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"No Woman No Cry" was a song written by Bob Marley. It was made famous by Bob Marley and the Wailers' 1975 album Live!, which featured this song as performed in concert at the London Lyceum. It was also on the album Natty Dread, released that same year. The other songwriting credit "V. Ford", refers to Vincent Ford, a friend of Marley who ran a local soup kitchen in Trenchtown, the ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica. The royalites that Ford received from this song helped keep the soup kitchen running.
It has since been covered several times, including by American punk rockers Rancid, singer-songwriters Joan Baez and Xavier Rudd, pop guitarist Jimmy Buffett and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, while Wyclef Jean reworked the lyrics for his hip hop crew The Fugees to relate to his life in Haiti.
The ska punk band [spunge] are the only band to ever have officially been given permission by the Marley family to change the lyrics, in their cover on the album Room For Abuse.
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