The best songs that were ever written and performed about cannabis, marijuana, weed: Here’s an eclectic mix of genres and musical styles, from various times in history, though the message of every single one of these songs is quite similar.
Weed is good, it helps and/or heals. Either that, or it’s just plain good fun, no harm done.
Check’em out!
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1. Emergency Spliff by SkillinJah Ft. Josh Heinrichs
Lyrics “Emergency Spliff”
It’s just the weed that me love, weed that me love, weed that me love, me sensi
Smoke until the whole bag is empty
The weed that me love, weed that me love, weed that me love, the sensi
My emergency spliff
Man I’m a cannabis addict, you better roll me one and if I have to I’ll light it
You catch my drift, my emergency spliff, I never leave home without
My emergency spliff
Man I’m a cannabis addict, you better roll me one and if I have to I’ll light it
You catch my drift, my emergency spliff, I never leave home without
That weed it name guava
Me get it from a friend
Me get it from the farmer
Nah tell ya them name, we no name, Informer!
Cause most informer, them visit the embalmer
Them a fuckin snake charmer
Me tell them no sir
Thats not a thing for me, no sir
No coke no bother bring to me, no sir
Demons wanna cling to me
A pure slackness song they wanna sing to me
Yes I mix lambsbread with guavam
Yes I wanna legalize ganja
Yes I want to buy it on the corner like apples and banana’s
My emergency spliff
Man I’m a cannabis addict, you better roll me one and if I have to I’ll light it
You catch my drift, my emergency spliff, I never leave home without
My emergency spliff
Man I’m a cannabis addict, you better roll me one and if I have to I’ll light it
You catch my drift, my emergency spliff, I never leave home without
It’s smoked by the baker and candle creator
North and south, both sides of the equator
Imagine you were old and you were suffering from cancer
The only way to eat was just to smoke a little reefer
Marijuana we nah smoke pelico, me and ras josh, we are the numero uno
We come and around and Babylon is enfuego
My emergency spliff
Man I’m a cannabis addict, you better roll me one and if I have to I’ll light it
You catch my drift, my emergency spliff, I never leave home without
My emergency spliff
Man I’m a cannabis addict, you better roll me one and if I have to I’ll light it
You catch my drift, my emergency spliff, I never leave home without
It’s just the weed that me love, weed that me love, weed that me love, me sensi
Smoke until the whole bag is empty
The weed that me love, weed that me love, weed that me love, the sensi
Smoke until the whole bag is empty
2. Burn One Down by Ben Harper
Lyrics “Burn One Down”
Let us burn one
From end to end
And pass it over
To me my friend
Burn it long, we’ll burn it slow
To light me up before I go
If you don’t like my fire
Then don’t come around
Cause I’m gonna burn one down
Yes I’m gonna burn one down
Yeah
My choice is what I choose to do
And if I’m causing no harm
It shouldn’t bother you
Your choice is who you choose to be
And if you’re causin’ no harm
Then you’re alright with me
If you don’t like my fire
Then don’t come around
Cause I’m gonna burn one down
Yes I’m gonna burn one down
Herb the gift from the earth
And what’s from the earth
Is of the greatest worth
So before you knock it try it first
Oh you’ll see it’s a blessing
And it’s not a curse
If you don’t like my fire
Then don’t come around
Cause I’m gonna burn one down
Yes I’m gonna burn one…
Oh
3. Herbalist by Alborosie
Lyrics “Herbalist”
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Twenty pound of weed inna three black scandal bag
You sit inna van back crowning head a black rag
Who a di thugs, dem wit a motor, Long Beach?
