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ZIBUYILE EMASISWENI
Music & Lyrics by Mbongeni Ngema 

Zubuyile masisweni zonke seziphelelekhaya
I was born in the village where the cows go grazing
And the sheep come along with the people
Where the people call Wemame 
When you hear me talk this way, I come from that land
From that land of the beauty
Awuthulubuke
Sekukhono kuzangale amatsotsikane
Thulubuke omamenemene
Sekukhono kuzangale amatsotsiyane
I can see it coming from that mountain
Zubuyile masisweni zonke seziphelekhaya

AFUNANI AMAPHOYISA eSOWETO 
Music & Lyrics by Mbogeni Ngema 

What are the police doing in Soweto?
The young men are all dead
Oh my God, 
The children weep
Our fathers languish in prison
Our mothers are all alone
Where is Mandela, Mxenge and Sobukwe
Where is Mandela, Mbeki and Sisulu
Answer me if you can?

TALKING ABOUT LOVE
Music & Lyrics by Hugh Masekela & Mbongeni Ngema 

I am talking about love
To love thy neighbor
As you love yourself
Yes God loves you all
Every man, every woman
Oh
Everybody, every creature, every child and
Everything in the whole wide world
I know he loves you all,
Your brother, sister, mother, father
Oh Lord!
Everybody, every creature, every child and
Everything in the whole wide world
Oh Lord, my God
I've been searching everywhere
Searching for love, Oh Lord!
The Lord don't worry about your creed
Your color or your race
Oh Lord help us
You loved me when I didn't have a friend
You never let me down 
I am talking about love
To love thy neighbor
Everybody!
As you love your self.

SARAFINA 
Music and Lyrics by Hugh Masekela 

MEN: They call you pretty Mama
ALL: Call you pretty Mama
MEN: They call you pretty Baby
ALL: Call you pretty Baby
MEN: They treat you like a lady
     You smile for another gentleman
     
     But when I send you chocolate and flowers
     You say I make you vex
ALL: You give your junior sister de chocolate
     You give your junior sister de chocolate
MEN: You trow out me pretty flowers from your window
     You break me heart in pieces
     You make I wanna cry 
ALL: You make palaver Sarafina
     You make palaver Sarafina
     You make palaver Sarafina
     You make palaver Sarafina 
ALL: When you talk de way you talk
     Me body temperature begins to rise 
     Sarafina, Sarafina, you're de one

ALL: Sarafina when you walk de way you walk 
     Perspiration commence to cover me
MEN: Flowing down me body
ALL: Sarafina, Sarafina you're de one
     Sarafina, Sarafina you're de one
ALL: Sarafina please don't run away from me
     I love you Sarafina, I love you Sarafina
MEN: Sa--ra---fi---na
ALL: Sarafina please don't run away from me
     I love you Sarafina, I love you Sarafina 
MEN: Sarafina, Sarafina, Sarafina, 
     Sarafina, Sarafina, Sarafina
     Mama yo!
ALL: Sarafina please don't run away from me
     I love you Sarafina. I love you Sarafina
MEN: Sa--ra--fi--na
ALL: Sarafina please don't run away from me!


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MEETING TONIGHT
Music & Lyrics by Hugh Masekela

There's gonna be a meeting tonight
There's a state of emergency
We protest
this state of emergency
It was the President of State
Who declared this emergency
We protest
this state of emergency
Down with the army
And down with the emergency
We protest
this state of emergency.

WE ARE THE GUERRILLAS
Tutu is a guerrilla warrior
Because he lives in the bush
We will bombard the Boers
with our bazookas. Because
we live in the bush.

UYAMEMEZA UNGOMA
Music & Lyrics by Mbongeni Ngema

Sha-ah Shoom!
Sha-ah Shoom!
The Sangoma [Deviner] screams out painfully
Ahh!
Q-Shhh!
She says what is this evil spirit
in my father's house?
Oh mama!
Oh mama!
Quiet!
The herd-boys have gone off with the cattle,
driving them to the grazing fields.
Sha-ah Shoom!
They'll return when the cattle return from those green grazing hills and valleys where the ancestors safeguard them.
The Sangoma screams out painfully
Ahh!
Q-Shh!
She says what is this evil spirit
in my father's house?
Oh mama!
Oh mama!
Quiet!
Hahh! . . . Hahh!
Huhuhuuu
Hah-ah-ahh
Hey!

ISIZWE 
The Black Nation is being killed 
Oh the African Nation is dying
Won't somebody please take our
supplications to our leaders
ask them to intercede on our behalf to stop this carnage

MAMA
Music & Lyrics by Mbongeni Ngema

Those times of depression don't let them bring you down Mama
Those times of depression don't let them bring you down Mama
Those times of depression don't let them bring you down Mama
Mama mama mama mama we!
Mama wethu
Those times of loss don't let them bring you down
Mama mama mama
When there's nothing to eat, no soap, no money for the family
When there's nothing to eat, no soap, no money for the family
Mama mama oh! Mam Wethu!
Oh when you cannot find a job and you need consolation
Oh when you cannot find a job and you need consolation
Mama mama oh! Mama Wethu!
And all of us cling unto you and cry

KILIMANJARO
Music & Lyrics by Mbonegeni Ngema

Get down to the mountains of Kinshasa
Get down to the forest of Zimbabwe
Kilimanjaro Helele
Wo Kilimanjaro

Take me to the rivers of Limpopo
Take me to the mountains of Somali
Helele Helele
Helele Helele
Take a country ride on a freeway
Drive to the Transkei
Drive to the Ceskei
The valley of the thousand hills on my way
On my way to Zululand
The green on the mountain and the feilds and the forests
Stretches to Limbombo
Down to Mozambique
Wo Kilimanjaro

AFRICIA BURNING IN THE SUN
Music & Lyrics by Hugh Masekela

Africa burning in the sun
Somebody please carry me some water
Cultural directions catching fire
Yellow smoke signals on the horizon
Man the fire stations
But the rhythm of the drums, marimba melodies
The ululating women and the balafons
The foot stomping warriors and the strumming of guitars
Keep on playing on and on
The oceans and the rivers and the music
Will never run dry