 Genius Lyrics
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Johnny Clegg – Third World Child
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Bits of songs and broken drums / Are all he could recall / So he spoke to me / In a bastard tongue / Carried on the silence of the guns / "it's been a long long time / Since they
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – These Days
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Yashimbawula! (the watchman's fire is burning) / What happened to the diamonds in your eyes / What happened to the hunger for the day's chase? / What happened to the electric smile
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Johnny Clegg (Ft. Savuka) – Asimbonanga (Mandela)
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[Intro] / Asimbonanga / Asimbonang' uMandela thina / Laph' ekhona / Laph' ehleli khona / Asimbonanga / Asimbonang' uMandela thina / Laph' ekhona / Laph 'ehleli khona / [Verse 1
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Johnny Clegg – Life Is a Magic Thing
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Life is a magic thing, yeah, yeah / Life is a magic thing, yeah, yeah, yeah / When the sleepy planet comes alive / And I wake up in the warm sunlight / There's a simple harmony to
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Johnny Clegg (Ft. Jesse Clegg) – I've Been Looking
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[Verse 1: Jesse Clegg] / I've been looking for something to lose / I've been looking for something to prove / Oh well / It's hard to even tell / I've been looking for a brighter
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Johnny Clegg (Ft. Savuka) – Dela
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Here Johnny Clegg uses beautiful imagery and illustration to explore what it is to deeply love someone.
From 1989’s Cruel, Crazy Beautiful World and featured in Disney’s George of
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – The Waiting
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Chorus / Here we stand waiting on the plain / Darkness has taken the last outpost of the day / Somewhere gunships hunt their illusive prey / And I know inside you feel the same way
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Johnny Clegg – Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
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You have to wash with the crocodile in the river / You have to swim with the sharks in the sea / You have to live with the crooked politician / Trust those things that you can
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Johnny Clegg – Oceanearth
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[Verse 1] / Standing in the hills / Below the valley lies / Watchin' the last rays / As the sun dies / I got mud on my boots / Sweat in my eyes / I'm standing on the Earth / Under
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – One (Hu)'man One Vote
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Bayeza abafana bancane wema / Bayeza abafana bancane wema / Baphethe iqwasha, baphethe ibazooka / Bathi "Sangena savuma thina / Lapha abazange bengena abazali bethu / Nabadala
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – I Call Your Name
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Oh no, you've gone again / I feel like daniel in the lion's den / Stone cold in the afternoon / So alone in the empty room / They say that four walls do not a prison make / I'm
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Johnny Clegg – Scatterlings of Africa
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Jericho
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You are a dreamer of dreams walking a lonely shore / Dream if you will but remember there are iron laws / However much you seek to solve this mystery / No one ignores the iron vice
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Are You Ready?
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Hawu! Bheka Mama! Oye! / Hamb'ugadile! (be alert and be on guard) / I feel a river in flood in my veins / I can feel your love in my brain / It wants to dance my life / Through a
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Johnny Clegg – Siyayilanda
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[Chorus] / Bamba! Siyayilanda! / Siyayibamba siyayilanda! / Ngithibamba! Siyayilanda! / Fetch it! Siyayilanda! / [Verse 1] / Human figures in a dream / I heard them singing "
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Johnny Clegg – Ibhola Lethu (Our Football Team)
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Ithikiti esandleni - / Ma wezibukeli zonke ezakithi! (twice) / (tickets in your hands all you spectators of ours !) / 0 narnhlanje sizoqeda zonke / Izinkulumo, wezibukeli zonke
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Johnny Clegg – Sail Away
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[Verse 1] / She fell out the sky / 'Cause she has no wings / She's not an angel any more / She dances through my dreams / And leaves me in the dark / And never answers when I call
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Asimbonanga
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Asimbonanga--------------------(we have not seen him) / Asimbonang' umandela thina-----(we have not seen mandela) / Laph'ekhona--------------------(in the place where he is) / Laph
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Moliva
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Hawu baba ngashada intombi yami esikolweni emoliva / (oh father I married my girl at the school on mooi river) / Kwashunqa uthuli kwandlovu madoda silwela lobuhle / (the dust was
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Genius South Africa Translations – The Crossing - Johnny Clegg and Savuka (English Translation)
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[Verse 1] / Through all the days that eat away / At every breath that I take / Through all the nights I've lain alone / In someone else's dream, awake / All the words in truth we'
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Don't Walk Away
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Dogs in the backyard / And the flies are on the wall / Thunder and lightning / But the rain don't ever fall / If there's a flower in this desert / It's your picture on my wall
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Impi
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Chorus: / 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
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Tough Enough
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Lomhlaba unzima, lomhlaba / [this world is a harsh place, this world] / Picture the end of a cycle / Here's the fire from heaven / There's a tired planeet closing down / No more
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Johnny Clegg – King of Time
