1 Good Hope (Intro)

Far away from South Africa
Looking at the pictures - we did ya
Far away from this new nation and land
Thinking on the good times we spent
Some voices are still in my ear
Some music, some people, some time
Some situations that we may fear
Some food, some sea and some wine
Try to get these pictures alive
Try to make words to describe
Try to use all my phantasy
Try to explain ‘how are we...’
Far away from South Africa
Looking at the pictures - we did ya
Far away from this new nation and land
Thinking on the good times we spent
I know pictures and words are not real life
I know there is nothing like doing a trip
I know it's not that makes you feel the same way
As take a trip to South Africa for weeks and stay
Take these songs and close your eyes
Hope that sound makes you surprise
Take these songs and open your ears
These songs are about South African people
Their lifes their hopes and their fears

2 Have A Cup Of Beer

Walking thru Cape Town’s Townships
Somebody came up to us and said:
Hey you look so thirsty my dear -
Let’s have a cup of beer
Please come to my brewery and drink Bantu beer
Fresh made from our women - come it’s just here
We entered the house and a women filled up a cup
It tastes something sweet, something strong, we having a chat
They live in shakes made from paper, metal and wood
They live without running water, looking clean and good
They live with ten people in one room - shifts for sleeping
They havn't a job or a car or a garden or a place for loving
Please come to my house and look how we are
These young boys have no jobs and nothing to do
They havn't a chance to leave the dreadful situation so far
Our life is a dead end street - what should we do
They live in shakes made from paper, metal and wood
They live without runnig water, looking clean and good
They live with ten people in one room - shifts for sleeping
They havn't a job or a car or a garden or a place for loving
Please come to my brewery and drink Bantu beer
Fresh made from our women - come it’s just here
We entered the house and a women filled up a cup
It tasts something sweet, something strong, we having a chat
Walking thru Cape Town’s Townships
Somebody came up to us and said
Hey you look so thirsty my dear -
Let’s have a cup of beer -
I feel so sorry, we don’t have glasses - I fear





3 Monica
Monica works in the Zoo Lake
Restaurant until it’s too late
Monica works in the Zoo Lake
Restaurant until it’s too late
Too late deep into the night
But Monica said it’s alright
She knows how
She knows when
She knows everybody
And you know
Some day she will go
From Jo’burg away
She don’t like to stay
She fears criminals
Want to hijack her with the car
She fears that day is not far
But till the end of that day
Jo’burg is her place to stay
Monica works in the Zoo Lake
Restaurant until it’s too late
Monica works in the Zoo Lake
Restaurant until it’s too late
Too late deep into the night
But Monica said it’s alright
Monica came from Germany
She got down on her knees
For living her life totally free
Monica tells from Namibia
And she thinks the life is so far
Much more better there - ja.
Jo’burg isn’t sometimes a pretty city
Jo’burg is sometimes so seedy
Jo’burg isn’t the golden paradise
Jo’burg has sometimes a bad surprise
But: Jo’burg is free and fast
Jo’burg is now not past
Jo’burg has Arts Alive
Jo’burg is a endless Jive
Jo’burg has the Kieppie’s Club
Jo’burg’s music is so cool and fab
Jo’burg’s summers are so pretty
Jo’burg remains Monica's city
Jo’burg is like so many big cityies -
A mirror of the world
Sometimes bad - sometimes pretty
Monica works in the Zoo Lake
Restaurant until it’s too late
Monica works in the Zoo Lake
Restaurant until it’s too late
Too late deep into the night
Monica said it’s alright
She knows how
She knows when
She knows everybody
And you know
Some day she will go
From Jo’burg away
She don’t like to stay
She fears criminals
may hijack she with her car
She said that day is not far
But till the end of that day
Jo’burg remains her place to stay





4 Ouma
Peter’s wife is Ouma
And Ouma is mama
Of Peter’s three boys
The boys call her Mama
Like their father Ouma
And sometimes - Ouma
Shout her man - come on ya
Hey, hey Mbelengwa -
Where do you have your cigarettes
And Mbelengwa I fear
You drink too much beer!
Mbelengwas livin’ near Sandton
They have a new house
They changed from Soweto
They were proud of their new home
And many friends from Soweto
Yeees, Oau Kee - they come on
And happiness with everyone
Peter’s wife is Ouma
And Ouma is mama
Of Peter’s three boys
The boys call her Mama
Like their father Ouma
And sometimes - Ouma
Shout her man - come on ya
Hey, hey Mbelengwa -
Where do you have your cigarettes?
And, Mbelengwa, I fear
You drink too much beer!
Peter’s friend wrote me an E-mail
Ouma’s boys were seriously burned
And their cousine - she slepped overnight
And a petrol bomb flew into
The boys sleeping room - last night
Through the window - right
The boys and the cousine suffered
The house on fire - a big flame!
Ouma shout out - Mbelengwa!
Help the boys, the cousine, help me
Wanna run away - away from insanity
The children came to the hospital
Their wounds heal after weeks
Their house was rebuild after months
Their shock will stay for years
They never forget the flame
And - who did it - why
And what a shame
Who did it and why
Who you want to blame?
Mbelengwas livin’ near Sandton
They have a new house
They changed from Soweto
They proud of their new home
And many friends from Soweto
Yeees, Oau Kee - they come on
And again happiness with everyone
Peter’s wife is Ouma
And Ouma is mama
Of Peter’s three boys
The boys call her Mama
Like their father Ouma
And sometimes - Ouma
Shout her man - come on ya
Hey, hey Mbelengwa -
Where do you have your cigarettes
And Mbelengwa I fear
You drink too much beer!
Peter’s wife is Ouma
And Ouma is mama
Of Peter’s three boys
The boys call her Mama
Like their father Ouma
And sometimes - Ouma
Shout her man - come on ya
Hey, hey Mbelengwa -
Where do you have your cigarettes
And Mbelengwa I fear
You drink too much beer!





