It’s the little things that give you away The words you cannot say Your big mouth in the way Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes Sometimes the end is not coming It’s not coming The end is here The night gave you song

Ye hum ho la lo Kwela man Ye hum ho la la Kwela, Kwela You gave it your life Long ago there was a sound in the night Kwela man, singing under the street light A cheap guitar, he gave his sorrow a smile And he sowed his songs in the alley ways mile upon