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OUR HISTORY He who rides a tiger Cannot dismount at will With sickle and hammer We drive the working class wheel Home and abroad Bringing all willing hearts on board This is our history This is our history Let me tell you Something you know best I re-assure you Your mind won’t rest When songs of our soil Reach the bed of your soul This is our history This is our history Our history is a tree Standing tall in a blind bush It withstood terror and misery Never shifted by a pull or push From the west wild winds That erode bones blood and minds This is our history This is our history Our history is a dance Where the dance suits the beat And the beat is tuned to the dance Gum-boot dance to the heart beat Following forefathers foot steps Moses M and Moses K wearing the three caps This is our history This is our history Our history is that child With ribs of a guitar strings Crawling into dust bins so wild Empty stomach empty dust bins screaming Screaming calling for Mama…. On all fours scrubbing bourgeois floors Mama This is our history This is our history Our history is that viva Mandela viva Tambo Armed with perseverance and patience It is that viva Chris Hani viva Joe Slovo Armed with endurance and resilience Defying bullets bullets and dungeons impregnable With fire burning the combustible This is our history This is our history Our history is this alliance Glued shoulder to shoulder with blood mould It is a history of disciplined commitments Tigers hoisting high a flag Black Green and Gold After a heavy pain full Apart-hate torrent And for a hammer and sickle we are adamant This is our history This is our history Our history is a proud song A song of no surrender For it will not take us long Socialism is our future Build it now don’t ask me how These Tigers know how This is our history This is our history Our history is a rainbow After a heavy flood When tides ebbed low And there is no more blood We shall sing and remember Songs of no surrender “Aulethe Umshini wame” “Aulethe Umshini wame” This is our history This is our history When we show Red card They cry Tenders We close the ranks They try Divide Give the enemy no quarter Give the enemy no quarter This is our history This is our history By Tshepo Semudi -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . |
