Video Information

• Choir: Kokopelli
• Piece: Mama Afrika
• Composer:  Sydney Guillaume
• Voices:  SATB divisi
• Conductor:  Bruce Cable
• Sheet Music:   sydneyguillaumemusic.com/...  
• Genres: Classical, Folk/Ethnic, Contemporary, Haiti, Haitian, Creole, Africa
• English translation:
  
  Cries! The troubadour hears cries!
  The troubadour from the island of Haiti is asking why
  Why all the chaos in lands of Afrika?
  Why all the chaos in the island of Haiti?
  
  Cries! We hear...  moreEnglish translation:
  
  Cries! The troubadour hears cries!
  The troubadour from the island of Haiti is asking why
  Why all the chaos in lands of Afrika?
  Why all the chaos in the island of Haiti?
  
  Cries! We hear cries!
  The young ones are yelling: oh mother!
  Cries! We hear cries!
  The grown ones are screaming: woh!
  Cries! We hear cries!
  All the young ones, all the grown ones!
  We hear cries!
  
  They are crying:
  Mother, mother, mother, mother,
  Oh Mother Africa!
  Mother, where are you mother, where are you?
  Mother, mother, mother, mother,
  Oh Mother Africa!
  
  Day and night
  There is misery and nuisance
  Day and night
  There is illness and death
  There is hunger and war!
  
  Where are you? Where are you mother?
  Oh but where mother?
  Perhaps you dont hear us?
  They cry, they scream
  They scream, they cry
  They cry and yell:
  Where, but where are you mother?
  Perhaps you dont hear us mother!!!
  
  Woh! Mother Africa
  Perhaps you dont hear us oh dear mother!
  Mother Africa, but how you were so beautiful, where are you?
  
  The sun rises, the sun sets
  Nothing is changing
  Meetings here, meetings there,
  Nothing is being bothered.
  The misery is there why?
  Nothing is changing, nothing is bothered
  The misery is still there
  Why, why, why?
  
  
  Keep strength Africa!
  Hang on Afrika!
  Hang in there oh mother
  Hang in there oh Mother Africa!
  
  Mother, you wise one,
  Tell them, tell them how beautiful life was!
  Mother, you wise one,
  Tell them, tell them how pleasant life was...
  Balls of diamonds were showering rivers
  Bravo, bravo, bravo Mother Africa!
  Animals of all colors were wandering the deep woods.
  Bravo, bravo Afrika!
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