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[Intro] / *Whistling* / [Verse 1] / I've been thinkin' about the way / I think about my thinkin' / I have a feeling that / Our little boat is sinkin' / I don't know any more / What
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Great Heart
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The world is full of strange behaviour / Every man has to be his own saviour / I know I can make it on my own if I try / But I'm searching for a great heart to stand me by
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – The Crossing (Osiyeza)
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[Verse 1] / Through all the days that eat away / At every breath that I take / Through all the nights I've lain alone / In someone else's dream, awake / All the words in truth that
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Johnny Clegg – Heart Of The Dancer
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I want to look into the heart of the dancer / His movements have a magic mystery / They must have a message and a meaning / 'cause he's doing something to me / Please don't let the
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Johnny Clegg – Africa Rising
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[Verse 1] / Keep this for protection / Deep in your heart / It's the Kalahari blowing / Under a southern star / There's a new day coming / I feel it in my bones / Africa Rising
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Johnny Clegg – Makhabeleni
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Ngikhumbula ngisakhula ngikhul'ekhaya / I remember the days growing up at home / Baba nomama, nobaba, nomame / Fathers and mothers, fathers and mothers / Basithanda thina
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Johnny Clegg – Jwanasibeki
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[Chorus] / Wemadiliza, wemadiliz' inkani! / Wemadiliza, wemadiliza wenzani! / Qed' inkani eyamadoda! / (iJwanasibeki langenzani!) / Wemadiliza, wemadiliz' inkani! / (iJwanasibeki
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Giyana
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Siyayibiz' as'hambeni! / Oh the river is wide / And the water is deep / Got no money and i can't get to sleep / Takes all my courage to look down that long road / I am going to
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Missing
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Burning tyres on the freeway / Noone in sight / Thre's a raging calm / Across the land tonight / Voice on the radio says / Another one's down tonight / It don't matter anymore
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Johnny Clegg – Utshani Obulele
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Utshani Obulele Buvuswa Wumlilo / The dry dead grass is made young and green by fire / I’ve come to this place / Where you stole my innocence / I was young then / But I’m older now
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Johnny Clegg – Africa (What Made You So Strong)
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Rain falling like a symphony / On the roof top of my heart / There's a movement in the whispering deep / Before the new dream starts / I see your eyes shining like a neon light
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – The Promise
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Electric chair didn't burn a hair / And the newspaperman asked why / And while the warden explain in great detail / The newsman looked in the sky / "i'm sure!", he said, "if you
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – African Shadow Man
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If you come to my house / I will show you something to see / It's a picture of a man / I used to be / But these days I'm running through the dark / Like a blind man -- what's
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Johnny Clegg – Daughter of Eden
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She's the daughter of eden / She's sister of hope / She's the mother freedom / She's the lover I know / She laughs and she jokes / She drinks and she smokes / And she tells it like
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Bombs Away
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It was a day or so ago / I saw him run into the night / And on his face, more than a trace / Of wild fear in the eye / He was haunted by a tragic dream / Of people in death
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Johnny Clegg & Juluka – Fever
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I’m walking through the night / Walking through the night street / In the cool of the evening / I can feel my body heat / Moon rise to meet me / The night is a promise / I feel it
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Woman Be My Country
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Here we stand on the edge of the day / Faces melting in the african rain / So many seasons of silent war / So many drowned before they reached the shore / Nothing is clear to me
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Ring On Her Finger
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Beyond freedom and dignity / Beyond the dying of the light / She takes me / Beyond reason and the trinity / Beyond the sun and out of sight / Oh no, uh no, oh she did it again / Oh
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Johnny Clegg – December african rain (live)
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Hum / 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
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Johnny Clegg and Savuka – Warsaw 1943
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Amambuka, amambuka azothengisa izwe lakithi, izwe lakithi / (the betrayers, the betrayers will sell our land, our land) / He was taken in the night / They came without any warning
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Johnny Clegg – Inevitable Consequence Of Progress
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Chopper standing in the clearing, fuelled and ready to ride / Captain in the doorway, telling us to step inside / Last minute check, all weapons set / Parachute and right sight
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Johnny Clegg (Ft. Angélique Kidjo) – Colour of My Skin
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[Verse 1] / I'm caught inside the colour of my skin / People see me from the outside in / It doesn't matter what I've done or where I've been / Like a promise unfulfilled I'm
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Johnny Clegg – Simple Things
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[Verse 1] / 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
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