting and lodging at Eden burgh hotel in the year 200. By then I was a student. Now at 51 still enjoying JC music.

[@richardbwanika2166]

Wow what a small and strange world! I am 51 too, and this was the music I grew up on while in exile in Kenya from the Amin years in Uganda. Other fellow exiled Ugandans would come over on Sundays for goat grilling, and my dad and mom would play this 45 record on their record player. Now years later I play it to my nephews and nieces in Massachusetts as I tell them our family history. It is wonderful to know another fellow African holds good memories over this Jimmy Cliff album. Greetings

[@OluwafunmilayoShomade]

I like all His music s

[@charitydr.musamba9675]

Am also Zamian birn in Ndola but grew up in Livingstone. We had records of KC

[@marysakala5307]

My favorite from childhood 😢

[@anthonyodiadi1405]

Evergreen......House of Exile, that is what the world is for millions and millions of people; the anguish and pathos in JC's evocative voice captures the disconnections and injustice everywhere. This is one of the greatest music played in the modern era, globally. The lyrics, instrumentation and arrangement all executed to perfection. Thank you for ever Jimmy Cliff!

[@davidighodaro9747]

This jimmy cliff House of Exile music is for the matured minds.

[@fredameh3791]

I heard this song sleeping on the mat in my tiny village in alor agu Igbo Eze south of Enugu state , Nigeria through my late snr brothers grammar fone player as it was called then in the mid 70s , now am a full grown adult with family and living large in my own world still listening to House of exile in 2023 .what a music.

[@richardbwanika2166]

Wow! Every comment here brings me nostalgia. My childhood music too.

[@richardejike4300]

Nwannem, this Jimmy cliff song always reminds my of my dead brother who use to play this song in our old house in the 70s.

[@cosmasjesuorobo2377]

A classic, everlasting and evergreen. It appeals to the soul.

[@gakpoaugustine6409]

Absolutely

[@user-sn4no4gb7z]

Timeless song. A real legend, Jimmy cliff. House of exile and many rivers to cross are my favourite tracks growing up in the 70s. Now in mid fifties.

[@Hyawill434]

In my opinion, Jimmy Cliff is one of the greatest reggae singers of all time.

[@anthonyharford1974]

Jimmy cliff a legend

[@erastusoluoch9227]

i wholly agree

[@jesserichards.1591]

Hyamel Wills laptop Haiduk the following hair

[@annieleslie5570]

Totally agree 💯I grow up listening to his music

[@franklynjones4277]

YES HE IS

[@CarolineAdjin-ob3ny]

Anytime I play this music I feel like crying 😭😭

[@richardbwanika2166]

Yup.

[@mikahel.m.i9217]

Me too

[@athoskhemny2040]

You are not the only one

[@KhayAutic]

I hear this song I think of our ancestors finding getting there redemption. Blks have suffered too much. I refuse to believe it would end with no retribution

[@emanwikina9563]

Great musical arrangement, wonderful, down to earth and sobering lyrics. Excellent Evergreen. Timeless. Classic Everything that is created must obey a law. Every man reaps what he sows. Strong words that call everyman to honest self evaluation that we may all finish strong.

[@zephaniahdangiwa1961]

The voice of a living legend

[@TheIaluma]

@Zephaniah Dangiwa - O Yeah sir say that again. This man is so love in Africa especially for old school people

[@ritaidun7502]

Got to love Jimmy Cliff's songs through my senior brothers when I was still a little girl. They could play his songs the whole day. In fact, growing up as a little girl I thought he was the only musician

[@bettytaylor1839]

I remember buying this album as a teenager and feeling so proud because I knew every song word for word love jimmy Cliff 👏🏽

[@jocelynfanguinoveny811]

I was 10 years old when I heard this vibe for the first time but did not understand a single word of english

[@fredeokolo8717]

House of exile makes the passing of fifty years look like the working of a true flying time machine.

[@KingsleyBAyim]

Mr.Jimmy Cliff's music ma de me love reggae music when I was about 10yrs Old with Mama Look up the mountain, Dear mother, among others. A Great Legend indeed

[@princeericgodly8543]

Words are not enough to explain how great this song mean to my soul You are best of ALL

[@florencekondowemunthali3857]

I love it too

[@thembisilenkosi9353]

Am with you my brother ✊🏽✊🏽

[@davidsondaini3999]

This is the City of Lagos-Nigeria in 1970s, nostalgia at its best as far as I'm concerned. Wow, how I wish I could wind back the hands of time !

