These are songs I learnt at community choirs in Brighton and Bangor.
Siyahamb' ekukhanyen' kwenkos' x4
Siyahamba, hamba, x2
Siyahamb' ekukhanyen' kwenkos'
We are marching in the light of God.
Hamba nathi Mkhululi wethu x4
Mkhululi, Mkhululi, Mkhululi wethu x4
Stay with us our saviour/redeemer/liberator.
This is a song from Zimbabwe in Ndebele. It is sung by people who have to walk from Matabeleland to work in the gold mines of South Africa, crossing the Limpopo River (ingululkudela) on the way.
Sayiwela, sayiwela
Sayiwela sibili
Sayiwela Ingulukudela
Siyofuna imali
Baphina obaba? / okoko?
Basemazulwini
Basitshiyel'indubeko
Indubeko zomhlaba
We crossed it, we crossed it
We really crossed it
We crossed Ingulukudela
To look for money
Where are those fathers? / mothers?
They are in heaven
They left us problems
These earthly difficulties
Listen to a recording of this song (recorded live at Sing for Water, London 2009)
This is a protest song from the days of Apartheid in South Africa.
Senzeni na?
What have we done?
Sono sethu, ubumyama?
Our sin is that we are black?
Sono sethu yinyaniso?
Our sin is the truth
Sibulawayo
They are killing us
Mayibuye i Africa
Let Africa return
Listen to a recording of this song (Bangor Community Choir)
This is a traditional Southern African folk song traditionally sung by all-male work gangs in a call and response style.
Shosholoza
Ku lezontaba
Stimela siphum' eSouth Africa
Wen' uyabaleka
Wen' uyabaleka
Ku lezontaba
Stimela siphum' eSouth Africa
Move fast
on those mountains
train from South Africa.
You are running away
on those mountains
train from South Africa.
Listen to a recording of this song (Bangor Community Choir)
Other versions of these songs
http://ingeb.org/spiritua/siyahamb.html
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Siyahamba_(Anonymous)
http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/senzenina-a-zulu-protest-song-and-funeral-song/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shosholoza
Recordings of these songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5l_VBEIbEM
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/198165-Music-Inspirational
http://www.kwasizabantu.com/audio/music/learn_some_zulu_choruses_.htm
http://bitmunk.com/view/media/6463337
http://www.chrishoskins.co.uk/terrified.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXoMaE-xCKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2KNNdQ1FyI
Zulu songs
http://www.kwasizabantu.com/audio/music/music_clips.htm
Songs in the languages of South Africa (Afrikaans - Zulu)
http://www.ksb.org.za/audio/words/ksbchoir_index.htm
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