High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles "War" is a song recorded and made popular by Bob Marley. It first appeared on Bob Marley and the Wailers' 1976 Island Records album, Rastaman Vibration, Marley's only album to chart in the USA, at #10. The lyrics are almost literally derived from a speech made by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I before the United Nations General Assembly in 1963.The song is credited to Alan Cole and late Wailers percussionist Carlton "Carly" Barrett as song writers, and not to B