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Night Shift Lyrics
The sun shall not smite I by day,
Nor the moon by night;
And everything that I do
Shall be upfull and right.
And if it's all night,
It got to be all right!
If it's all night,
Got to be all right!
Your mamma won't lose this one;
You're the lucky one under the sun.
If you make me move,
Then you know you got the groove:
All night, it's all right!
All night, yeah! It's all right!
Working on a forklift
In the night shift;
Working on a night shift,
With the forklift,
from A.M. (Did you say that? Why did you say that?)
to P.M. (Working all night!)
Working on a night shift, yeah!
(Did you say that? Why did you say that? Upfull and right!)
Well, if it's (all night!) - if it's (all right!)
all night (all night!) -
Warehouse (all right!),
You're empty, yeah!
Go around the corner,
Bring your goods!
Go around the other corner,
Bring your suitcases. (All night!)
By the sweat of my brow, (All right!)
Eat your bread! (All night!)
By the sweat of my brow, (All right!)
Eat your bread!
All night (all night)! All right (all right)!
All night (all night)! All right (all right)!
Oh, yeah! (moon by night)
Why did you say that? Oh, yeah! (Upfull and right!)
Working on a night shift
With the forklift. (Moon by night!)
Working on the night shift,
Oh, yeah! (Upfull and right!) /fadeout/
Nor the moon by night;
And everything that I do
Shall be upfull and right.
And if it's all night,
It got to be all right!
If it's all night,
Got to be all right!
You're the lucky one under the sun.
If you make me move,
Then you know you got the groove:
All night, it's all right!
All night, yeah! It's all right!
In the night shift;
Working on a night shift,
With the forklift,
from A.M. (Did you say that? Why did you say that?)
to P.M. (Working all night!)
Working on a night shift, yeah!
(Did you say that? Why did you say that? Upfull and right!)
Well, if it's (all night!) - if it's (all right!)
all night (all night!) -
You're empty, yeah!
Go around the corner,
Bring your goods!
Go around the other corner,
Bring your suitcases. (All night!)
By the sweat of my brow, (All right!)
Eat your bread! (All night!)
By the sweat of my brow, (All right!)
Eat your bread!
All night (all night)! All right (all right)!
Oh, yeah! (moon by night)
Why did you say that? Oh, yeah! (Upfull and right!)
Working on a night shift
With the forklift. (Moon by night!)
Working on the night shift,
Oh, yeah! (Upfull and right!) /fadeout/
Song Info
Submitted by
spliphstar On Jan 08, 2002
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im probably wrong, but what i take from this is that it dont matter what work you do as long as you keep your head and your heart right
This song is about when Bob moved with his mother to Delaware USA in the mid 60's and he was working in a car-factory. He worked the nightshift as you can see
I love this song. Its so under rated. Bob marley did move to Willmington Delaware. His mother lived there and he took up various jobs, including one job working all night at a Chrysler Factory. He was here visiting with his mother and saving money to bring back to jamaica to open his own Record Label, which he did. I don't know if this is true, but i also heard he left early because when he became a citizen, he got his draft card and flew the coop. Bob Marley, king of reggae, Peace, Love, Empathy, was not about to go to Vietnam and start Killing. So it makes sense, especially during the years. Alot of my facts are incorrect so instead of retypying everything heres a link with a description of these years. I think its really cool that bob did this.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20080722/NEWS/807220374/Marley-worked-Night-Shift-in-Delaware
The first few lines are straight from my favorite bible verse - Psalm 121. Old Testament of course for Bob! Great great song.