[@udohnsikak6352]

You are so damn right.This albim came out sometime in 1987.

[@sentsolebatla2512]

@@udohnsikak6352 no it can't be true..not late 1987 ..it's 70s song

[@udohnsikak6352]

@@sentsolebatla2512 you are right.i have confirmed it on google.Thanks

[@sentsolebatla2512]

@@udohnsikak6352 l know because l was in primary school and it was hit song then

[@kwaangeline5475]

Very nostalgic. What a song

[@olajideolayemi2804]

I was just 12 years when my pop introduced this song to me while playing it and I am almost forty now, is still like yesterday...that is what they called Evergreen

[@richardejike4300]

House of Exile is always on top. My senior Late senor brother (DALIBUKA) use to play the Song in the 70s particularly during Christmas period when all returned to our home Town Alor London in IDEMILI SOUTH ANAMBRA STATE NIGERIA. May Jimmy cliff live longer life in JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN.

[@KEITHNALUMANGO]

Everyone I knew loved this song in the 70s. I still do. No party was complete without A House of Exile.

[@leenaidoo1745]

one of the greatest compositions by a true legend.. the music arrangement is magical..

[@wycliffefahie607]

In my post I said mystical. On same page

[@andywishihadtheopportunity4706]

This music takes to the world beyond

[@singhstax]

There's a day of feasting and a day of famine Day of sadness and a day of joy You could see in the day of feasting Life isn't just a little play-like toy So your day arrived when you least expected 'Cause you always thought you were well protected Now you feel like a fish out of water So now you're wondering what's the matter Oh remember you said it wouldn't happen to you Now you're thinking how to start a new A drowning man will catch at a straw You were warned but you wouldn't take heed Everything in creation must obey a law It's true in words as it is in deed You were so puffed up in your pomps and pride You're exposed you got none to hide Yes, you used to look down on the folks beside you Never they think you would have come down too Remember they said you got to reap what you sow Simple truth everybody know Oh what are you on a house of exile Watching you now on your own last mile Oh what are you on a house of exile Watching you now on your own last mile Oh what are you on a house of exile Watching you now on your own last mile Oh what are you on a house of exile Watching you now on your own last mile Everything in creation must obey a law It's true in words as it is in deed

[@donaldpeters6000]

Thank you so much sir

[@ayilagede4861]

A day to born, a day to die...... A day to plant and day to reap, a day to gather and a day to scatter! Love and respect to music maker Jimmy Cliff

[@jackiemasaka5816]

I love this one..House of exile.

[@emmaobes3952]

This is so realistic

[@OJAYMOVIES06]

Appreciate you for this.tnx

[@moffatsabango1238]

Jimmy cliff used his music to portray the everlasting challenges faced by many of us , in the USA , West INDIES , Britain, Africa many years ago . The struggle of the African to live in a contemporary world where intolerance , prejudice ,and all forms that negated on human values.Therefore , house of exile depicts a painful story of what life was , in the 1800s , 1900s -1940s , 50s 60 70s and how the voice of a struggle was sang to inspire our forefathers to rise against injustices. So , we saw the rise of Marcus Gave , Martin Luther King , Malcolm X , Bob Marley , Peter Tosh, and many others who took the pain to forge a united front against evil.

[@ezekielojediran8463]

Heard this song for the first time in 1974 and have never stopped listening to it. Great song, beautiful melody, meaningful lyrics. God bless you JC.

[@josepharthurkennedy9465]

Ezekiel Ojediran thank you soo much I love Jimmy cliff since 70s

[@jocelynfanguinoveny811]

Me too

[@johnquayson3569]

Jimmy Cliff is the BEST and am from Ghana West Africa.

[@janettebaffour-awuah8188]

One of the finest social commentators in the world, Jimmy Cliff has never won the acclaim he deserves. House of Exile, Synthetic World, Many Rivers Cross- name it- each song comments on the human condition. His lyrics are powerful commentary and his voice is golden! No poetry beats these powerful songs, but the award went to Bob Dylan!