5 Mark’s Philippolis
Land, only land - and
Land, only land - and
It’s land, only land - and
Nothing as fields - and
Nothing as one street - and
And still Burenland - and...
...Somewhere, deep into the Freestate
Lives Mark with his family - and
Collecting records from every band
He loves the old heroes like the KISS
He plays the good old stuff like it is
It’s part of their life in Philippolis
Land, only land - and
Land, only land - and
It’s land, only land - and
Nothing as fields - and
Nothing as one street - and
And still Burenland - and...
Somewhere, deep into the Freestate
Lives Mark with his family - and
They live in the house of Lawrence van der Post
A house which was demaged and lost
They bought it from the Prince of Wales
They tried hard for that sale
Land, only land - and
Land, only land - and
It’s land, only land - and
Nothing as fields - and
Nothing as one street - and
And still Burenland - and...
Mark is a fan and he likes van der Post
But for the folks in his town - for the most
They have no idea about that famous writer
They did not know that Post was a fighter
For human rights and for all the black
They havn’t a common sense on that track
Mark lives on his own as Lawrence did
With his child and his wife on an island
Mark plays those days all good old songs
From the Beatles, the Kinks and the Stones
May be that helps him in some way - and
To survive in Phillipolis - still Burenland
Land, only land - and
Land, only land - and
It’s land, only land - and
Nothing as fields - and
Nothing as one street - and
Still Burenland - and...
And if you are on the way thru that land
Make a stop in Phillipolis - and
Ask for the house of Lawrence van der Post
Mark and his wife are very kind hosts
Have look into the house, stay for some days - and
Hear ‘Till the end of the day’ Paul Simon’s Graceland
(Yeah, Philippolis you really got me!)
Land, only land - and
Land, only land - and
It’s land, only land - and
Nothing as fields - and
Nothing as one street - and
Still Burenland - and..





6 Dealing With The Past
He worked ten minutes by car away
He dealt 40 years or so not so far away - yeah!
From where I live - ‘could reach him fast
His name was Alfred - he dealt with the past
Alfred was the public prosecutor for NS cases
And he dealt with Germany’s past and NS faces
He saw all this incredible things and crime
After all he was a man with a good sense humor -
he remains Alfred Streim
He fought against ignorance and forgetfulness
With lonelyness and sometimes with some success
But he got of all NS criminals only seven percent
He lives his life - his life for NS victims he spent
Alfred was the public prosecutor for NS cases
And he dealt with Germany’s past and NS faces
He saw all this incredible things and crime
After all he was a man with a good sense humor -
he remains Alfred Streim
Alfred worked ten minutes by car away
He dealt 40 years so far away - yeah!
From where I live - ‘could reach him fast
His name was Alfred - he dealt with the past
I met Alfred the first time on congress about South Africa
We talked about a country 10 000 Kilometres - so far
He said they have still fight against Apartheid and forgetfulness
I never will forget Alfred’s words - Yes, I confess!
He worked ten minutes by car away
He dealt 40 years not so far away - yeah!
From where I live - ‘could reach him fast
His name was Alfred - he dealt with the past
He worked ten minutes by car away
He dealt 40 years not so far away - yeah!
From where I live - could reach him fast
His name was Alfred - he dealt with the past





7 Soweto’s Shebeens
Saturday Night in Soweto
Let’s go to the Shebeens, oho
Say hello daag, hi and saubona
This people take care and wanna
Know where do you come from
How do you do - son
How do you feel - here
Come on sit down and drink a beer
You feel alright - yeah
Talking about Beckenbauer, drinking liqueur
And German soccer and Adolf Hitler
Talking about the distance of black and white
Talking about the years of the Apartheid
Saturday Night in Soweto
Let’s go to the Shebeens, let’s go
Say hello daag, hi and saubona
This people take care and wanna
Know where do you come from
How do you do - son
How do you feel - here
Come on sit down and drink a beer
Moon says I will show you how I cook
Come to my kitchen and look
Try porrige and chicken and what you like
You are the very first of the white
No whites have ever been here
No whites have ever drunken that beer
No whites have no idea what I mean
If we talking about Saturday night in a Shebeen
Saturday Night in Soweto
Let’s go to the Shebeens, let’s go
Say hello, daag, hi and saubona
This people take care and wanna
Know where do you come from
How do you do - son
How do you feel - here
Come on sit down and drink a beer





