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in case anything should happen."

I'm saying, "Nothing's gonna happen to you.

Everything's gonna be all right."

But he just said, "Stay close, in case."

Just in case he got a seizure.

I wanna love you

I wanna love and treat

Love and treat you right

He put on the show,

but it wasn't the same.

He didn't have the same energy.

But the people kept him

pumped up 'cause this...

so many people in the audience,

and they were, "Bob! Bob!"

They called for an encore,

and we were saying,

"Lord, I wonder if he can do it."

And he went out, and he did

the encore. He did about four songs.

And they called for another encore,

and I'm saying,

"Jesus, I wonder if he's gonna fall out

on this one."

But he did it.

He did it.

And that was the last time

we performed on stage together.

Thank you very much,

Pittsburgh! Yeah.

If you keep jumping like this,

we'll have to come here every year!

Every week, every month!

Thank you.

I was with him the whole time

in New York...

when he was being treated

at Sloan-Kettering.

I was with him every day.

I was with him when he was getting chemo,

and his locks fell out.

The weight of the locks

was just too heavy.

The few hairs that were still holding

was beginning to be really uncomfortable,

and he decided to cut it.

That was quite a night.

It was myself, Rita...

a group of us women.

We lit candles, and we were reading

from the Bible.

We were reading the Book of Job,

and, uh, we cut.

- I said to him, um,

"You going for the Rude Boy look?"

And he laughed. It was funny.

But it was really, really sad.

About the saddest thing

I can ever remember.

- That was the first time I saw him,

like, without his hair.

You know, he looked, like, so tiny.

Him say, "Listen,

we're gonna fight it. All right?

Regardless of what the doctors might say

or what they might do,

we're gonna fight it.

'Cause a Rasta never give up."

- Left to me, I would have said,

"Bob, come home to Saint Ann

and come eat roast fish

and callaloo every day.

Smoke the biggest spliff if you like,

drink fish tea, just do what you want.

And if you end up in the same place

at the end of it all,

at least you will have had some comfort

in your last months on this earth...

and being in a place that you really,

really wanted to be in."

But we girls didn't have much talk

in those days, you know.

The men made the decisions.

Old pirates yes they rob I

Sold I to the merchant ships

Minutes after they took I

From the bottomless pit

But my hand was made strong

By the hand of the Almighty

We forward in this generation

Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom

'Cause all I ever have

Redemption songs

Redemption songs

He was living

in a house just down the road.

It was actually in walking distance

from the clinic.

But I mean, you had to put boots on halfway

up your thigh to get through the snow.

I'm telling you, I had to wear

dark glasses because it was so white.

The lake was frozen three feet deep.

You could drive a car over it.

I said, "This is a fridge

where they keep people alive."

No, Rottach-Egern...

I'll never forget that.

Dr. Josef Issels

was the ultimate...

in holistic therapy at that time.

But what made him more interesting,

he was the only doctor...

who had actually cured

a melanoma on the planet Earth.

- I went to Germany for his, uh,

Rita was there.

Cindy was there.

His mom was there.

It was kind of frustrating in a sense...

because I know the type of person Bob is.

Him didn't want us

to see him in that state.

Bob had a stroke,

I think, on the left side.

So he was frustrated

he couldn't finger a guitar.

So when you left him,

you thought he might get better?

- Yeah.

I was definitely hoping...

Well, he was trying to tell me that...

that he's gonna beat this thing.

You know?

Gonna beat this thing.

I think people then started

going after his wealth.

I think that it was...

it had become...

a bloodthirsty-type situation,

where people knew he was gonna die,

and they was just...

they just surrounded him.

- That's why Bob never write a will,

I feel.

Bob will never want to give up.

It seems like when you write a will,

it's like you say,

"Well, you know, I'm checking in."

So I think that was

one of the reasons.

I think one of the reasons, too,

is he's not the type of person

who would say,

"Now, okay.

I leave this for Ziggy, Cedella."

You know, like, divide up.

And "Okay, what should I leave for Seeco...

and Neville and Carly and..."

That's not Bob.

Where the Bob I know,

by leaving it open like that,

everybody reveal

who they really were.

You get me?

- Who really did love him,

who fighting over the money.

Yeah, man. Him does say,

but that's how he is. Bob left it open.

The doctor said that

he couldn't do anything more for Bob,

and if we were going to leave,

we'd have to do it within 48 hours.

- So I said, "I'm on my way back.

I'm coming back to Germany this week."

And he said, "No, don't come."

He's coming to Miami.

- We decided, you know, that...

we'd just rent a plane, you know.

Bob wanted to know if it's a Concorde.

I said, "No.

No Concorde."

So I brought up all the kids

from... who was in Jamaica.

Some of them my kids.

Some from other mothers.

So I gathered everyone and said,

"Come. Daddy want to see you all."

- I remember me and Ziggy

were sitting outside,

and some preacher guy

came from Jamaica,

another one came from

the Ethiopian Church,

and I'm telling Ziggy, "Ziggy,

he's gonna be all right, you know?

'Cause, I mean, look...

look how many people are praying."

- My memory was going to

the intensive care unit,

doing "peep," going like this,

looking through the window,

you know, like, going...

And him lay down there,

and him kind of see me, and him go...

him go, "Come."

So I went in, I went beside him,

and him say, you know,

"What up, young Bob?"

You know, "What's up, young Bob?"

And, um, "I've a song for you."

You know, him say,

"I have a song for you."

And him... him sing a couple

of lines of the song,

"On your way up, take me up.

On your way down, don't let me down."

- You know, like the one time

you're kinda hoping...

you can have him for yourself...

And it wasn't supposed

to happen again, you know?

Haile Selassie

Is the chapel

Power of the Trinity

Trinity

Trinity

Build your mind

On this direction

Serve the living God

And live

Livin' God

Livin' God

And live

Take your troubles

To Selassie

He is the only

King of Kings

King of Kings

King of Kings is he

Conquering lion

Of Judah

Triumphantly

We all must sing

All must sing

All must sing

I search and I search

Splendid book of man

In the Revelations

Look what I find

Haile Selassie

Is the chapel

Get up stand up

Stand up for your right

Get up stand up

Don't give up the fight

Get up stand up

Get up stand up now

Stand up for your rights

Ooh-ooh

Get up stand up

Get up stand up now

Don't give up the fight

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