Chorus
Afrika kukhala abangcwele
eAfrika kukhala abangcwele wena
Afrika kukhala abangcwele
eAfrika kukhala abangcwele wena
Hlala
Hlala
He was born in the African dawn and orphaned to the
land
So gentle in the eye he was as any woman's child
Repeat Afrika chorus
As he grew people told him, son , don't you trust
anyone
You learn how to trust a stone
This is not gentle and then it breaks those
Who never learned how to be alone
Repeat Afrika chorus
And so he walked in the fashion of his lands
Until at last he cried out
Can anybody hear me, hear me, hear the song in my heart
There's a song to be sung that can heal these broken
Let us sing and we'll walk through the dark
Hand in hand, hand in hand
Repeat Afrika chorus; move it up a half step or so and
So near yet so far away
Spirit of a new African day
Oh how we sang that song to be free
In our hearts and in our dreams
Chorus:
Woza Moya muhle
Sibambana ngezandla sibemunye
[Come good spirit
Let us hold each others hands and be one]
Eya eya
E Hlanganai eya
[Everyone come together]
Show me your anger and I'll show you my fear
Give me your hand and I'll draw you near
You've been down so long, I've been so long afraid
To share what shines beneath each African day
Keep the home fires burning
While Papa's earning the pittance he calls his pay
You've got to get up so early in the morning
To keep your job, let alone find one these days
Hear them sing in the streets now
Hear the sound of marching feet now
Chorus:
Sifun'umsebenzi -- work for all -- we need to work to be
Sifun'umsebenzi -- work for all -- there's a jobless army in the streets
Sifun'umsebenzi -- work for all -- in a wage, a hidden war
Sifun'umsebenzi -- funumsebenzi
Papa sits alone in the kitchen
Thirty years a mining man
He still has to fight for the right to work
Whether times are good or bad
Hear them sing in the streets now
Hear the sound of marching feet now
Chorus
Sifun'umsebenzi -- wo thina sifun'umsebenzi
We need work for all
Hum o hum
Chorus
Sifun'umsebenzi -- work for all --
we need to work to be
Sifun'umsebenzi -- work for all --
so many mouths at home to feed
Sifun'umsebenzi -- work for all --
in a wage a hidden war
Sifun'umsebenzi -- work for all --
oh a jobless army at my door
Sifun'umsebenzi -- funumsebenzi
wo thina sifun'umsebenzi
We need work for all
We want work for all
We need work to be
Give us work for all--
Journey's End (Emalonjeni)
Every day now when I wake up
You know I feel just a little bit stronger
I stir my coffee with the promise I'll find you
Although I know the road is much longer
How many times I've sat and prayed
I'd find some map to show the way
How many times I've felt each day
Laugh at me and just slip away
Chorus
I don't know where you are
My eyes are fixed upon your star
I know that that at the journey's end
I will see your face again
Indlela 'yasidedela
(The way is now clear for us)
Sihamb' emalonjeni
(we begin our long journey)
Another highway, another mile
Through the dreamtime, down the Nile
Under the desert sky blue
I have a picture of loving you
How many nights I lie awake
Feeling your footprints in my soul
How many miles will it now take
To fill this cup and make it whole
Chorus
Sihamba singadlile, lasho ithumbo
(We travel hungry, and our stomachs talk to us)
Ngaze ngahamba mina
Ngashona emoliva
[I have journeyed until I came to the land of Mooi River]
Umhlaba waphenduka kulonyaka
[For this year the earth has been changed]
Ilanga lakhipha umkhovo etsheni
[The hot sun drives creatures out from under the stones]
Imvula kayikho madoda
[Oh man, there is no rain]
Umuntu walima' mabele
[And a person has ploughed his millet]
Chorus:
Walima' Mabele [he has ploughed the millet]
Walima' Mabele imvula ka yikhoo
[He has ploughed the millet and there is no rain]
Madoda [Oh men]
Walima' Mabele uusizi lupbhokile
[He has ploughed the millet and destitution is rife]
Madoda
Walima' Mabele
The sky is clear across the land
Not a cloud for empty hands
Who has undone the rain?
Waiting for a windy day.
To blow them along to a land of plenty
Will I every see your people here again?
'Cause I heard them singing
Chorus
Families turn the dry earth
Burning, burning, burning
Who has undone the rain?
Can it be the answer lies
In a smile from forgotten times
Will I ever see your face again?
'Cause I heard them singing
Chorus
Who has undone the rain
I heard your people calling out
On the dry plains of Africa
Nothing grows, nothing shows a breath of life
Dry dust in the morning light
I heard them singing
Give them your love -- lead them to a land of plenty
Will I ever see your people here again?