Dem load it an’ leave before policeman dem reach, yo
Herbalist high grade specialist
Export green stash, import green cash
Build up a big house a so di money get wash
Yu hand feel like silk, no more callus nor rash
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Five pound of weed inna vacuum seal pack
Four a dem pack fit inna Gucci brown sack
Westmoreland pass to Kingston air park
Deliver to pilot and Cessna depart, yo
Herbalist high grade specialist
Export green stash, import green cash
Buy an Escalade a so di money get wash
Yu hand feel like silk, no more callus nor rash
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
C.I.A. and F.B.I. dem have eye up ‘pon you
Money inna envelope big up di blue suit
Round your backyard and landscape fi run
Mi neva hear no man dat run faster dan gun
Herbalist high grade specialist
Export green stash, import green cash
Build up a go-go a so di money get wash
Yu hand feel like silk, no more callus nor rash
Herbalist high grade specialist
Export green stash, import green cash
Buy nuff pum pum so di money get wash
Yu hand feel like silk, no more callus nor rash, yeah
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
Babylon dem thief my herb, dem thief my herb
4. Kaya by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Lyrics “Kaya”
(Wake up and..)
(Wake up and..)
(Wake up and..)
Wake up and turn I loose
For the rain is fallin’
Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
For the rain is fallin’
We-e-e-e-e-ell
I feel so high, I even touch the sky
Above the fallin’ rain
I feel so good in my neighbourhood, so
Here I come again
I’ve got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
I’ve got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
For the rain is fallin’
Wo-wo-oh! Yea-ea-ea-eah!
I feel so high, I even touch the sky
Above the fallin’ rain, yeah
I feel so good in my neighbourhood, so
Here I come again
I got to have kaya now
I got to have kaya now
I got to have kaya now
For the rain is fallin’
Get up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
For the rain is fallin’
We-e-ell
Kaya, man (kaya, kaya)
Kaya, man (kaya, kaya)
Got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya)
For the rain is, rain is fallin’
Wake up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
5. Be Healthy by Dead Prez
Lyrics “Be Healthy”
It’s all love. ..
I don’t eat no meat, no dairy, no sweets
Only ripe vegetables, fresh fruit and whole wheat
I’m from the old school, my household smell like soul food, bro
Curried falafel, barbecued tofu
No fish though, no candy bars, no cigarettes
Only ganja and fresh-squeezed juice from oranges
Exercising daily to stay healthy
And I rarely drink water out the tap, cause it’s filthy
Lentil soup is mental fruit
And ginger root is good for the yout’
Fresh veg-e-table with the mayatl stew
Sweet yam fries with the green calalloo
Careful how you season and prepare your foods
Cause you don’t wanna lose vitamins and miner-ules
And that’s the jewel
Life brings life, it’s valuable, so I eat what comes
From the ground, it’s natural
Let your food be your medicine (uh huh)
No excederin (uh uh)
Strictly herb, generate in the sun, cause I got melanin
And drink water, eight glasses a day
Cause that’s what they say
They say you are what you eat, so I strive to be healthy
My goal in life is not to be rich or wealthy
Cause true wealth comes from good health, and wise ways
We got to start taking better care of ourselves
They say you are what you eat, so I strive to be healthy
My goal in life is not to be rich or wealthy
Cause true wealth comes from good health, and wise ways
We got to start taking better care of ourselves, be
Healthy y’all. ..
Yeah, yeah, yeah, hold the fuck up, yo
We’ll take this little intermission, listen what the
Fuck we gotta say, y’know?
Word is bond son, niggaz been livin fat for too long, knowamsayin?
Smokin bogeys, fuckin drinkin all types of shit
Wailin out, not givin a fuck what they puttin in they
Bodies, son, knowamsayin?
’bout time niggaz start thinkin about that shit, son, knowamsayin?
That shit is fuckin, makin us deteriorate, son
Word up, we gotta care bout our little babies an shit, son
Niggaz got kids to raise, straight up
Ya gotta start learnin yo self, learning bout ya health, son
Learnin this world we live in, kid, knowamsayin?
It’s time to start changin all that shit god, word up
So I’m gonna leave y’all niggaz on some shit like that, ya knowamean?
