So I’m wrapping Christmasn presents, got some Bob Marley on the stereo. Hey, it somehow fit - Marley’s dead to begin with, dead as a doornail. Anyway, the CD gets to his jolly old Christmas song about love and togetherness, “No Woman, No Cry”. Then it dawns on me that I have no idea what he meant.
The song starts “I remember when we used to sit / In the government yard in Trenchtown / There old George here would keep the fire lit” etc. Somehow I used to think the “government yard” had to be a prison, but that doesn’t seem to fit. So does anyone know what that is? Is there a city park in Kingston inhabited by people too poor for a shack in Trenchtown? If not, what else could it be, mon?
Off to cook some oatmeal porridge, of which I’ll share with you, if you can answer.