"Israelites" is one of those songs that occasionally flits through my mind, provoking brief curiosity - who sang it? When did I hear it last? (Mary Hopkin's "Those Were The Days" is another; there's yet another song including the lines, "It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack", which I haven't been able to peg either by title or by singer...) When I saw Decker's obituary a while back, I looked him up online and discovered that "Israelites" was his. I don't have any reggae in my collection, so...