Deliwe

Deliwe - Johnny Clegg/Soweto Gospel Choir

Deliwe can you see the clouds rolling in

The wind in the north has changed and it blows your way

Whatever will you do when the rain starts to fall

Will you join the swallows and fly away

To the citadels of Europe across the sea

Deliwe would you go away without me

Deliwe would you love me would you leave me

Would you leave this land that's green

Where your home straddles the earth

Leave the winds and the blessing of the bushland

You are a child of Africa you are a wilderness

You are a jungle juniper you are a flame lily

And as you walk in a foreign land

The songs of a road gang ring

Oh how they sing

And that melody will haunt your days like falling of me

The bees are buzzing in your honey mouth

And I have drawn the water from your well

The deep rushing down while the night birds call

And the waters wash me on the inside

Wisps of the willow fall from your hair

Dreams and leaves of sorrow bequeath to you

By the deeds of your fathers hidden from your view

But in the north the thunderclouds would judge you

But you will always be a child of

Africa always wilderness

And the sorrow that stirs your heart

Inside is the dust of the regiments

But one day the skies will clear and eagles fly above

Those you left behind

Oh Deliwe won't you stay a while with me

Oh bless this water bless this land give us food to eat

Let our herds span the hills let them graze in peace

If soldiers march across our fields give them eyes to see

The children singing in the sand songs in the north wind

And we will praise your name

We will praise your name And one day the skies will

Clear and eagles fly above those you left behind

Oh Deliwe won't you stay a while with me

Oh bless this water bless this land give us food to eat

Let our herds span the hills let them graze in peace

If soldiers march across our fields