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Did Bob Marley know
Konkani?
Tujea bapichem kestaum in “Iron
Lion Zion”
Yes, I too heard this song and I know for sure Bob Marley
knew Konkani and was in Goa, and I was not surprised.
Listen to this !
How Bob Marley’s another
hit song came to be known as “No Woman,
No Cry” and it all started in Anjuna, Goa, India.
This was the time when young Bob Marley visited Anjuna, Goa in the
seventies.
All Anjunites came to see this black legend in large numbers.
It seems Idalina, a young deaf-mute girl from Anjuna who regularly
supplied tea and local snacks to hippies on Friday’s Anjuna Flea Market asked
an educated Anjunkarn Matilda, who this attractive
young man was, in sign language.
Matilda did not know how to explain the name “Bob Marley” to Idalina.
So she opened her mouth wide and made a face like she was
creaming her lungs out to express “Bob Marley” in Konkani deaf-mute language.
Since that day as soon as she saw Bob Marley, Idalina
started to scream loudly.
Bob Marley couldn’t take it no more. He took out his pen and
started writing the song titled. “No Woman, No Cry!”
Yes, Bob Marley did know Konkani and “Tujea Bapaichem
kestaum” was inserted in his English lyrics when Idalina’s Pai, Bostulo saw
both Bob and
Idalina entwined in each other’s arms on a Full
Moon Friday Night’s Party at Anjuna Flea Market! And a week later while
relaxing and smoking on the beach, when a local Reddo came lunging at him at
full speed for no apparent reason ,"Buffalo Soldier" soon followed. And the
rest is history!
