Seven Lifes
[00:08.80] (prolonged Instrumentals)
[00:18.00] (Trumpeted🎺Instrumentals)
[00:41.80] In my journey through the world,
[00:43.70] over land and over sea
[00:46.00] I see different cultures and different people's ways
[00:50.80] I was born where the sun
[00:52.85] never sets and never rises
[00:54.98] I was born where the heat is like a second skin
[01:00.00] (Instrumentals🎺)
[01:17.00] Children crying on the streets, automobiles are making noise
[01:22.00] The land is growing dry and weak, spirits dying low
[01:27.00] The forefathers are calling me: never tire, never weaken
[01:31.50] The pride in me is bursting loose,
[01:33.80] I'm an African boy
[01:38.85] (Instrumentals🎺)
[01:54.00] On the farm, my father called me down behind a tree
[01:58.50] He said, "Prostrate at my feet and say a few prayers"
[02:03.50] Then he told me all the stories of my brave ancestors
[02:08.00] Said, "Look into my eyes, son, you were born to be great"
[02:12.30] So in the twilight I went home behind my father with a hoe
[02:17.00] Listening to the songs of birds, whispers of the night
[02:21.00] I was singing, "Seven goats, seven beads
[02:24.00] Seven cowries, seven nuts
[02:26.20] Seven lives that's what I've got,
[02:28.50] I'm an African boy
[02:30.80] Over sea, over land,
[02:33.00] over mountains and in the wild
[02:35.20] I'll be brave, and I'll be strong,
[02:37.50] I'm an African boy"
[02:40.00] (Instrumentals🎺🎷)
[03:20.00] In the evening, mother called me down into her hut
[03:24.60] She said, "Lay upon my bosom and say a few prayers"
[03:29.30] Then she told me to go forward, never looking back
[03:33.90] "The spirits are with you, and you will never fail"
[03:38.34] So I go into the world, into the deeps, into the wild
[03:43.00] In the marketplace, I danced the sound of bata
[03:47.00] Dancing - seven jumps, seven wriggles
[03:49.70] Seven cowries, seven nuts
[03:52.00] Seven lifes, that's what I've got
[03:54.10] I'm an African boy
[03:57.00] Over sea, over land, over mountains and in the wild
[04:01.00] I'll be brave, and I'll be strong,
[04:03.00] I'm an African boy
[04:08.00] Instrumentals
[04:56.00] Seven goats, seven beads
[04:58.70] Seven cowries, seven nuts
[05:01.10] Seven lifes that's what I've got,
[05:03.10] I'm an African boy
[05:05.00] Over sea, over land,
[05:07.50] over mountains and in the wild
[05:09.55] I'll be brave, and I'll be strong,
[05:12.00] I'm an African boy
[05:13.50] I said I can feel it deep in my soul (seven jumps, seven wriggles)
[05:16.00] Seven cowries, seven nuts (its African)
[05:18.50] Seven lifes, that's what I've got (I said I can feel it deep in my soul)
[05:20.70] I'm an African boy (I was born to be great)
[05:23.00] I can see it deep in my soul (over sea, over land)
[05:25.00] This African boy (over mountains and in the wild)
[05:27.20] I can see it deep in my soul (I'll be brave, and I'll be strong,)
[05:29.05] The future will ignite (I'm an African boy)
[05:31.40] Seven goats, seven beads
[05:33.80] Seven cowries, seven nuts
[05:36.00] Seven lifes that's what I've got,
[05:38.00] I'm an African boy
[05:40.00] Over sea, over land,
[05:42.40] over mountains and in the wild
[05:44.60] I'll be brave, and I'll be strong,
[05:46.80] I'm an African boy
[05:49.00] Seven jumps, seven wriggles
[05:51.20] Seven cowries, seven nuts
[05:53.50] Seven lifes, that's what I've got
[05:55.50] I'm an African boy
[05:57.65] Over sea, over land,
[06:00.00] over mountains and in the wild
[06:02.10] I'll be brave, and I'll be strong,
[06:04.35] I'm an African boy
[06:06.50] Seven goats, seven beads
[06:08.80] Seven cowries, seven nuts
[06:11.00] Seven lifes that's what I've got,
[06:13.15] I'm an African boy
[06:15.50] Over sea, over land,
[06:17.50] over mountains and in the wild
[06:19.70] I'll be brave, and I'll be strong,
[06:21.85] I'm an African boy
