Johnny Clegg- Congo Lyrics

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