I heard them singing -- I heard them calling out your name
I have undone this distance so many times before
That it seems as if this life of mine is trapped
between two shores
As the little ones grow older on the station platform
I shall undo that distance just once more
My brothers and my sisters have been scattered in the
wind
Dressed in cheap horizons which have never quite fitted
And for centuries they've traveled on a pale phantom
ship
Sailing for that shore which has no other shore
And they sing in Zulu
From their hands leap the buildings, from their
shoulders bridges fall
And they stand astride the mountains and they pull out
all the gold
And the songs of their fathers raise strange cities to
the sky
Where they did not belong and could not belong
And they never knew why
And they share with the swallows all their winters and
their hopes
But often they get lost between the highways and the
stores
And the rivers of the homelands murmur in their dreams
They're shackled to that distance till heaven lets them
And they sing in Zulu again
Well they could not read and they could not write, and
they could not spell their names
But they took this world in both hands and they changed
it all the same
And from whence they came and where they went nobody
knows or cares
Cast adrift between two worlds, they could still be
heard to say:
I have undone this distance so many times before
That it seems as if this life of mine is trapped
between two shores
As the little ones grow older on the station platform
I shall undo that distance just once more
Umbaqanga man won't you play it if you can
That special music
Umbaqanga man -- he's an African
He's got a special music
Chorus:
And we'll move it, we'll move it along
African music, wherever you're from
You'll never lose it -- the rhythm is strong
Umbaqanga music will move you along
Umbaqanga man can you reach me where I am
I need that music
Umbaqanga man won't you play it if you can
That special music
Chorus:
And we'll move it, we'll move it along
African music, wherever you're from
You'll never lose it -- the rhythm is strong
Ubaba Akalele (My Father Is Not At Peace)
Ngahlangana nomfo' kasibiya izolo
(I met up with Sibiya yesterday)
Wathi "We-Jonathan, angiphathekile kahle mina
(he said, "Jonathan, I am in a very bad way)
Ngiphupha ubaba ongasekho ekhomba inkomo yakhe
(I dream of my late father pointing at his ox)
Ngikhumbula engitshela ethi "wemfana wami
(and I remember him telling me -- "my boy
Uma ngihamba kulomhlaba wemfana wami
(on the day I pass away and leave this earth)
Musa ukungifihla ngebokisi (X3)
(do not bury me in a coffin)
Wemfana wami
(my boy)
Awungebesa ngesikhumba senkomo emhlophe, wemfana wami
(you should bury me wrapped in the skin of a white ox,
my boy)
Awungihambisa ngenkomo emhlophe
(you should send me on my last journey by means of a
white ox)
Inkomo, inkomo kababa, wo-ye-ye-ye!
(The ox, the ox of my father....)
Chorus
Akalele ubaba ekhaya
(Father is not at ease at home)
Akafuni ibokisi, ufuna inkomo
(he does not want a coffin, he wants an ox)
Akalele ubaba ekhaya
(father is not resting at home)
Washo mfokasibiya wathi "Jonathan lalela lana
(Sibiya continued saying, "Jonathan, listen here.)
Ngokushona kababa kwenzeka isimanga
(On the day my father died a most unfortunate thing
happened)
Abantu bomndeni babethi bayamdumisa
(Our family thought they would give hima great sendoff)
Bamfihla ngebokisi engalifuni
(and they buried him in a coffin, knowing he did not
want this)
Saxabana thina sodwa bomndeni (X2)
(we fought among ourselves, we the members of the
family)
Saxabana ngoba ngathi mina bayasithela ngebadi
(we argued because I said they had done something which
would bring great
misfortune)
Benkunzima ngelelolanga sifihla ubaba
(It was difficult the day we buried my father)
Benkunzima ngelelolanga
(It was difficult that day)
Chorus
Ubaba akalele ekhaya, ugudla isibaya
(Father is not at ease at home, his spirit wanders
around the cattle
enclosure)
Ibokisi lakhe selimbophile
(It feels imprisoned by the coffin)
Ufuna isikhumba senkomo yakhe (X2)
Ngikhanyisele weDlozi lami
Two humans on the run
(repeat)
The autumn leaves have trooped their colours
Rumours of the battle to come
Intelligence says you have departed
But my heart cannot give up its love
I'm living through a war in peace time
Dying to get through to you
Baba noMa...
Living through a war in peace time
To get through to you
On your face, love, days and sorrow
So long we struggled on
Baba noMa...
