Get Up, Stand Up

Bob Marley wrote "Get Up, Stand Up" while touring Haiti, moved by the poverty he saw there and the lives of Haitians, according to his then-girlfriend Esther Anderson. The tune of the chorus borrowed from the instrumental hook in War's "Slippin' into Darkness", released the previous year, a band Marley had expressed admiration for. Written by Marley and Peter Tosh, it appeared on The Wailers' 1973 album Burnin' and peaked at number 33 on the Dutch Top 40 that year.

The song was re-recorded and re-released by all three major Wailers on their own solo releases, each with varying arrangements and approaches to the third verse, which claims that "Almighty God is a living man". Marley's version on Live! in 1975 was notable for its "WO-YO!" refrain after the third verse. Tosh included his own version on his 1977 album Equal Rights, while Bunny Wailer was the last to release his, on Protest, featuring Tosh due to his involvement in recording the album before his death.

Marley frequently performed the song at his concerts, often as the last song. It was the last song he ever performed on stage, on 23 September 1980 at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1999, the 1973 Island Records recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.