The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38641   Message #2528900
Posted By: Azizi
01-Jan-09 - 06:13 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Shosholoza
Subject: RE: Origins: Shosholoza
Here's a link to a YouTube video of Ladysmith Black Mombaza* singing "Shosholoza":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVaITJZfr54

*The information about the name of the group singing is from the video's tags.

-snip-

Btw, the video contributor indicated that most but not all of the photos that accompany this sound track are from Africa.

Btw2, here is a partial transcription and translation that were posted by two different viewers of that video:

"Shosholoza
Ku lezontaba
Stimela siphum' eSouth Africa
Wen' uyabaleka
Wen' uyabaleka
Ku lezontaba
Stimela siphum' eSouth Africa"

-snip-

"the words mean

"go train go in those mountains
the train from south africa

you are running in those mountains
the train from south africa"