Word up, y’all niggaz better start usin y’all minds an
Shit, kid
Peace
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6. Ganja Babe by Michael Fronti
Lyrics “Ganja Babe”
I wanna make it slow
Sensemille
I wanna make it slow
Make me feel ya
Heavy medicine
ya see my eyes are feeling red again
I’m bringin’ light
like Thomas funky Edison
been in the desert for forty seven days
Purple Haze
the poison that I tasted never changed
turn up the woofers so I can feel the beat
vibrate my belly like a bomb in harmony
summer heat
my back is sticking to me to the seat
bare feet
tank top and shorts is all ya need
summer breeze
I’m feelin’ kinda fine
I’m rolling with my shorty all the time
wind and grind lovely shake your behind
cinnamon skin be bringing sin to my mind
but whether or not the weather’s hot
or the weather’s cold
I’m wrapping her like a blanket with my whole soul
so that she can feel me
like Coca Cola I’m the woo-o-oh oh the sweet thing
my girl lollipop she growing mad crops
she rollin’ herbs everyday
at about 4 o’ clock
tick tock
strike the hammer while the Iron’s hot
ooh girl watcha got cooking in the pot
see Mary Mary quite contrary
how does your garden grow?
Hydrophonic ultra supersonic
or does it grow naturally slow?
Ganja babe my sweet ganja babe
I love tha way ya love me and the way ya misbehavin’
ganja babe my sweet ganja babe
come wake body-ody take my mind away
Everybody get down and do the boogaloo
just like the cover of I want you
yoo hooo look watcha gonna do
watcha gonna do when the rent comes due
round up the posse and call up the crew
5 bucks at the door and ya bring ya own booze
call ya neighbor ’cause they can come too
be sure and bring ya records ’cause I only got a few
so baa baa black sheep have you any wool
yes sir, yes sir a nickle bagful
some for my partner, some for my crew
some for my ganja baby she needs 2
cause just like me they long to be… high
7. That Cat is High by the Ink Spots
Lyrics “That Cat is High”
Boys, I’m mellow as a honeydew, yeah
That cat is high
Look at that look in his eye
Oh man, he’s high
Yes, higher than a kite
That cat is high
Look at that look in his eye
Man, I wouldn’t lie
The cat’s higher than a kite
Now when you see him stumblin’
Bubbed in and down the street
You know that cat’s been drinkin’
Got no shoes upon his feet
Man he’s high
I said that cat is high
Yes, he’s high
Man, he’s higher than a kite
That cat is high
Look at that look in his eye
Man, I wouldn’t lie
That cat’s higher than a kite
Boys, he’s high
Just look at them two black eyes
You know I wouldn’t lie
He’s higher than the sky
When you see him tippin’
Round and round the block
Know that cat he’s very beat
Hip clean down to his socks
That cat is high
Boys, I wouldn’t lie
Oh my, oh my
He’s higher than a kite, yeah
Shoot the liquor to me, John BoyWhen you see him stumblin’
Up and down the street
You know that cat’s been drinkin’
Got no shoes upon his feet
Man, he’s high
Yes, he’s high, my, oh my
I want the home cookin’ mama with the fryin’ pan
I know that cat’s high, yeah
8. Smoke Two Joints by Sublime
Lyrics “Smoke Two Joints”
She was living in a single room with three other individuals.
One of them was male and the other two;
Well, the other two were females.
God only knows what they were up to in there.
And further more Susan, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn,
That all four of them habitually smoked marajuana cigarettes… Reefers!
I smoke two joints in the morning,
I smoke two joints at night,
I smoke two joints in the afternoon,
It makes me feel all right.
I smoke two joints in time of peace,
And two in time of war.
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more.
Smoked cigarettes ’til the day she died
Toke a big spliff of some good sensimillia
Smoked cigarettes ’til the day she died
Toke a big spliff of some good sensamill…”
Easy E were ya ever caught slippin’?
Hell no!
