[youtube:2jl4toyk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VbwibwTZrM[/youtube:2jl4toyk]
So... this might be just a coincidence, but I noticed something. I've been listening to The Wailers since I was in the womb and know most of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh's songs. When James Brown's body went missing, I immediately thought of the song "Mr. Brown", but then I brushed it off. Now I can't stop thinking about the similarities between the song and what's happening with Michael Jackson and James Brown.
Many have debated that the song Mr. Brown was about a local politician or about drug smuggling. That may be the case, but the lyrics relate to what's happening in this case. Keep in mind that Bob Marley and Peter Tosh were activists and that Tosh was believed to be murdered because of the edifying message he was spreading to the people of Jamaica.
Here are the lyrics:
"(Ooh - ooh - ooh - ooh)
(It's Mr Brown) Mr Brown is a clown who rides to town in a coffin.
(Well, here he comes) In the top is ... three rows on top and two inside there.
Oh, what a confusion! Ooh, yeah, yeah!
What a botheration! Ooh, now, now!
Who is Mr Brown? I wanna know now!
He is nowhere to be found.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown.
I wanna know who (is Mr Brown)?
Is Mr Brown controlled by remote?
O-o-oh, calling duppy conqueror, ["duppy" means ghost, more specifically, a zombie]
I'm the ghost-catcher!
This is your chance, oh big, big Bill bull-bucka,
Take your chance! Prove yourself! Oh, yeah!
Down in parade
People runnin like a masquerade.
The police make a raid,
But the people - oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah - they think it
fade.
What a thing in town
Crows chauffeur-driven around,
Skankin' as if they had never known
The man they call "Mr Brown".
I can tell you where he's from now:
From Mandeville to slide-a-ville, coffin runnin' around,
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town,
Asking for Mr Brown."
