It speaks to rise of Rastafarianism after the earthquake in 1907. Georgie is King George V of England. This was a very troubling time for Jamaica. And it laments the trouble the common people were going through. Marley would have been very familiar with this times as told to him by his parents and grand parents and everyone around him. The song is a lament to not cry- for better times will come, and remember the good times we had.