Bayeza abafana bancane wema
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Bayeza abafana bancane wema
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Baphethe iqwasha, baphethe ibazooka
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Bathi "Sangena savuma thina,
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Lapha abazange bengena abazali bethu
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Nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti."
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(The young boys are coming,
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the young boys are coming.
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They carry homemade weapons and a bazooka.
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They say "We have agreed to enter a place
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that has never been entered before
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by our parents or our ancestors
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and they cry for us, for we do not have the right to vote.)
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Hayiyaah!
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The west is sleeping in a fragile freedom
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Forgotten is the price that was paid
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Ten thousand years of marching through a veil of tears
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To break a few links in these chains
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These things come to us by way of much pain
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Don't let us slip back into the dark
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On a visible but distant shore -- a new image of man
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The shape of his own future, now in his own hands -- he says:
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Chorus:
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One 'man, one vote -- step into the future
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One 'man, one vote -- in a unitary state
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One 'man, one vote -- tell them when you see them
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One 'man, one vote -- it's the only way
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Bayeza abafana abancane
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(The young boys are coming)
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Hayiyaah!
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In the east a giant is awakening
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And in the south we feel the rising tide
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The soul inside the spark that gives breath to your life
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Can no longer be made to hide
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These things come to us by way of much pain
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Don't let us slip back into the dark
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On a visible but distant shore -- a new image of man
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The shape of his own future, now in his own hands -- he says:
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Chorus
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One (Hu)'man One Vote
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Johnny Clegg & Savuka |