The singer goes on: "You go to workin towns, but when you return home, you failto pay your bride price. You are queer fellows. What do you go to town for - I don't sleep alone. and I am sorry for you. Oh, let me go, I do not want to stay with you bachelors. You had better consult the diviners and ask them to tell you your fortune." "Siambelele" means a sheep, so the singer's name means "Sheep's meat." The tuning of the instrument as follows:- 656, 584, 528, 472, 432, 396, 356, 328, 292, 264 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira. with external resonator
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This a traditional agricultural song. It refers to a person who is selfish in that she/he works less...
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"At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Si...
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"We intombi yazi khetela kwa mganami kwa sho umuntu. A ibanjwa ngamandla we mganami wam' kuyazitheth...
The song continues at considerable length. Another typical herdsman's song, "full of joy and full of...
The lute is made of a 4 and a half inch section of the lower part of an Ankole ox horn. These cattle...
It is supposed to be a girl singing. Muhiana is the name of the girls' lover. Tuning of the instrume...
He sings he once wanted to settle on a new farm, but there were so many people who came to advise hi...
The song recounts all the troubles of a bachelor. The Songe tribe is an offshoot of the great Luba g...
'I have no mother. No matter what I do, whether I pray or whatever I do, I am alone." The singer is ...
This song refers to that rare African phenomena, a girl who did not want to marry in spite of many o...
The singer makes only the simplest remarks in his lyric such as "Go to Jubeki" (Johannesburg). Self ...
The singer's theme deals with the things he wants from life and he gives various examples. He says, ...
"Intombi izonile kaNgwane. Ubongiyehla babe Ngubani lontshitshinpondo, Ayinihe emashangane?" "A girl...
This a traditional agricultural song. It refers to a person who is selfish in that she/he works less...
The singer sings to his lost love. He reminds her that he loved her even before she grew up. He had ...
"At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Si...
"Goodbye, I am going home to see my love who will cook plenty for me." Nyahinga, they said, is known...
"We intombi yazi khetela kwa mganami kwa sho umuntu. A ibanjwa ngamandla we mganami wam' kuyazitheth...
The song continues at considerable length. Another typical herdsman's song, "full of joy and full of...
The lute is made of a 4 and a half inch section of the lower part of an Ankole ox horn. These cattle...