[00:00.00]Stimela - Hugh Masekela
[00:16.49]Composed by：Hugh Masekela
[00:32.99]There is a train that comes from Namibia and Malawi
[00:37.44]There is a train that comes from Zambia and Zimbabwe
[00:42.81]There is a train that comes from Angola and Mozambique
[00:47.73]From Lesotho from Botswana from Swaziland
[00:52.07]From all the hinterland of Southern and Central Africa
[00:55.60]This train carries young and old African men
[00:58.50]Who are conscripted to come and work on contract
[01:00.98]In the golden mineral mines of Johannesburg
[01:04.55]And it's surrounding metropolis sixteen hours or more a day
[01:09.20]For almost no pay
[01:12.15]Deep deep deep down in the belly of the earth
[01:16.88]When they are digging and drilling that shiny mighty evasive stone
[01:21.18]Or when they dish that mish mesh mush food
[01:23.62]Into their iron plates with the iron shank
[01:29.31]Or when they sit in their stinking funky filthy
[01:32.47]Flea-ridden barracks and hostels
[01:35.16]They think about the loved ones they may never see again
[01:39.14]Because they might have already been forcibly removed
[01:41.35]From where they last left them
[01:43.14]Or wantonly murdered in the dead of night
[01:46.01]By roving marauding gangs of no particular origin
[01:51.03]We are told
[01:54.09]They think about their lands and their herds
[01:56.32]That were taken away from them
[01:57.97]With the gun and the bomb and the teargas the gatling and the cannon
[02:04.46]And when they hear that Choo-Choo train
[02:07.29]A chugging and a pumping and a smoking and a pushing a pumping
[02:11.19]A crying and a steaming and a chugging and a whooo whooo
[02:18.91]They always cuss and they curse the coal train
[02:24.45]The coal train that brought them to Johannesburg whooo whooo
[06:03.47]Stimela
[06:05.10]Sihamba ngamalahle
[06:09.41]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[06:16.93]Sangilahla kwaGuqa
[06:21.83]Bathi sizoba amalahle
[06:25.60]Sizoba amalahle
[06:28.50]Stimela
[06:32.48]Sihamba ngamalahle
[06:36.61]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[06:44.11]Sangilahla kwaGuqa
[06:48.48]Bathi sizoba amalahle
[06:53.02]Sizoba amalahle
[06:55.85]Iyohhh
[07:02.24]Sidl' inyol' enkomponi
[07:08.23]Stimela
[07:11.55]Sihleli njengezinja siyelele mame
[07:17.56]Emikodini mama
[07:21.41]Bathi stimela
[07:25.14]Sikhalel' izihlobo zethu
[07:30.04]Masibuyele le eTalakubayi
[07:31.84]Sikhalel' izingane zethu wololo
[07:36.56]Masibuyele le eTalakubayi
[07:38.36]Sikhalela macheri wethu mama oh
[07:43.38]Masibuyele le eTalakubayi
[07:45.25]Sikhalel' abazali bethu
[07:48.90]Yelele yelele yelele yelele yelele
[07:52.34]Stimela
[07:53.46]Sihamba ngamalahle
[07:57.47]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[08:06.39]Stimela
[08:07.90]Sihamba ngamalahle
[08:11.52]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[08:20.14]Stimela
[08:21.60]Sihamba ngamalahle
[08:25.26]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[08:26.35]Helele bathi Stimela Stimela Stimela Stimela Stimela mawo
[08:33.51]Stimela
[08:34.64]Sihamba ngamalahle
[08:38.37]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[08:44.27]Bathi Stimela mawo
[08:46.30]Stimela
[08:47.62]Sihamba ngamalahle
[08:51.26]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[08:55.41]Whooo whooo
[08:59.72]Stimela
[09:00.97]Sihamba ngamalahle
[09:04.62]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[09:13.35]Stimela
[09:14.75]Sihamba ngamalahle
[09:18.45]Sivel' eTalakubayi
[09:37.87]Whooo whooo