[@user-pf3vm3nm8l]

Ooh My God

[@lawrencenjawe9875]

Yeah .. And Bob Dylan once admitted Jimmy Cliff's tune Vietnam was the greatest protest song he'd ever heard......This lends really heavy credence to the man , Mr Jimmy Cliff.

[@sandrawarner7793]

I don't understand why this song has so little likes.This man is a legend

[@ellatongwiisebaloroo5929]

This remains me of my days in lawra sec

[@josephasombang9894]

Sandra Warner Best Song of The Decade. 1974. Joseph Asombang

[@ty7504]

People forget or don't know. Then one day they remember or discover. Good music will always eventually be remembered or discovered as people rummage through their parents' or Uncles' and aunts' or grandparents' music collections. It's just a matter of time.

[@carolmccook3426]

Because they dont know what is a good song he Will always be a true legende jah bless 🙏

[@adeyemiprinceadeyemiprince1663]

Only a few will really love and appreciate a philosophical and inspirational song from a living legend

[@stephanieharry7504]

The wisdom is these songs... I wish I could meet Jimmy Cliff.

[@margaretmpirirwe3597]

Me too.

[@valentinenwabude3416]

He's in Jamaica.

[@ChikeNwosu-s1e]

Jimmy's music inspired me a great deal as a young man when it seemed my world was ended.thanks jimmy.

[@ravengothique100]

i knew this song in the 70s growing up in sierra leone, my dad played it all the time. i loved it then without understanding the words. amazing lyrics.

[@roudoulphwilson7946]

Now we don't enjoy the song of nowadays. This generation is really missing something

[@203rahway7]

@Magdalene Kamara where in sierra leone . I am from there too but living now in the Canada

[@user-gl4zu1gy5x]

Beautiful song, i heard my older sisters playing , singing and dancing to it . Oh my God I love this song growing up as a little girl

[@rafiu.a.onalaja9112]

Love this song. This means a lot to me. ❤❤❤ They don't make music like this anymore.

[@dimaorganicskincarenmore9421]

This song is always loaded with meanings. You reap what you sow... 2020

[@ojimarinzebabingtons2667]

Cliff remains one of the best Raggae artists of our modern time. Long may he live.

[@eversonphiri6436]

We had a lovely time in the 80s when he performed in Lusaka Zambia. Great Guy.❤

[@obinnaenem4274]

This song has gone places, it reminds me of my childhood days

[@stewardluhanga-ui3gq]

It really brings back old memories when dad could play such music on wax records.So nice music 🎵🎶

[@ikanengthebe5957]

He visited my country Lesotho 🇱🇸 back in 1983 and i remember that vividly i was a young boy by then but the memory lives on Jimmy Cliff

[@yusufuwang1]

if i have to take three albums with me to heaven, this will definitely be one of them. and thank jimmy for letting us enjoy this great music on you tube with no strings attached.

[@tonyogbata2022]

Nostalgic! The time when music was a 'calling'....

[@yarteyey]

Great song from a great artiste, Jimmy. The living legend.

[@nzekwesirimaxwell4967]

A living legend he is... Meaningful lyrics, not all these noises we listen to these days...

[@Piesis9]

Here’s to my friends Don Greco, Don Solozo, Don Clemenza and Don Tartaglia wherever you are. We used to groove to this masterpiece with Guinness, weed and black lights. Good times...signed Don Torres

[@michaelfrancis4427]

I can't get tired of listening to this song. Reminds me of my high school days in Nigeria.

[@moniquejewel8292]

Me too, in Lagos as a student worker.

[@margaretmpirirwe3597]

Me too. Reminds of my High school in Uganda

[@roselynanyadoh4887]

He remains my number one Reggae Artiste

[@Renwickrobin]

All the reggae singers from that Era 1960 to 1980 were all good

[@user-bn3tu7uo9o]

Mon classement des 3 meilleurs chanteurs Jamaïcains de tous les temps, dans l'ordre : Jimmy Cliff, Albert Griffiths chanteur du Groupe The Gladiators Reggae et enfin Bob Marley.

[@MyMolefe]

Wow what a classic. Brings back my childhood year back in yhe seventies.