The heart is a shattered province
Pockets of love still hold out in the ruins
Old memories sent me reinforcements
But they were ambushed on high ground
I'm living through a war in peace time
Dying to get through to you
Baba noMa...
Living through a war in peace time
To get through to you
Why do you fight like this with me now
You fill the days with such sad sounds
Baba noMa...
Ngikhanyisele weDlozi lami
Two humans on the run
(repeat)
I'm living through a war in peace time
(repeat)
There's a life-song
All my life gone
In a mine song
I shake the world beneath your feet
Tholakele (A Girl's Name)
Wetholakele ngiyakuthanda
Wetholakele ungiphoxa ngento eyodwa wetholakele (X2)
(Tholakele I love you Tholakele
but you upset me badly over one thing...)
Wayifakelani idelela mawulahla umlenze
Wayifakelani ibeleza (X2)
(Why do you wear jeans and sell yourself in the street,
why do you wear bellbottoms?)
Chorus
Wayifakelani idelela mawulahla umlenze
Wayifakelani ibeleza
(Why do you sell yourself and wear jeans and
bellbottoms?)
Into-ni lo ongenza yona?
Uma ulahla umlenze, into-ni lo ongenza yona?
(What are you doing to me
Thandazani (Everybody Pray)
Johnny:
Eshe mfowethu! Ithini lenkunzana yasesemanzani?
(Hi there 'Bro! What does litte Bull from the place of
waters, say?
Sipho:
Hayi, noma izacile isandonsa-nje
(No, even if the Bull is gaunt and thin, it still has a
lot of life left in
Johnny:
Uthini mfowethu ngesimo esanamhlanje?
(What do you think, brother, about life in these
times?)
Sipho:
Ithatha osemsamo lamhlahla emyango ngichaza abakini
mangishonjalo
(Fortune has removed those from chosen positions and
thrown them
out of the house. I am referring to some of your fellow
countrymen who
were once in power.)
Johnny:
Ngibona abelungu betoyi-toyi eSandton bengasafuni
ukukhokha irenti,
uthini ngalokhu mfowethu?
Sipho:
Kulomhlaba omusha yilo usho okuthandayo
(In this new country of ours, everyone and anyone has
the right to
express themselves freely....)
Chorus
Thandazani nani makholwa
(Everybody pray, including you Christians)
Namhlanje kunzima-nyana
(for today things are a little difficult)
Abazusazi ekhaya mhla sifika
(our families will not recognize us the day we arrive)
Ngoba saguka endleleni njenge thaya
(for we grow old on the road, like a car-tyre.)
Johnny:
Egoli ngabona umfazi eshaya indoda emhlala phansi
ngemzuzwana
(In Johannesburg I saw a woman punch a man and knock
him out in a
few seconds)
Sipho:
Namhlanje isandla 'somfazi sinjengesendoda
(Today a woman's hand is equal to that of a man)
Johnny:
Egoli ngabona umnikazi wegalaji oswela imoto
(In Johannesburg I saw the owner of a garage who didn't
own a car)
Sipho:
Isicathulo se-shoemaker sicela ipapa
(and the shoemaker's shoes are hungry because they have
holes in them
and the tongue is sticking out begging for porridge)
Johnny:
Bengithi ngishela intombi e-Hillbrow yangibuza ukuthi
ngiphethe imalini
(I tried to chat up a girl in Hillbrow but she asked me
how much money I
had...)
Sipho:
Hawu! Ungakhohlwa ijazi lomwenyane, pasoba!
(Wow! Just don't forget the "son-in-laws' overcoat"
[condom], watch out!)
Ploughed the moon reached an island
Balanced on the edge of the sky
But something always stayed the same
Deep down inside
No matter where I've been the places don't count
Summer in a mountain town
No matter where I've been the places don't count
And I feel let down
'Cause nobody told me
Spirit is the journey
Body is the bus
I am the driver
From dust to dust
Spirit is a story
Body is a book
I am the writer
Together we flow
We hold on, and when the story ends
We hold on, until it begins again
We hold on, we hold on...
I never knew I had one
Till I saw yours shine
Spilling from your laughter
Sparkling in your eyes
Sharing my confusion, sharing my surprise
At finding part of me in you, alive
'Cause nobody told me
Spirit is the journey
Body is the bus
I am the driver
From dust to dust
Trying to be near you
Searching for a way
Listening to your life song
Before it fades away
We hold on, and when the story ends
We hold on, we hold on.
Spirit is the journey
Body is the bus
I am the driver from dust to dust
Now I'm falling, falling away
I hear you calling, calling my name
Spirit move on, move on
Pass my eyes on, on to the next one
I will be long gone, long gone
Across the distance, this divide
I will be with you forever
Till you reach the other side
So hold on, sing this life song
Sing "hold on, hold on, hold on
Hums
Zulu stuff that I can't begin to make out enough of to
put in, sob!
Where did the time time time go
My old eyes can hardly see
The green fields leaving me behind
I work the earth and turn the clay
With a strong heart and steady hand
Seasons wheeled across the sky
I turned around and found that I was old
Trembling heart, body cold
Wind and rain take their toll
Perhaps the morning brings a sweet surprise
A new summer will be born
A new hope in the dawn
A honey season, birds and bees
Singing humming harmony
Hums
The old ones gone before
Weep for those they left behind
Their tears fall to rinse and wash the earth
The heavens thunder everywhere
When the ancients dance upon the air
Armies march across the sky
Who knows if they ever will return I have dreamed of my
colored cattle in the hills
Of shields in fields of yellow and brown
The drums of Zambezi speak
They roll across the great divide
My future has been written in the sky
Smiling spear with teeth of white
Give me strength to face the night
Ancient song, bless my life
Sing me through to see the morning light
Chorus:
Bamba! Siyayilanda!
Siyayibamba siyayilanda!
Ngithi bamba! Siyayilanda!
Fetch it! Siyayilanda!
Human figures in a dream
I heard them singing "Siyayilanda!"
You've got to get up, carry on
Sing this song "Siyayilanda!"
There's a mean machine -- tear the bone clean
I'll tell you where I've been "Siyayilanda!"
Eat! Sleep! On your feet!
You're going to speak! "Siyayilanda!"
Chorus
Falling star in the night
Comfort the weeper "Siyayilanda!"
Turn to the Left, turn to the Right,
Losers, keepers "Siyayilanda!"
Hold me close, I'm trapped in
A night of seasons "Siyayilanda!"
New sun rising up ahead
Coming your way "Siyayilanda!"
Rain forest talking to the dragon-mountain-moon
Stars infest the heavens in the southern skies
Otter swim against the river, whisper in the water
The stars are dead and what you see are shining lies
Body-smoke tie the night in a misty web of blue
Simple things are all we have left to trust
An apple, a horse, some milk and a little bread
Will help time stop slipping through our fingers
Chorus
M-oh-hum-oh
M-oh-hum-oh
What you got left to trust?
Stones in the dust!
A simple thing you got left to trust
Someone in your heart singing
Crickets learn the final chorus of their night song
Standing at your door 'cause I have nowhere else to go
Tried to fill the empty spaces with my songs
Came here 'cause I know you also sometimes feel this way
I brought an apple, a horse, some milk and a little bread
I hope I will not find you smiling in a dream
Copper sun sinking low
Scatterlings and fugitives
Hooded eyes and weary brows
Seek refuge in the night
Chorus :
They are the scatterlings of Africa
Each uprooted one
On the road to Phelamanga
Beneath the copper sun
And I love the scatterlings of Africa
Each and every one
In their hearts a burning hunger
Beneath the copper sun
Broken wall, bicycle wheel
African sun forging steel, singing
Magic machine cannot match
Human being human being
African idea -- make the future clear
Chorus :
They are the scatterlings of Africa
Each uprooted one
On the road to Phelamanga
Beneath the copper sun
And for the scatterlings of Africa
The journey has begun
Future find their hungry eyes
Beneath the copper sun
Ancient bones from Olduvai
Echoes of the very first cry
"Who made me, here and why? --
Beneath this copper sun."
My very first beginnings
Beneath the copper sky
Lie deeply buried
In the dust of Olduvai
Chorus :
And we are scatterlings of Africa
Both you and I
We are on the road to Phelamanga
Beneath a copper sky
And we are scatterlings of Africa
On a journey to the stars
Far below we leave forever
Dreams of what we were
Hawu beke Mama-ye! Mama-ye!
In the beginning
Beneath the copper sky
Ancient bones
In the dust of Olduvai
Who made us, here, and why
Remember!
I'mm travelleing light, I'm going to Baba Nango
I'm leaving tonight, I'm going to Baba Nango
I'm leaving my crying behind, I'm going to Baba Nango
And when my people see me they will say
"Halala! It's the child of the hungry earth"
Chorus:
Wo! Halala halalo halalal!
Halala Halalo halalal ingane yakithi [halala child of ours]
I'm going back to find my eyes blinded by the night
I know a star that shines above Baba Nango
Im going back to find a lost child calling
And when my people see me they will say
"Halala! It's the child of the dark morning"
Chorus
Woodsmoke clinging to the evnings in Baba Nango
Warm bodies curled in a fireplace in Baba Nango
My name is on the lips of an old woman mourning
Chorus
Wo buye ingane yakhiti (Oh return child of ours)
I was the only one who witnessed my homecoming
So I asked myself: Brother Joseph, how've you been?
