54-46 Was My Number

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The Maytals, known from 1972 to 2020 as Toots and the Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group, one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music. Frontman Toots Hibbert, who died in 2020, was considered a reggae pioneer on par with Bob Marley. His soulful vocal style was compared to Otis Redding, and led him to be named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Singers. After Hibbert's death, the Maytals indicated that they would continue as a working group.Their 1968 single "Do the Reggay" was the first song to use the word "reggae", coining the name of the genre and introducing it to a global audience. The Oxford English Dictionary credits Toots and the Maytals… more »

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2003

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Stick it up, mister 
Can you hear what I'm saying now, yeah 
Get your hands in the air, sir 
And you will get no hurt, mister, no no no 

I said yeah (I said yeah) 
Listen what they say (listen what they say) 
Can you hear me say, yeah? (yeah yeah) 
Listen what they say (listen what they say) 

Do you believe I would take such a thing with me 
And give it to a police man? 
I wouldn't do that, oh no (ooh, ooh) 
I wouldn't do that (ooh, ooh) 

And if I do that
I would say sir come on and put the charge on me
I wouldn't do that (ooh, ooh) 
I wouldn't do that (ooh, ooh) 

I'm not a fool to hurt myself 
So I was innocent of what they done to me 
They were wrong (ooh, ooh), oh yeah 
They were wrong (ooh, ooh) 

You give it to me one time (huh) 
You give it to me two times (huh-huh) 
You give it to me three times (huh-huh-huh) 
You give it to me four times (huh-huh-huh-huh) 

54-46 was my number, was my number, man 
Right now, someone else has that number 
54-46 was my number, well 
Right now, someone else has that number 

And I said yeah (I said yeah) 
Listen what they say (listen what they say) 
Can you hear me say, yeah? (yeah yeah) 
Listen what they say (listen what they say) 

Oh, work could not control me now 
Oh, no bars could not hold me now 
They hold I down and they lock-a you way 
They try to keep I for a year and a day 
But through the powers of the Most High God 
Got to turn me lose, I say 

54-46 was my number, was my number, man 
Right now, someone else has that number, well 
54-46 was my number, was my number, man 
Right now, someone else has that numb

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