Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDLXX--Bob Marley: Three Little Birds

 Just a bit late again...and that's one New Year's Resolution for 2024 already down the drain....

During the early days of the pandemic, my youngest son and I watched dozens of documentaries, one of which was the very well done Marley, a thorough look at the life of the reggae star.  While it was a bit late in the game, it was also my introduction to this week's tune.  As an aside, later that summer, once the baseball season had started, it was the walk-up song for Giants' catcher Chadwick Tromp (there's one of the better names in baseball history).  As the saying goes, sometimes it is indeed a small world....

Bob Marley was featured in the twelfth (!) post on Friday Night Jukebox, for one of my all-time favorite tunes, "Redemption Song."  When I first started I didn't do bio paragraphs, but since this is international superstar Bob Marley there isn't much my meager talents can add to his history.  Suffice it to say he is one of the all-time greats, both as a musician and as a human being.

"Three Little Birds" (many think the song is called "Don't Worry About a Thing" or "Every Little Thing Is Gonna Be Alright") was released in 1980 on Marley's seminal album, Exodus.  The song was released as a single in the U.K. and reached #17.  The album hit #8 in the U.K. and was Marley's biggest hit in America peaking at #20 on the Billboard 200.

Fun Fact:  Time magazine named Exodus the album of the century.  High praise indeed!

Throughout my years writing posts for FNJ, I've noted a time or two (or a hundred) how artists can often do so much with so little (also known as The Wonder That Is Simplicity), and "Three Little Birds" is the essence of minimalism.  The song has one verse and one chorus (the chorus is two lines repeated once each) and Marley sings them to perfection (the closing is just the two lines of the chorus over and over and over).  The song itself is a call to not let worry get in the way and just enjoy that moments life gives us.  It was also the song I sent to my family after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election--and hopefully a good luck charm for Biden/Harris in 2024....

Lyric Sheet:  "Singing, 'Don't worry about a thing/Cause every little thing is gonna be alright..."

Enjoy:

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee