"No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song made famous by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song was first released in 1974, and became world-famous in 1975 through the studio album Natty Dread by the same band. The live version from the 1975 album Live! is perhaps best known - it was this version which was released on the greatest hits compilation Legend. Though Bob Marley likely wrote the song himself, songwriter credits were given to "V. Ford". Vincent Ford was a friend of Marley's who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, the ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica where Marley grew up. The royalty checks received by Ford ensured the survival and continual running of his soup kitchen.^[1] Image File history File links No_Woman_No_Cry. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Robert Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ... Natty Dread is a 1974 (see 1974 in music) reggae album by Bob Marley & the Wailers. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Robert Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ... This article needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ... Robert Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ... Natty Dread is a 1974 (see 1974 in music) reggae album by Bob Marley & the Wailers. ... See also: 1970s in music. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... Live! is a Bob Marley & The Wailers live album, released on December 5, 1975. ... Legend is a greatest hits collection of Bob Marley & The Wailers songs, released on May 8, 1984 (see 1984 in music). ... A soup kitchen is a place where food is offered to the poor for free or at a reasonably low price. ... Trenchtown is a neighbourhood located in Kingston, the capital and largest city of Jamaica. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background live as a group in seclusion, voluntarily or involuntarily. ... The City of Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The song has since been covered by such artists as Murder One, Blues Traveler, Joan Baez, Xavier Rudd, Jimmy Buffett, Gilberto Gil, The Fugees, No Use for a Name, Utada Hikaru, String Cheese Incident, Sublime, NOFX (live, with El Hefe playing and singing alone), Boney M, Rancid, Andrés Calamaro, Hugh Masekela, Pauline Black, Peter Rowan, Bill Bourne, Graham Parker, Keller Williams, and as a duet by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. Pearl Jam recently used a part of it as a tag to a live performance of their song Better Man. The ska punk band [spunge] is the only band to ever have officially been given permission by the Marley family to change the lyrics, for their cover on the album Room For Abuse.^[2] In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Blues Traveler is an American alternative rock/blues rock/jam band formed in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1983. ... Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. ... Xavier Rudd was born in 1978 and is a multi-instrumentalist musician and surfer from Australia. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The minister sets the rhythm for Brazils culture policy Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942) is a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter, and the countrys current Minister of Culture. ... The Fugees are a critically acclaimed music band from the United States, popular during the mid-1990s, whose repertoire includes primarily hip hop, with elements of soul, and Caribbean music (particularly reggae). ... No Use for a Name (Abbreviated NUFAN) is a Punk rock band from San Jose, California, United States, formed in 1987 by Tony Sly, Steve Papoutsis and Rory Koff. ... This is a Japanese name; the family name is Utada Utada Hikaru born January 19, 1983), also known by her fan-nickname of Hikki ), is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. ... Back: Jason Hann, Michael Travis, Billy Nershi, Kieth Moseley Front: Kyle Hollingsworth, Michael Kang The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s, formed in Crested Butte, Colorado in 1993, originally playing local gigs at ski resorts in exchange for... Sublime was an American band from Long Beach, California. ... NOFX is a skate punk band from San Francisco, California, United States, formed in 1983 in Los Angeles. ... Boney M was a Eurodance, pop, and disco group, comprising four West Indian singers and dancers and masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian, and who were successful during the 1970s. ... Rancid is a punk band, formed in 1991 in Berkeley, California, by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong. ... Andrés Calamaro (born August 22, 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine musician and composer. ... Hugh Masekela (born Johannesburg, April 4, 1939) is a South African flugelhorn and cornet player. ... The Selecter were a British ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in the late 1970s and who became one of the essential bands of the British ska movement. ... Peter Rowan Peter Rowan (b. ... Bill Bourne is a Canadian musician performing with several other artists. ... Graham Parker playing at Brits Pub in Minneapolis, Minnesota . ... Keller Williams (also known as K-Dub and the Jam-Man) is a one man jam band from Fredericksburg, Virginia. ... Audrey Faith Perry McGraw, best known as Faith Hill (born September 21, 1967 in Jackson, Mississippi), is an American country singer, known for her commercial success as well as her marriage to country singer Tim McGraw. ... Tim McGraw (born Samuel Timothy Smith on May 1, 1967, in Delhi, Louisiana) is an American country music singer who has achieved many number one hits on the country singles and album charts, with total sales in excess of 25 million units. ... Pearl Jam is a Grammy Award-winning American Grunge band, formed in Seattle, Washington, and considered one of the most influential bands of the 1990s. ... Better Man was written by Eddie Vedder when he was 12 and first perfomed it with a San Diego based group called Bad Radio. ... Ska punk is a fusion music genre that combines ska and punk rock. ... The correct title of this article is [spunge]. The substitution or omission of any < > [ ] { } is due to technical restrictions. ... Room For Abuse is the second full-length album by the Tewkesbury ska-punk band [spunge]. It was released on October 9, 2000. ...

The title, of which a more accurate rendering in Jamaican patois would be "No, woman, nuh cry", means "no woman, don't cry". The "nuh cry", which makes a shorter vowel sound for "no" is the equivalendt of the contraction "don't".^[3] Patois, although without a formal definition in linguistics, can be used to describe a language considered as nonstandard. ...

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No Woman No Cry was No. 37 on Rolling Stone's top 500 songs of all time.^[4]

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