And though at very least the spirit expressed in such lyrics as

Remake the world,

With love and happiness

Remake the world,

If you put the conscience to the test,

was manifest at the concert, the bitterness in Jimmy Cliff was not. A complete song from his latest album, for example, is devoted to hypocrites:

Hypocrite,

Stinking hypocrite,

You're gonna pay the price some day.

Words you speak from the mouth,

But your heart is telling lies.

However, these sentiments had little power over the audience.

IT IS THIS sense of evil in the world, and the ultimate triumph over it, that gives Jimmy Cliff's music its vitality. This moral struggle between right and wrong, the forces of oppression and freedom, was missing from last Saturday's concert. Perhaps Jimmy Cliff was too happy a man to sing pain. A man who started his career back in 1962 and is just now cresting as a star, certainly deserves happiness. But most probably the crowd was too happy--happy getting it's money's worth from good music--to listen to pain and torment. In any case, the catharsis of Jimmy Cliff's music was lacking: the program was too easy and the audience too comfortable. "We sing a happy melody," says Jimmy Cliff, "but it's sad underneath." After peace and love was accepted and thrown back in approval, he (swallowed in dimming darkness, in burlap pants and Spirit of '76 belt-buckle) left his stage in the guard of redshirted kids.