Then I met an old man who knew me as a boy
I said, Father, where're the people, where're the
homesteads gone?
And he said, Son, I'll be old untill I die now
And then I will join our people in the sky
I am not the one to ask the reasons why
Your brothers and your sisters have been scattered in the
wind
Chorus
And he said old eyes (mehlomadala)
You've got old eyes, boy
You've seen much too much for one so young
He said old eyes (mehlomadala)
You've got old eyes, boy
Child, from whence have you come? When I left that
mountain land so gold and green
I was a sturdy sixteen years
Work was hard and the wage was low
And the seasons passed me by one by one
And I dreamed, Maria, you would wait for my return
We'd build a home upon the rock beneath the smiling sun
But as the old man used to say when I was young
People come and people go, but the mountain still remains
Zulu chorus
Repeat English chorus
She's round like the moon, loves like a big monsoon
And she keeps me crazy
Like a great gondola on a midnight lake
She floats in my heart big and lazy
She says, "I'm your studla" (big lady)
I'm your cream cake
I'm your lucky packet
I'm your falling planet
I'll make your night sky dance for the sun."
Chorus
Studla sami sihle
(My big lady is beautiful)
Sizwana namatonkomane
(and she loves peanuts)
Studla sami uma sigida
Kunyakaza wonke umhlaba
(my big lady, when she dances
the whole world shakes)
Across her latitudes
Shapes of coloured moods
Magic geometry
An appetite for words
She talks the sun to sleep
And invites the moon to touch her sea
She says, "I'm your studla" (big lady)
I'm your rushing ocean
I will never end
I am your true friend
You only conquered me
Because I let you
Why don't you sing about the African moon?
Why don't you sing about the leaves and the dreams?
Why don't you sing about the rain and the birds?
'Cause mister I've seen
Chorus:
Mud coloured dusty blood
Bare feet on a burning bus
Mud coloured dusty blood
Broken teeth and a rifle butt
On the road to Mdantsane
On the road to Mdantsane
On the road to Mdantsane
I've seen a
Mud coloured dusty blood
Why don't you sing about the fish in the sea
Why don't you sing about the blue sky?
Why don't you sing about a fantasy
'Cause mister I see
Chorus
Siz feet under an African sky
Mud coloured dusty blood
Bare feet on a burning bus
Mud coloured dusty blood
On the road to Mdantsane
Soyilanda intombi yami kulezo 'ntaba
[We will fetch the girl I will marry from those hills yonder]
Nginezinsizwa [For I have young men with me]
Woza nazo Mantombana [Come with them Mantombana]
Intombi yami ikulezo' ntaba
Voices in the air of those gone before sing
"Mana Lapho" [Stand your ground]
There's nowhere to hide which side you stand on
"Mana Lapho" [Stand your ground]
The time is drawing near, can you hear
"Mana Lapho"
Chorus:
"Mana Lapho" we ndoda
Can you hear a long sungg sun of freedom
Bana manga we 'ndoda bathu iculo lethu sedifile
[They tell lies oh man for they say our song of freedom is dead]
Mana Lapho mana la
Mana Lapho
Mana Lapho mana hawu tiyoyo loo
Mana nans' indaba isho ngefreedom
[Stand your ground for here is a matter
And it speaks of freedom]
I am standing here -- you are there
"Mana Lapho"
In between the lies there lies the truth of what is just
"Mana Lapho"
In between lies there lies the truth of what is fair
"Mana Lapho"
Makhelwane (My Neighbour)
Impela ayikho into esifuna lemhlabeni madoda (X2)
(Indeed, our desire in this world for some truth always
seems to come to
nothing, men)
Ngibona abantu behlebana bezondana
(I see people slandering and hating each other)
Umunye uzonda umakhelwane
(each one in conflict with his neighbour)
Izinhliziyo zabantu ziyashisa ziyababa - ya!
(The hearts of all the people are on fire, they are
bitter)
Umunye uzonda umakhelwane
(each one in conflict with his neighbour)
Chorus
Izinhliziyo zabantu ziyashisa emhlabeni (X2)
(The hearts of all people across the country are on fire)
Sothatha-phi amanzi, sothatha-phi amanzi wokucima
lomlilo?
(Where can we get enough water to put out these fires?)
Wangizonda makhelwane?
(Why does my neighbour not get on with me?)
