One (hu)` Man One Vote Lyrics

One (hu)` Man One Vote

Bayeza abafana bancane wema
Bayeza abafana bancane wema
Baphethe iqwasha,
baphethe ibazooka
Bathi "Sangena savuma thina,
Lapha abazange
bengena abazali bethu
Nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina
voti."

(The young boys are coming,
the young boys are
coming.
They carry homemade weapons and a bazooka.
They say "We have
agreed to enter a place
that has never been entered before
by our parents
or our ancestors
and they cry for us, for we do not have the right to
vote.)

Hayiyaah!

The west is sleeping in a fragile
freedom
Forgotten is the price that was paid
Ten thousand years of
marching through a veil of tears
To break a few links in these
chains
These things come to us by way of much pain
Don't let us slip back
into the dark
On a visible but distant shore -- a new image of man
The
shape of his own future, now in his own hands -- he says:

Chorus:
One
'man, one vote -- step into the future
One 'man, one vote -- in a unitary
state
One 'man, one vote -- tell them when you see them
One 'man, one
vote -- it's the only way

Bayeza abafana abancane
(The young boys are
coming)

Hayiyaah!

In the east a giant is awakening
And in the
south we feel the rising tide
The soul inside the spark that gives breath to
your life
Can no longer be made to hide
These things come to us by way of
much pain
Don't let us slip back into the dark
On a visible but distant
shore -- a new image of man
The shape of his own future, now in his own
hands -- he says:

Chorus