Congo Songtext

von Johnny Clegg

White stone hidden in the ground
Gonna take a life before it’s found
(INDLELA YASE-CONGO – the Congo way)
Tribesman from jungle town
He’s heading down to the digging mound
Young man in the sun , dig for diamonds everyone!
Soldiers in camouflage , drinking and playing cards

CHORUS:
UBANI ONGAKHOMBA-NJE?( who can show me ?
UBANI ONGASIZA , MADODA , (who can help me ?
INDLELA EYASE-CONGA , NGIYA YASE –CONGO( the way to the Congo , I am going to the Congo)

Life pulsing with such hope , we digging down in the river slope
Shiny stone set me free , I’ll go home a Big Daddy
Freedom is food to eat , good strong boots upon your feet
Can you sneak a small stone by a waiting soldier’s hungry eye?

CHORUS
Let me lie with you a while
And hope this dream will carry over
A new hand to deal
A new hope to feel
My hands hold real seeds of a Sower
If I could fly ,across your sky
And make you laugh
I know I could be a winner!

CHORUS:
Here comes that feeling oh Boy!
I’m rising above the earth again
Here comes that feeling oh boy!
I’ll be delivered but I don’t know when

AWU! AWU! AWU!
HAWU NGIYAKHUMBULA INDAWO ENGINGAYAZI
(OH !OH !OH! I am remembering a place that I have never seen and do not know)
WENHLIZIYO YAMI NGIYAKHALA –my heart is aching
ENGINGAYAZI MINA –a place that I have never seen

Comets and clouds and red , red rain
Filling up my sky above this dark empty plain
Somebody reading a book, “God for Beginners!”
Looking around , I saw you ,sitting with us sinners
And so you fill my mind, give me a new design
I see your river-smile while I float like a feather
Leave what’s behind ‘cos all the words are spoken
It’s the Time of the Sign when the Code is never broken

CHORUS