Daddy he once told me,
“Son, you be hard workin’ man”
And momma she once told me,
“Son you do the best you can”
but then one day I met a man,
He came to me and said,
“I work good and I work fine,
but first take care of head”
Whoa, rock me tonight,
Whoa-oh, Jah say,
Ohhhhhh ohhh ohhh ohhhh…
9. One Toke over the Line by Brewer & Shipley
Lyrics “One Toke over the Line”
One toke over the line sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
Awaitin’ for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hopin’ that the train is on time
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
Whoooo do you love, I hope it’s me
I’ve bin a changin’, as you can plainly see
I felt the joy and I learned about the pain that my momma said
If I should choose to make a part of me, surely strike me dead
Now I’m one toke over the line sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
I’m waitin’ for the train that goes home sweet Mary
Hopin’ that the train is on time
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
I bin away a country mile
Now I’m returnin’ showin’ off a smile
I met all the girls and loved myself a few
Ended by surprise like everything else I’ve been through
It opened up my eyes and now I’m
One toke over the line sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
Don’t you just know I waitin’ for the train that goes home sweet Mary
Hopin’ that the train is on time
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
Don’t you just know I waitin’ for the train that goes home sweet Mary
Hopin’ that the train is on time
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
I want to be
One toke over the line sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
Don’t you just know I waitin’ for the train that goes home sweet Mary
Hopin’ that the train is on time
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over line
One toke, one toke over the line
10. Ganja Farmer by Marlon Asher
Lyrics “Ganja Farmer”
Yes I’m a ganja planter
Call me di ganja farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Babylon come and light it up on fire
Me a chant
Yes I’m a ganja planter
Call me di ganja farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Babylon come, yo yo
Big stinkin’ helicopter flow through di air
What dem call it dem call it weedeater
Dem never did there when me wa totin’ water
Or when me did applying fertilizer
Yet outta di sky dem spittin’ fire
And I’m a little yout man, with a hot temper
Me dig up me stinkin’ rocket launcher
And in a di air dispense the helicopter
Me ya chant
Yes I’m a ganja planter
Call me di ganja farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Babylon come and light it up on fire
Me a chant
Yes I’m a ganja planter
Call me di ganja farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Babylon come
Tru Jah Jah bless I with nuff a good vibes man
And true mi a di artist with di ganja inna di land
Make doctors get nuff meditation
And so dem coulda give it to dem sick patients
Make chemists get nuff medication
And so dem coulda brew new medication
Make singers get some inspiration
And so dem coulda spread Jah message pon di land
Me a chant
Yes I’m a ganja planter
Call me di ganja farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Babylon come and light it up on fire
Me a chant
Yes I’m a ganja planter
Call me di ganja farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Babylon come (watch out)
So me say ganja ganja ganja ganja
If you no want to call it dat call it sensimilla
If you no want to call it dat call it marijuana
If you no want to call it dat call it di indica
And for me bun it in a chalice or a sheet of paper
Lord
That’s how me love me ganja
Yes I’m a ganja planter
Call me di ganja farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Babylon come and light it up on fire
Me a chant
Yes I’m a ganja planter
Call me di ganja farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Babylon come
Well it’s like ten thousand Babylon in one blue van
Wan come trespass on dis man damn ganja land
Ten thousand Babylon in one blue van
Wan come trespass on dis land
Ganja planter
Call me di farmer
Deep down inna di earth where me put di ganja
Me ganja ganja me ganja
Allow di ganja ganja ganja
Allow di ganja ganja ganja
Allow di ganja ganja ganja
11. Medication by Damian Marley ft. Stephen Marley
Lyrics “Medication”
Medication
Your medication makes me high
Just be patient
I’m like a patient trying to find
Levitation
Run your fingers down my spine
Elevation
Your medication makes me high
Hey
Such a short way up and such a long way down
Chalice it a bubble like we deh ya right down
The way you somethin’ nuff it haffi weigh five pound
Inna fields of marijuana that is my playground
I love you, Mary J
You’re the prettiest of flowers
