| "War" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Bob Marley and the Wailers | |
| from the album Rastaman Vibration | |
| Released | 1976 |
| Recorded | 1976 |
| Genre | Reggae |
| Length | 3:36 |
| Label | Island |
| Songwriter(s) | Credited to Carlton Barrett, Allan Cole |
| Producer(s) | Bob Marley and the Wailers |
"War" is a song recorded and made popular by Bob Marley. It first appeared on Bob Marley and the Wailers' 1976 Island Records album, Rastaman Vibration, Marley's only top 10 album in the USA. (In UK it reached position 15 on May 15, 1976.) The lyrics are almost entirely derived from a speech made by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I before the Eighteenth Session of UN General Assembly on 4 October 1963. The speech was reminsicent of the one he made in 1936 to the League of Nations. The previous year 1935, two years after Hitler's rise to power, Ethiopia had been invaded by Italy and he had been living in exile at the time.