Dem Belly Full Of Trouble

Original Song: “Dem Belly Full (But We Hungry)”

Album: Natty Dread

Label: Tuff Gong/Island

Year: 1974

Original Song: “No More Trouble”

Album: CCatch A Fire

Label: Tuff Gong/Island

Year: 1973

Notes:

Even within mainstream media, it has become evident in the last 20 years that human consumption of food, should I say malnurishment, is a very critical effect of a deep sleep as well as an imporant cause of many, many dis-eases. This has brought forth a barrage of “new” products, supposedly healthy, which I sppose you should take the time to look into. What we are seeking here is nothing less that spritual nurishment. The nutirments needed to sustain us throughout all seasons. The food Bob is talking about here are the wheat and barley, the grape, the fig, the pomegrenate, the olive, the date.

Them belly full but we hungry
a hungry mob is a angry mob
a rain a fall but the dirt it tough
a pot a cook but the food no ‘nough

you’re gonna dance to jah music dance
you’re gonna dance to jah music dance

forget your troubles and dance
forget your sorrows and dance
forget your sickness and dance
forget your weakness and dance

cost of livin gets so high
rich and poor they start to cry
now the weak must get strong
they say oh what a tribulation

them belly full but them hungry
a hungry mob is a angry mob
a rain a fall but the dirt it tough
a pot a cook but you no ‘nough

we’re gonna chuck to jah music chuckin
we’re chuckin to jah music we’re chuckin

them belly full but them hungry
a hungry mob is a angry mob
a rain a fall but the dirt it tough
a pot a cook but the food no ‘nough

We don’t need no more trouble!
We don’t need no more trouble!

And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a

witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about,

even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

(Deuteronomy 31:21)

We don’t need no (no more) trouble!
We don’t need no trouble!

We don’t need no more trouble!
Make love and not war!

‘Cause we don’t need no trouble.

What we need is love
To guide and protect us on.
If you up, look down from above,
Help the weak if you are strong now.

We don’t need no trouble;
What we need is love.
We don’t need – we don’t need – no more trouble!
Lord knows, we don’t need no trouble!

We don’t need no more trouble
no more trouble – no more trouble!

Speak happiness!
Come on, you all and speak of love.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:.

(Ephisians 4:15)

We don’t need no trouble;
What we need is love, now.
We don’t need no more trouble!
We don’t need no trouble!
We don’t (need) – no, brothers and sisters

We don’t need no trouble; we don’t need no trouble!
We don’t need no trouble!
What we need is love!

They say we don’t need another little hungry mouth to feed
But what I would on the double is we don’t really need no more trouble!
Let’s all be trouble free!
No more troubles to bother me!

What we need is love
To guide and protect us on
Look down if you are above
Help the weak if you are strong now
Speak happiness (Sad enough without your woes)
I beg you to speak of love (Sad enough without your foes)

We don’t need no trouble, we don’t need no trouble!
We don’t need no trouble!
What we need is love!

We don’t need, no more trouble, we don’t need no more trouble!
Troubles, we don’t need (we don’t need), Lord, knows!
We don’t need no more war (no more trouble)!
No more trouble, we don’t need no more, more trouble!