1977 studio album by Junior Murvin
Police and Thieves is an album by Junior Murvin and backing band the Upsetters, released in 1977.[5][6] Along with the Heptones' Party Time and Max Romeo's War Ina Babylon, this album is considered part of a Black Ark Lee 'Scratch' Perry-produced "holy trinity".[1]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Junior Murvin and Lee "Scratch" Perry; except where indicated
Original LP
- "Roots Train"
- "Police and Thieves"
- "Solomon" (Murvin)
- "Rescue Jah Children"
- "Tedious"
- "False Teachin" (Perry)
- "Easy Task" (Murvin)
- "Lucifer"
- "Workin' in the Cornfield" (Perry)
- "I Was Appointed" (Murvin)
2003 CD re-release
- "Roots Train"
- "Police and Thieves"
- "Solomon"
- "Rescue Jah Children"
- "Tedious"
- "False Teachin"
- "Easy Task"
- "Lucifer"
- "Working in the Cornfield"
- "I Was Appointed"
- "Childhood Sweetheart" (Murvin)
- "Bad Weed" (Discomix)
- "Roots Train" (Discomix)
- "Memories" (B-side of "Police and Thieves")
- "Rasta Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready")