Which Bob Marley song was credited to songwriter Vincent Ford?

The Bob Marley song credited to songwriter Vincent Ford was “No Woman, No Cry.”

The song appeared on Bob Marley and the Wailers’ 1974 album Natty Dread and became one of Marley’s best-known compositions. Vincent Ford, nicknamed “Tata,” was a Jamaican songwriter and a friend of Marley who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, the Kingston community closely associated with Marley’s early life.

The credit is historically complicated. Marley reportedly said he wrote the song, and later accounts have suggested that Ford received the credit partly so royalties could support him and avoid contractual complications involving Marley’s former publishing arrangements. A court case in the 1980s ultimately left control of the songs with the Marley estate.

That dispute does not change the quiz answer: Ford was the credited songwriter on the published song. The title is also often written with commas as “No Woman, No Cry,” rather than interpreted as a general statement about Marley’s entire catalogue.