The tribute to Nelson Mandela and Africa
The five songs in this presentation are written down, so you are able to follow the words, when you are listening to this composition.
song nr. 1: Wake Up (click here for mp3 file)
Song nr. 1: WAKE UP
Wake up, wake up, Africa
may be to morrow its too late.
Wake up, wake up, Africa from your beauty sleep.
Fight for freedom, fight for your life,
fight like Mandela for peace, no war.
Wake up, wake up, Africa,
from your beauty sleep.
Rulers don't know what to do with such war,
- they never gave up with this friendship war.
No one can take an unarmed brothers life.
Rulers don't know what to do with such war,
- they never gave up with this friendship war.
No one can take an unarmed brothers life.
Wake up, wake up, Africa
may be to morrow its too late.
Wake up, wake up, Africa from your beauty sleep.
Fight for freedom, fight for your life,
fight like Mandela for peace, no war.
Wake up, wake up, Africa,
from your beauty sleep.
song nr. 2: WorkinŽ Man (click here for mp3 file)
Song nr. 2: WORKIN` MAN
choir: Workin` man, have your papers ready,
if you wanna stay out of jail.
Workin` man, don't object, don't complain,
if you wanna stay out of jail.
Workin` man, have your papers ready,
if you wanna stay out of jail.
Workin` man, don't object, don't complain,
if you wanna stay out of jail.
There will be an other day
where somebody cares.
Give you peace
and give you freedom, -a new life-
Workin` man, have your papers ready,
if you wanna stay out of jail.
Workin` man, don't protest, don't tell them,
if you will stay out of jail.
soloist: Workin` man, you're not allowed to
walk in the white mans land.
If you do not have permission, just stay away
choir: If you wanna stay out of jail.
soloist: Workin` man have to travel so far
from family and friends for jobs.
You have to take the right bus,
to take the right train.
choir: If you wanna stay out of jail.
soloist: There will be an other day, where somebody cares.
Give you peace, and give you freedom, -a new life-
Workin` man, have your papers ready
if you wanna stay out of jail.
Workin` man, don't protest, don't tell them,
if you will stay out of jail.
choir: Workin` man, have your papers ready,
if you wanna stay out of jail.
Workin` man, don't object, don't complain,
if you wanna stay out of jail.
song nr.3: Please, help us (click here for mp3 file)
Song nr. 3: Please, help us, oh Lord
choir: Lord! please just help us now, Lord.
We have suffered enough from all this hateress,
enough from this destruction, Lord.
Please just give us a sign, what shall we do?
Oh please, our Lord!
Lord! please just help us now, Lord.
We have suffered enough from all this hateress,
enough from this destruction, Lord.
Please just give us a sign, what shall we do?
Oh please, our Lord!
We are treated like rats with no name.
May not speak, put in jail for the same.
"Got no soul, got no rights", so they tell.
We have no life!
soloist: We, we are treated like rats with no name.
May not speak, put in jail for the same,
got no soul.
We got no rights, that's what they tell:
please, help us, oh Lord.
Please, we cant take anymore of this shame.
Need some peace, need some rest, in your name,
for a while.
We got no rights, that's what they tell!
Please, help us, oh Lord.
choir: We are treated like rats with no name.
May not speak, put in jail for the same.
"Got no soul, got no rights", so they tell.
We have no life!
Lord! please just help us now, Lord.
We have suffered enough from all this hateress,
enough from this destruction, Lord.
Please just give us a sign, what shall we do?
Oh please, our Lord!
Please just give us a sign, what shall we do?
Oh please, our Lord!
song nr. 4: The Bantu Law (click here for mp3 file)
Song nr. 4: The Bantu Education Law
soloist 1: Before the nineteen fifties,
the education went through the Missionary Schools.
Facilities were bad, we learned to read and dream.
soloist 2: The language was in English,
this was no good for the Afrikaans men.
It made the people free, to think and feel all right.
duet: The school wasn't obligatory for the colored child.
Less than the half of the children knew to read and write.
The school wasn't obligatory for the colored child.
Less than the half of the children knew to read and write.
soloist 1: Unsatisfied apartheid, would change this education:
"You are losers anyway. You're born to do that jobs,
we do not want to have!"
soloist 2: The rulers was afraid,
it's better with a law to stop the colored peoples dream.
"Stupidity is good, to get their culture down!"
duet: The school wasn't obligatory for the colored child.
Less than the half of the children knew to read and write.
The school wasn't obligatory for the colored child.
Less than the half of the children knew to read and write.
soloist 1: The Bantu Education
a law to move the schools to the ministry of hate.
Apartheid was the law, to get the people down.
soloist 2: The missionary stations agreed to give their schools
to the ministry of hate.
duet: The school wasn't obligatory for the colored child.
Less than the half of the children knew to read and write.
The school wasn't obligatory for the colored child.
Less than the half of the children knew to read and write.
Duet: improvisation
song nr. 5: Deportation (click here for mp3 file)
Song nr. 5: DEPORTATION
Painful songs, painful sorrows
when they took away their homes.
Sophiatown, deportation,
made with force, with a lie.
One hundred thousand people,
resettled from their homes,
got nothing left than sorrows,
painful songs.
Nothing, nothing at all,
just open wounds.
Dangerous times, dangerous people,
stealing their homeland, with laws.
Protest and march, -black people trying:
The answer was arms, heavy arms.
One hundred thousand people,
resettled from their homes,
got nothing left than sorrows,
painful songs.
Nothing, nothing at all,
just open wounds.
Leaders were banned, banned and defeated,
they got no rights, to say a word.
Ironhand, police and soldiers,
governments style, and its strength.
One hundred thousand people,
resettled from their homes,
got nothing left than sorrows,
painful songs.
Nothing, nothing at all,
just open wounds.