Sothatha-phi amanzi, sothatha-phi amanzi wokucima
lomlilo?
Down! Down! Down! Mad dog! Down!
Down! Down! Down! Mad dog! Down!
She loves the mad dog in heart
She doesn't love me
She loves to see it chase its tail
When she touches me
Chorus
She loves to tease it
She loves to make it barke
She loves to keep it
Chained up inside my heart
Down! Down! Down! Mad dog! Down!
Down! Down! Down! Mad dog! Down!
Mad dog howls when she goes away
What are you doing to that poor dog
I hear the neighbours say
I have to wait for her to calm him down
'Cause when I say "Mad dogdown!" he just growls
Chorus
Down! Down! Down! Mad dog! Down!
Down! Down! Down! Mad dog! Down!
I don't want a mad dog in my heart
I want to be free
'Cause she loves the mad dog in my heart
She doesn't love me
Long ago there was a sound in the night
A Kwela man singing under the street light
With a cheap guitar he gave his sorrow a smile
And he sowed his songs in the alley ways mile upon mile
Chorus
Ye hum ho la lo Kwela man
Ye hum ho la lo Kwela man
Ye hum ho la lo Kwela man
You gave it your life
Living low with the pennywhistle-tea-chest-base-gang
I followed him home and he danced as he sang
But now he's gone
Not even the slightest traces
Of a Kwela song
And the street is full of empty spaces
Chorus
Nobody knows did he survive the winding road
Did he find a song that took him back to the heartland
Here I stand lost in a memory
Of a Kwela man singing in the long gone twilight
Chorus
When I followed you home Kwela man
You filled my soul, Kwela Kwela
When you sang your song Kwela man
You gave it your life
Ye hum ho la lo Kwela man
Ye hum ho la lo Kwela man
Ye hum ho la lo Kwela man
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
All along the river
Chelmsford's army lay asleep
Come to crush the Children of Mageba
Come to exact the Realm's price for peace
And in the morning as they saddled up to ride
Their eyes shone with the fire and the steel
The General told them of the task that lay ahead
To bring the People of the Sky to heel
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Mud and sweat on polished leather
Warm rain seeping to the bone
They rode through the season's wet weather
Straining for a glimpse of the foe
Hopeless battalion destined to die
Broken by the Benders of Kings
Vainglorious General and Victorian pride
Would cost him and eight hundred men their lives
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
They came to the side of the mountain
Scouts rode out to spy the land
Even as the Realm's soldiers lay resting
Mageba's forces were soon at hand
And by the evening the vultures were wheeling
Above the ruins where the fallen lay
An ancient song as old as the ashes
Echoed as Mageba's warriors marched away
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
Ikiti esandleni ma izibukeli zonke zakithi
(tickets in your hands all you spectators who belong to
Wonamhlanje sizoqeda zonke izinkulumo
(today we are going to put an end to all the big talk)
Wezibukeli zonke ezakithi
(you spectators who belong to us)
Chorus:
Sibuza obani? Bengathinta ibhola lethu
(we ask who? who are they who can touch our football?)
Lapha sihlangana khona
(there where we meet our opposition)
Bazokhala abantu
(people will be upset)
Bazodela inkani
(their stubborn determination will be satisfied)
Ubani ongathinta thina
(who can touch us)
Sisho ngebhola webafana?
(we mean as far as football is concerned, boys?)
Singathi ukukhahlela kancane, kuzojabula
(we just have to kick the ball a little, and everyone
will be ecstatic)
Qina - qinani wezinsizwa kushonompempe
("firm up, men!" says the referee)
Anogijima nebhola elihle, izibukeli zishaya amakhwela
(you must run well with the ball so that the spectators
Gunship Ghetto -- steeleye stiletto
Feather Pillow Dream
Crazy boym your sister's crying
Tell me where the hell you been
Border Order Prison Warder
Mortar Bomb Daughter Scream
Gunship Ghetto -- steeleye stiletto
I'm going to where history won't reach me
To find where time stands still
I need to find some peace of mind
And if you let me in I probably will
Chorus:
Speak to the sky, there's no reply
Just the endless empty blue
While deep in the night, there is a fight
Hamba madoda! Aya hamba madoda
[March away men, the men are marching away]
Sodibana pambliyo sodibana phambili yo!
