Cedella Booker and Bob Marley:Bob Marley's Death

<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>On the afternoon of May 11, 1981 after a losing battle with cancer, Bob’s prophecy had been fulfilled.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9eAU6VjTrSqcXsXSRVIo3Sdsf4XzXAhiKYDxBhcjMvV7E3PwnDr2ai5mN_zFC0zZzaKxHJ4rcYazpHriOpHwlrVLGh0Qnp__ROfwGNfVOPdsiUOHBHeu6Tr3nhFZ6CgFA9HEUiHYa6LmU/s1600/bob_marley_jakes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9eAU6VjTrSqcXsXSRVIo3Sdsf4XzXAhiKYDxBhcjMvV7E3PwnDr2ai5mN_zFC0zZzaKxHJ4rcYazpHriOpHwlrVLGh0Qnp__ROfwGNfVOPdsiUOHBHeu6Tr3nhFZ6CgFA9HEUiHYa6LmU/s400/bob_marley_jakes.jpg" width="323" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He had died whispering comforting words to his dear mother Ciddy “Maddah, don’ cry”. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reminiscent of the song he had written and performed in 1975, 6 years prior to this fateful day, he had already told her that everything was going to be alright in “No Woman No Cry”. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I remember when we used to sit In a government yard in Trench Town </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then Georgie would make a fire light </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As it was log wood burning through the night </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then we would cook cornmeal porridge </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of which I’ll share with you </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My feet is my only carriage </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So I’ve got to push on through </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But while I’m gone… </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No woman, no cry </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No woman, no cry </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, my little darling I say don’t shed no tears </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No woman, no cry </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Little sister, don’t shed no tears </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No woman, no cry </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This song sums up in a nutshell the love of a son for his mother. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even while he is carrying his own heavy burden he was thinking of her sacrifice, her love and her well being. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Although this song was evidently dedicated to none other than Cedella Booker, it is a universally fitting tribute to the love shared between a mother and her child and proves Marley was indeed a lover of all, especially women. </span></div>

Cedella Booker and Bob Marley:Bob Marley's Death

On the afternoon of May 11, 1981 after a losing battle with cancer, Bob’s prophecy had been fulfilled.   He had died whispering comfortin...

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