Kingston, Jamaica ? Vincent Ford, a songwriter credited with composing the Bob Marley reggae classic “No Woman, No Cry,” has died in Jamaica. He was 68.

Ford died Sunday at a hospital of complications from diabetes, said Paul Kelly, a spokesman for the Kingston-based Bob Marley Foundation.

The song, which appeared on Marley’s 1974 “Natty Dread” album, was inspired by the Kingston ghetto where Marley and Ford lived in the 1960s.