| "Buffalo Soldier" | ||||
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| Single by Bob Marley and the Wailers | ||||
| from the album Confrontation | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Reggae | |||
| Length | 4:17 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Bob Marley & King Sporty | |||
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| "Buffalo Soldier" on YouTube | ||||
"Buffalo Soldier" is a reggae song written by Bob Marley and Noel "King Sporty" Williams and recorded by Jamaican band Bob Marley and the Wailers. It did not appear on record until the 1983 posthumous release of Confrontation when it became one of Marley's best-known songs. The title and lyrics refer to the black US cavalry regiments, known as "Buffalo Soldiers", that fought in the Native American Wars after 1866. Marley linked their fight to a fight for survival and recasts it as a symbol of black resistance.[1]
- ^ Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals - Bogues, Anthony, Page 198, via Google Books. Accessed 28 June 2008.