[@maldiniinvescoltd701]

This was a 1978 /9 smash or that is when first heard it in nairobi kenya and all my life i have been with bongo man and still enjoying his everlasting music

[@euchariaobidiegwu860]

Jimmy cliff is a legendary musical philosopher just like Bob Marley . his music bring back to me the good good old days when the world was in peace . His music will linger on as yet into another generation to come . I have been enjoying the philosophy of his music for almost thirty years now and I still today ,

[@maldiniinvescoltd701]

I came to know jimmy cliff around 1968 or 69 after the " hard road to travel "hit and since then and up to today i love bongo man. He is in a class of his own and that golden voice makes him the best ever.

[@monnatusa2653]

JImmy cliff- while the rest of the world adores Bob Merly, to me, the great Jimmy Cliff is the one i adore! LONG LIVE JIMMY!....

[@salomontudieshe8011]

They were bothe great, Man

[@ugoking8343]

For the greatest is Jimmy Cliff

[@rufdymond]

For me Jimmy is the greatest Jamaican song writer hands down.....Bob was great and took the music to the masses. However if you ask most people of my age who played sound systems back in the 70s and 80s to name their top 5 artists Bob would probably not be in there.

[@sugarsugar1333]

Bob marley is prophet

[@malicklo5076]

Et432qo00i0800ppmp} oyyoiipyil^^

[@chrisogbonna794]

Jimmy Cliff is one of d best reggae legend.His songs are so lovely n timeless n most inspiring.I love this track so much.

[@jorgecarpintero5282]

Jimmy cliff es una leyenda. Me encanta tanto esa música el inmortal jimmy cliff. Esta música nunca morira parese ser una música triste pero ami me hace feliz 😌😌😌✌️✌️🤩🤩🤩

[@sean4384]

Listening to this great piece with deep nostalgia, memories rushing back at me. My mum used to play this and many other magical tracks of his back then. I can only smile and allow myself basque in the euphoria of those great memories. Blessings to you Jimmy cliff.

[@preciousnellt7504]

You are a good writer. I smile as I read thru your lines.

[@solomonkabuka9407]

Jimmy C you filled my childhood life with incredible music composition, tunes, and human messages! God bless...

[@SamuelOwusuMensah]

I really love this music so much, you're a genius Mr Cliff.

[@ackeemthomas8098]

classic

[@jesserichards.1591]

Samuel Owusu Mensah dis

[@modouwad9424]

C'est magnifique. Cela rappelle la vraie musique .Rien à dire c'est toujours agréable à écouter

[@georgemushabati4847]

The calmness, wisdom and skill in the song just amazes me. That was and is music.

[@John77764]

Jimmy Cliff is of the boldest generation of musicians telling us all what we are. And we ought not to be.

[@NeriahSesay]

Oh memories as this was my grandfather 's favorite. I could remember him playing the music during after a day's work at the SLPMB in Bonthe town.

[@AbFabDiva]

This will always be one of my favorite Albums! This is the second Album I ever bought! I was only a child and I memorize every word! What an Artiste and what a voice!

[@dannymweene5682]

One of my favorites! The first time I listened to it is when I was a small boy and am still playing it. My father was the one playing it. Kudos to the legend Jimmy cliff 👏

[@patrickkasanga]

Yeah same here. My dad bought the album in 1974 whem I was nine and I am still listening to it to this day!

[@agnesrandolph8450]

God bless you beautiful soul brother Cliff, truly touched.

[@cholachisanga7412]

Jimmy Cliff came to my country Zambia, I even went where he was but sadly I didnt have a chance to talk to him. My very best man of the year the legend, still love you Jimmy and your music 💃

[@enosmakungasiwakwi9504]

This song reminds about my childhood friends; Nason Mwankenja, Robby Kanyinji, Bwalya Mulenga, Evans Bokwe Kalasa, Benard Mwakalobo, Joseph Machuta, Isaac Nswana, Manson Shonga, Anthony Dimus Kapemba. Guys I will always remember you! Fisansa primary school.

[@justinezeh5613]

Jimmy Cliff is truly d originator n 1 of. Best. May u live long JayCee.

[@njipatrick8348]

Only big brains will have a feel of what Jimmy is dishing out, great lyrics ....

[@anthonysteele6919]

As long as I live Jimmy cliff songs will always inspire me. Want to see him in concert...

[@josephineolowu2546]

Deep thinking! For me, Jimmy is the best song writer of our time, his lyrics speaks volumes!

