at the time, The Wailers were recording a lot at Randy's Studio, located on North Parade and right at the epicenter of the mass search for the elusive coffin and the three well-dressed John Crows atop it..... and right around the corner from Randy's was Idler's Rest, a hang out for many musicians and singers.
additionally, Marley had a small record store nearby on either Orange or King St., and lived just west of the old downtown at the southern end of Trench Town, right across from Spanish Town Rd. - he lived and worked in the very area where all of the "Mr. Brown" mania happened to occur.
so it would have been a fantastical story to witness, and even better to write a song about since topical events were a favorite subject of Jamaican music.
at the time, The Wailers were recording a lot at Randy's Studio, located on North Parade and right at the epicenter of the mass search for the elusive coffin and the three well-dressed John Crows atop it..... and right around the corner from Randy's was Idler's Rest, a hang out for many musicians and singers.
additionally, Marley had a small record store nearby on either Orange or King St., and lived just west of the old downtown at the southern end of Trench Town, right across from Spanish Town Rd. - he lived and worked in the very area where all of the "Mr. Brown" mania happened to occur.
so it would have been a fantastical story to witness, and even better to write a song about since topical events were a favorite subject of Jamaican music.