Chorus:
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Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
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Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
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All along the river Chelmsford's army lay asleep
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Come to crush the Children of Mageba
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Come to exact the Realm's price for peace
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And in the morning as they saddled up to ride
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Their eyes shone with the fire and the steel
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The General told them of the task that lay ahead
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To bring the People of the Sky to heel
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Chorus
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Mud and sweat on polished leather
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Warm rain seeping to the bone
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They rode through the season's wet weather
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Straining for a glimpse of the foe
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Hopeless battalion destined to die
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Broken by the Benders of Kings
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Vainglorious General and Victorian pride
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Would cost him and eight hundred men their lives
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Chorus
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They came to the side of the mountain
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Scouts rode out to spy the land
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Even as the Realm's soldiers lay resting
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Mageba's forces were at hand
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And by the evening the vultures were wheeling
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Above the ruins where the fallen lay
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An ancient song as old as the ashes
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Echoed as Mageba's warriors marched away
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Chorus
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Impi
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Johnny Clegg & Savuka |