Bob Nesta Marley Mother and Father

Bob Marley's speech about his father

“What we know is that my father is an English guy. Now me know me mother never saw my father more than two or three times, you know what I mean? But don’t really miss him ’cause I never know him. But me mother know that, if God never want me to come ’pon earth, then them couldn’t carry a guy away from England. Now this guy go to war, him was a soldier in the English Army. Don’t know when he was a fight—maybe he was one a dem a-kill all the people in Africa. He was a captain. So him leave from the wars and come a Jamaica. And come to St. Ann’s, come see my mother, and breed her, and then me come. But me come as Rasta.