[We will meet up ahead]
Paper holder holds a soldier
Not yet born to be
But six months older, he'll be much bolder
See things he's never seen
I need freedom, just like the next one
But sometimes it doesn't do
'Cause I need you to be there
When I'm troubled
I need to see this thing through with you
Behind the barrel of a gun
Love and friendship can become
Just another point of view
The battle is won but my heart overcome
'Cause what is lost of part of you
Chorus
Hamba madoda! Aya hamba madoda
I'm just marching away -- just marching away
What do you say -- I'm just marching away
Sebehambile hambile [They have all gone, all gone]
Sebehambile hambile
Umhlaba unzima sodibana phambile yo!
[The world is a difficult place -- we shall meet up ahead]
I'm walking through the night
Walking through the night street
In the cool of the evening
I can fell my body heat
Moon rise to meet me
The night is a promise
I feel it to the core
Young and hungry on the street
Watching the score
CHORUS :
Fever, fever fever -
I'm walking through the night street
I'm walking through the night
Down past and old café
Walking to I don't know where
Watching the nine to fivers
Struggling to get their share
The night is young - the time is right
I'm a night street warrior
And the eyes in my head shine
With fever
CHORUS :
I'm a night street warrior
I'm walking through the night
Hum, hum, hum
Well I'm moving with the night street
Oh well I'm flowing with the night street
I'm dancing with the night street
I'm all a shiver with the night street
Fever
CHORUS :
I'm a night street warrior
I'm walking through the night
Hum, hum, hum
Well I'm moving with the night street
Oh well I'm flowing with the night street
I'm dancing with the night street
I'm all a shiver with the night street
Chorus:
Wanderers and nomads have gone to see their chieftains
Will this be the end of the rain and the birds?
Who can send an emissary to speak to the seasons?
For the ravens and the crows already soak up the
skies...
I'm digging for some words beneath the stones in
Zimbabwe
I'm searching for a drum song in the jungles of Zaire
I'm groping for the blood-moon in the mountains of
Malawi
Looking for the Lion of Ethiopia...
The setting dusk is darkened by the bark of the baboon
The frogs and the owls no longer call to the moon
The warlords have gathered, blue smoke hiss from teeth
of chrome
And the baobab lies trembling in the boiling blood-loam
The fireplace is broken and the grinding stone too
Its million pieces flung across the plains of Africa
Each dusty fragment a seed from which grows
The memory of a debt that only you and I will know
Chorus
Seven seasoned soldiers have been summoned from Saigon
A craven walkie talkie puts their bloodshot armor on
Some drink beer milk, some drink kinky-kola
Sheep dogs live in Outeniqua
Gun dogs in Angola
Flames lick the corners of each hungry horseman's smile
They have locusts in their scabbards and deserts in
their eyes
Passing through the air they leave a sea of fetid
rumors
As they ride across the skyline on a secret trail of
lies
Chorus
I found some words beneath a stone in Zimbabwe
I heard a distant drum song in the jungles of Zaire
The blood-moon spoke of war in the mountains of Malawi
But I never found the Lion of Ethiopia
Deliwe can you see the clouds rolling in
The wind in the north has changed and it blows your way
Whatever will you do when the rain starts to fall
Will you join the swallows and fly away
To the citadels of Europe across the sea
Deliwe would you go away without me?
Deliwe would you love me, would you leave me?
Would you leave this land that's green where your home
straddles the earth
Leave the winds and the blessing of the bushland? You
are a child of Africa, you are a wilderness
You are a jungle juniper, you are a flame lily
And as you walk in a foreign land, the songs of a road
gang ring
Oh how they sing
And that melody will haunt your days like falling
autumn leaves Zulu chorus The bees are buzzing in your
honey mouth
And I have drawn the water from your well
The deep rushing down while the night birds call
And the waters wash me on the inside
Wisps of the willow fall from your hair
Dreams and leaves of sorrow bequeath to you
By the deeds of your fathers hidden from your view
But in the north the thunderclouds would judge you
But you will always be a child of Africa, always
wilderness
And the sorrow that stirs your heart inside is the dust
of the regiments
But one day the skies will clear and eagles fly above
those you left behind
Oh Deliwe won't you stay a while with me Oh bless this
water bless this land, give us food to eat
Let our herds span the hills, let them graze in peace
If soldiers march across our fields, give them eyes to
The children singing in the sand, songs in the north
wind
And we will praise your name
We will praise your name And one day the skies will
clear and eagles fly above those you left behind
Oh Deliwe won't you stay a while with me repeat Zulu
chorus Fade out with:
Standing on the Earth seagull flying
Standing on the Earth the sky is bleeding
Standing on the Earth sun is leaving
Leaving us behind
Once there was an African love song
Helped us on our way
Made our hearts feel as strong
As the African Day
Chorus:
Bye bye December African rain --
The long gone summer has passed
And I hear the owls calling my name
The firelight has danced its last
Across your face my friend
And though I love you
I somehow know this is going to be the end
Now the sun has disappeared
And all that remains
An old tin mug and a photograph
So wipe away those tears and remember the good times
Hum oh
Standing on the Earth, moon is rising
Somewhere in the world -- spirit flying
Standing on the Earth -- leaves are falling
Taking us away
I never knew whom I could love more -- you or the land
Till I stood lost upon that shore -- naked and alone
Chorus
'Cause all the birds have flown away
The night is closing in
It's so hard to say goodbye to eyes as old as yours my friend
Where did the time go?