Girl, me can’t complain
When I’m with you, I feel so high, I rise above the rain
And you no do people damage, like that bitch cocaine, no
And if them lonely, feeling only pain
‘Cause, your DNA is of the highest strain
Your effect is so potent, it’s so insane
You so gummy and sticky like a plasticine
When me grind out your body, only stems remain
And to love you is so risky, I might get detained
You always keep me flying on the highest plane
And anybody know, will always proclaim
Medication
Your medication makes me high
Just be patient
I’m like a patient trying to find
Levitation
Run your fingers down my spine
Elevation
Your medication makes me high
Hey
Your leaves of green, your purples and blue
A short little kids, adore women too
And I say to myself, what a wonderful herb
And I say to myself, what a wonderful herb
Look how Babylon so duppy, dem fight you fi years
Fi your love whole heap a man serve years
Babylon so duppy, dem fight you fi years
And now the whole a dem a buy shares
You should be a celebrity, amongst any tree
Across the seven seas, for your energy
But you’re an enemy, catching felonies
Of the remedies in your recipes, whoa
Medication
Your medication makes me high
Just be patient
I’m like a patient trying to find
Levitation
Run your fingers down my spine
Elevation
Your medication makes me high
Hey
Ask me how you feel, splendid indeed
With a likkle bit a black splendid weed
Her parents grow indoors, not a stick nor seed
And she never force-ripe, it was a real slow speed
No fertilizer, natural baby feet
No cross pollination, she’s a real pure breed
Cultivated in love and she’s not grown for greed
She’s everything I want and also all I need
Medication
Your medication makes me high
Just be patient
I’m like a patient trying to find
Levitation
Run your fingers down my spine
Elevation
Your medication makes me high
Hey
12. Knock Fia by Midnite
Lyrics “Knock Fia”
Me neva’ stop praise Jah on mi six string Yamaha(Yamaharp)
please fe’ tell I who blood seek you is working for
you get burned noo tell you knocka fiya
look into Jah house as a first time buyer.
Dem get sniper extract man way to go
fully dog trained black target death row.
Put down fe’ keep dem’ offa I herbs of scarecrow
dem was in the (ram jam cup lick?)
dem was in the (ram jam cup lick?)
Me neva’ stop praise Jah on mi six string Yamaha(Yamaharp)
please fe’ tell I who blood seek you is working for
you get burned noo tell you knocka fiya
look into Jah house as a first time buyer.
Most High redeem I up inna works
I neva’ gonna downpress Black people fe’ perks.
About one hundred grand seize yuh, from the farmers work
bad bwoy police ram page covert
bad bwoy police ram
Me neva’ stop praise Jah on mi six string Yamaha(Yamaharp)
please fe’ tell I who blood seek you is working for
you get burned noo tell you knocka fiya
look into Jah house as a first time buyer.
Uprising through the sovereign territory of self
open up the floodgates Rasta share the wealth
Inna biblical soliloquy eradication commence
Jeremiah lament dem incompetence
Jeremiah lament dem incompetence.
Whole heap a’ robbaman a (yah) federation league
So much fees fe’ so much different agencies
one fe’ de’ money come yah stick it up a please yah
Me neva’ stop praise Jah on mi six string Yamaha(Yamaharp)
please fe’ tell I who blood seek you is working for
you get burned noo tell you knocka fiya
look into Jah house as a first time buyer.
Shackle warfare you pencil (youth dem still do) dem where de’ work
ceremonial reward for the random gun burst
polift dem to wait for your rights in a clean jerk
off ite (avoid the) choppin’ dem wit Babylon lurk
uh off ite choppin’ dem a
Babylon Me neva’ stop praise Jah on mi six string Yamaha(Yamaharp)
please fe’ tell I who blood seek you is working for
you get burned noo tell you knocka fiya
look into Jah house as a first time buyer.
Uprising through the sovereign territory of self
open up the floodgates and a Rastaman share de’ wealth
Inna biblical soliloquy eradication commence
Jeremiah lament dem incompetence
Jeremiah lament dem incompetence. praise Jah on mi six string Yamaha(Yamaharp)
please fe’ tell I who blood seed you is working for
you get burned noo tell you knocka fiya
look into Jah house as a first time buyer
These time fatigue
These time fatigue, fatigue
Whole heap a’ robbaman federation league
So much fees for so much different agencies
dow’ one de’ fe’ de’ money (Dah one they feed the money)
come yah stick it up
Me neva’ stop praise Jah on mi six string Yamaha(Yamaharp)
please fe’ tell I who blood seek you is working for
you get burned noo tell you knocka fiya
look into Jah house as a first time buyer.
Me neva’ stop praise Jah Jah
Jah I provida
The end.
Just kidding.
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