[@peacemonger6432]

At 64, I have been listening this music for quite some time. I grew up with Jimmy Cliff. Well, I was 17 when I first got into him.

[@lazarengandeu3316]

I have never been able to exile from this music since more than 50 years

[@originsbicar4193]

Lazare Ngandeu imo

[@boammaruribaakile7012]

Me too more than 50 years ago

[@princeericgodly8543]

Prince Eric Godly This is a Message amonge Message

[@dr.michaelokolo-169]

Jimmy Cliff, you are a living legend and the greatest musical philosopher after Celestin Okwu. In all your songs, the proverbs are life-changing for the best if we can listen and apply the words of wisdom. I heard this song in Coal City, Enugu, when I was in Elementary School. I still listen to it almost daily for over forty-five years. Bravo.

[@obinnaenem4274]

Jimmy cliff is a legend, I love him. His songs give me joy

[@Wavecurve]

One one of the fore fathers of Reggae. One of the finest voices in all of music. Deserves more recognition and credit than he gets.

[@ceciliacherry1943]

This is one of my favorite songs.. I can listen to it all day long.

[@helenameh999]

About Jimmy Cliff his lyrics are prophetic, inducing and pure , remembering my late senior brother who will always disturb us with this in the early morning of late 70s.

[@felixanenuwa6478]

Thank you Jimmy Cliff for sharing your greatness all over the world

[@lilianowoko5416]

The greatest of Jimmy Cliff. Loved listening to this song when in High School in Kenya.

[@presleysaye3455]

the greatest song of all time.

[@LR3ONNEJ]

Presley Saye this song calms my spirit. So therapeutic.

[@doudoukhoudiadiop774]

J'adooooooore!

[@samuelkelly2197]

U.K. I remember the 70s when I was in Secondary School, when I could sing this song just like this lovely man with this lovely voice. I laugh at my children trying to do the hip hops and raps. We’ve done it all before. They forget a school master was once a school boy. Nothing beats experience. Kudos for all the beautiful singers and more especially God who gave the gift of music to mankind. 😁😄😃😀😘

[@dorothygermain8578]

Such beautiful lyrics and meaning, house of exile my favourite track

[@gideonlaya7463]

I remembered listening to this song in the late 80s when I was growing up without knowing who sang it,not until now that I still came across it in my 40s and realised that it was Jimmy cliff.God bless you for making my teenage life memorable.

[@ahmedsibaway4565]

Great piece, Cant stop listening to it.

[@richardeaton8670]

Ahmed Sibaway I'm a hobo and considered a treat to society cuz I listen to people like cliff, wear my shoes, I'm harmless, but these righty tightys keep calling the police on me, I was woke up by Johny law for sleeping under a 🌲, searched, name rand and sent down the road feeling bad, beeing a white American born citizen

[@bensonchukwudi4860]

One of my best Jimmy cliff songs

[@MuskwatiBlogspot]

A great Song! What a LEGEND! THE MIGHTY VENERABLE JIMMY CLIFF! THANKS for sharing!

[@rogerkabika4133]

💥C’est l’une de mes meilleures chansons dans la vie. Je garde jalousement ce disque at home. Quelle jeunesse j’ai eue avec Jimmy💓💓💓🌹🌹🌹

[@dareodofin3846]

Great music don't fade away. This is one of them. Cheers to the legend !

[@michaelsayewehdahsr2453]

This is one of my favorite songs and musicians. Long live Jimmy cliff

[@TheBong195]

Great song in an anointing voice!!!!

[@joefaith70]

are you from Bong Mines?

[@mabelzazaboi9510]

Joseph Johnson uy

[@wycliffefahie607]

one of my favorite songs period. The music is mystical.

[@yahayajalingo7552]

One of his greatest... And reggae's most poignant..

[@alifowalter8201]

Timeless songs of Jimmy Cliff. My granny played this song on her Gramophone every weekend in the 70s. Live on Jimmy and rest well grandmum.

[@aworan280]

His music is thrilling, inspirational,philosophical and induce hope and confidence in the listener, long life to all, amen. Jimmy Cliff.

[@appiahgyamfi6234]

At old age still love Jimmy's songs

[@millicentaddai7096]

This is really bringing me back to the 70s, and am enjoying it.😗😗😗

[@michaelsayewehdahsr2453]

One of my favorite music and artist. Long live veteran Jimmy Cliff