Can you tell me where did the time go?
time life show
life time go
Where did the time go?
Where did your life go?
Umoya wami onakele kunsela elangena
Lapha enhlizweni yami (X2)
(My spirits are down, a thief has entered my heart)
Laqegeza lathatha uthando lwami lonke,
ngasala ngingenalutho
(The thief has broken into my heart and taken all my
love,
and I remain totally empty, I remain with nothing)
I remember the summer but not the rain,
A memory of fire but not the pain
There's a vision in my head of a gun on the bed
A message in your eyes which your lips never said:
I want your crocodile love.
I'm on the runway and I'm ready to fly
I know I'm going to find you under the sky
Oooh yea, it's a mighty fine day
Oooh yea, you are coming my way....
With your crocodile love.
I want your crocodile love.
Umoya wami onakele nansi inkinga
Isingena enhlizweni yami (X2)
(My spirits are down, there's a problem
that has entered my heart)
Inyakaza ngaphakathi ingwenya
Ifuna ukungiqeda yami (X2)
(I feel it moving inside me, a crocodile,
it wants to devour me, I feel it moving inside my
heart)
I never quite know what you're going to do
Heal my soul or cut me through
Like a sacrificial lamb
Like a green marine in Vietnam
If you touch me now I will fly like a bleeding dove
Oooh... I want your crocodile love.
I'm on the runway, and I'm ready to fly
I know I'll meet you under the sky
Oh yea, I'll come from above
Oh yea, I want your crocodile love...
This is not the one
This is the one
In the history of all dreams
None has shone as brightly as you
Wrestling with your book of colours
Page by page I look for clues
>From the gloom of my dark window
I know one day I will make that flight, I will.....
Chorus
Step into your circle of light
Ye le le mama
Between Jesus and my ancestors
Between my tribe and my "urban cool"
Lies a bridge never crossed by any other
I cross that distance with my sacred shoes
Who needs the stars if you can see the moon
Because in my dreams you keep shining through, I
will....
Chorus
Step into your circle of light
Ye le le mama
I'll cross your ocean tonight
Ye le le mama
Into your circle of light
I will leave the house of my father
I do not dream there any more
Dance across the silence of the future
And make for tomorrow's shifting shores
I've got the wind to my back
I've got the moon in my eye
I've got the earth beneath my feet and I'm steady
I've got to meet the dealer and trade a lost soul,
I feel strong and I'm ready....
Shadow men from the outlands come to town
Looking for Bafazane
They want to gun him down -- oh no
They say he thunders too loud and his people are proud
They'll never give in while he's still around
And it's the sky above that he loves
Chorus:
They've got bullets for Bafazane -- They want to gun him down
They've got bullets for Bafazane -- Now they're searching the town
They've got bullets for Bafazane -- And the word's got around
They've got bullets for Bafazane
Eyes wide open in the backroom,
Finger on the trigger
Listening for any sound that will
Betray the silent deadly figure
He's got iron in his soul,
He's got a smile in his eyes
He makes dancing shoes from old car tyres
And it's the sky up above that he loves
Chorus
It's the sky up above that he loves
'Cause for him he's alive and that's enough
African sky blue, your children wait for the dawn
African sky blue, soon a new day will be born
African sky blue
African sky blue, will you bless my life ?
African sunshine, soon you will warm your children's
eyes
The African river water will dance and leap in your
morning light
African sunshine
African river water, will you bless my life ?
Oh will you bless my life ? (3x)
What can I know ?
What can I dream ?
What can I hope ?
What will the future bring ?
You shine through me, but will you see me through ?
African sky blue
African thunderstorm, your soldiers march through the
The African rain will fall and wash away all my tears
African falling rain
African falling rain, will you bless my life ?
Oh will you bless my life ? (3x)
The warrior's now a worker and his war is underground
With cordite in the darkness he milks the bleeding
veins of gold
When the smoking rockface murmurs, he always thinks of
African sky blue, will you see him through ?
Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave, don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.
Long you live and high you fly
smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.
Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave