Peter Tosh Lyrics     Peter Tosh may have written marijuana's greatest advertisement -- and mantra to weed-smokers everywhere -- with "Legalize It," but this Roots Reggae stalwart was a lot more than your run-of-the-mill hash head. Son of a single mother and a preacher father who refused to recognize Peter as his son, Tosh grew up with an arrogant and volatile temperament. The saving grace in his life was guitar, which he picked up early and spent his youth mastering. Living in Kingston's violence and poverty ridden Trenchtown slum, Tosh (then known as Winston MacIntosh) met Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer in the early '60s and they eventually formed the Wailers. The group's successes are well known -- starting out as a Ska outfit, the band graduated to Rock Steady and ultimately helped create Roots Reggae in the late '60s/early '70s. After a fall-out with Island Records president Chris Blackwell in 1973-4, Tosh left the band and released his solo debut, Legalize It in 1976. A critical and commercial success, Tosh earned a niche for himself that ultimately wasn't enough to sustain him financially. Subsequent releases saw varying degrees of success. In the meantime, Tosh was enduring violent run-ins with Jamaican police, including brutal beatings. In spiritual crisis due to slumping sales and his personal demons, Tosh went to Africa in the early 1980s. In 1987, after returning to Jamaica and releasing his final album No Nuclear War, Tosh was killed in his home. Reggae lost a powerful political voice, a great if troubled individual, and one of its founding fathers that day. Only one perpetrator was apprehended -- a personal friend, who was put to death by the Jamaican courts. Download Peter Tosh MP3s here Buy rare Peter Tosh vinyl records, CDs and rare music albums: Bush Doctor Captured Live Don't Look Back Equal Rights Honorary Citizen    I'm The Toughest In My Song Johnny B Goode Legalize It    Mama Africa Mystic Man No Nuclear War The Toughest

Peter Tosh Song Lyric: Legalize It Legalize it - don't criticize it Legalize it and i will advertise it Some call it tampee Some call it the weed Some call it Marijuana Some of them call it Ganja Legalize it - don't criticize it Legalize it and i will advertise it Singer smoke it And players of instruments too Legalize it, yeah, yeah That's the best thing you can do Doctors smoke it Nurses smoke it Judges smoke it Even the lawyers too Legalize it - don't criticize it Legalize it and i will advertise it It's good for the flu It's good for asthma Good for tuberculosis Even umara composis Legalize it - don't criticize it Legalize it and i will advertise it Bird eat it And they leave it Fowls eat it Goats love to play with it Get This Ringtone Burial Johnny B. Goode Legalize It Nothing But Love Pick Myself Up Reggae Mylitis Steppin Razor Vampire

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