JAMAICA: Georgie of No Woman No Cry dies

Said I remember when we use to sit

In the government yard in Trench Town.

And then Georgie would make the fire light,

it was logwood burnin' through the night.

Then we would cook cornmeal porridge

Of which I'll share with you...

— Bob Marley

George Headley “Georgie”  Robison died on Wednesday night.  , aged 84. "...Said I remember when we used to sit, in the government yard in Trenchtown. And then, Georgie, would make the fire light, as it was, log wood burning through the night...”

Georgie lived in Trench Town which was an expanse of wooden shacks in the 1950s when Marley moved there with his mother from rural St. Ann parish.

On Thursday Ziggy Marley posted a video and wrote:

“Have to pay my respects to him.  He really use to do exactly what Bob said.  Man we enjoyed his cornmeal and sweet potato puddings, his porridge and boil eggs, his stories and yes he always had a fire blazing as youths coming up we gathered around it and ate some good food,” Ziggy wrote.

“JAH carry his energy towards the source the memories of him live with us. “and Georgie would make the fire light…,” he added.