8 Tell Me The Truth
Tell me now the truth
Who has shot my boys
Tell me now the truth
I will hear your voice
They came in the night
They broke in my house
They killed my children
They destroyed my life
Tell me now the truth
Who has shot my boys
Tell me now the truth
I will hear your voice
Now - I can not forget
Now - I must live on
Now - I must talk about
Now - I must cry loud
Murder - Where are you?
Murder - Where do you live?
Murder - How do you feel?
Murder - Emotions of steel?
Tell me now the truth
Who has shot my boys
Tell me now the truth
I will hear your voice
I don’t want you forgive
But you know I must live
Oh Murder - I want you
On the Commission of Truth
Tell me now the truth
Who has shot my boys
Tell me now the truth
I will hear your voice
Murder - Where are you?
Murder - Where do you live?
Murder - How do you feel?
Murder - Emotions of steel?
Tell me now the truth
Who has shot my boys
Tell me now the truth
I will hear your voice
Our land need the truth
Take care only the truth
Oh - I wish I can forgive
Because - I have to live
Murder - Where are you?
Murder - Where do you live?
Murder - How do you feel?
Murder - Emotions of steel?
Murder - You broke my life
Murder - You broke my wife
Murder - You broke the nation
Murder - You want reconciliation?
Yes - we need reconciliation
No, no, not collaboration
Yes- we need reconciliation
Yes - to heal our new nation





9 The Perpetrator
Yes I am
Yes I am
Yes I am
Yes I am
I am the perpetrator
You may ask me - alright
How can I lived and killed
For the state of Apartheid
Yes I am
Yes I am
Yes I am
Yes I am
I am the perpetrator
You are looking for
That I tell my story
That will be your glory
Yes I am
Yes I am
Yes I am
Yes I am
I am the perpetrator
I don’t want tell anymore
You may say I am guilty
Doesn’t matter there will be
Our right
Our fight
Our right
Our fight
To bring back the state of Apartheid
I don’t need reconciliation
I don’t need - your new nation
I only want to have my right
Die for the state of Apartheid
It’s our right
It’s our fight
It’s our right
It’s our fight
But the Truth Commission said:
The decision is: nobody has the right
To die or kill -
For Apartheid - alright.
That’s our fight
That’s our fight
That’s our fight
That’s our fight





10 A Word
Sometimes only a word
may change a world
Talk about Justice
Do you notice?
Look at the people
Some are evil
Look at the evil
They are still people
Look at the people
In South Africa
Some of the evil
Still there - ya
Only one word
May change a world
Justice
Do you notice?
You ask for justice
But you must notice
They can not afford
They haven’t that word
Ubuntu means peace -
Peace with the devil
The peace with the past
To bring back at last
Justice for the nation
And real relations
Between all the nations
Between all the people
No chance for the evil
Ubuntu, ubuntu....


11 Soweto, June 1994
Spent a day in the South of Africa
A day so cold with rain and snow
Spent a day there with Peter and hope for shure
We will come back to
SO - WE - TO
A lot of these old TV pictures running
Through my head
But Peter told us - don’t worry
There is no more violence
Remember the Isac Morrison School
Some people were dead
It’s past, people take care
What they are living for
(Chorus):
Yees, come with me, come with me, let’s go
Into Jo’burg’s South Western Township
SO - WE - TO
We stopped in front of
The St. Matthews School
Children in the school yard
Outside it was so cool
50 or so running straight to us -
Yees, they did ya
Want to be part of the pictures
Of Cornelia’s camera.
(Chorus):
Yees, come with me, come with me, let’s go
Into Jo’burg’s South Western Township
SO - WE - TO
We’ve moved into a class room -
Little girls and boys
Look on the children’s smiling faces -
Into their eyes
Learning with so much fun
And creativity - indeed
Running English lessons
On their PCs
A few minutes by car away
From the St. Matthew’s School
Some adults learning how to run business
I tell you it was cool,
John and Maria want
To open a grocery store,
Yees, theses people know
Exactly what they are living for.
(Chorus):
Yees, come with me, come with me, let’s go
Into Jo’burg’s South Western Township
SO - WE - TO
At last Peter showed us Soweto’s Home
For The Aged
We asked a old lady
What has been changed?
She said: we live our daily life
As we did ever before
That change is the change for our grandchildren
Not for us anymore
She looked thru’ the window
With tears in her eyes
A Winter day - but the spring in her heart
Tells not lies
(Chorus):
Yees, come with me, come with me, let’s go
Into Jo’burg’s South Western Township
SO - WE - TO
(Everybody):
Yees, come with me, come with me, let’s go
Into Jo’burg’s South Western Township
SO - WE - TO
(Everybody):
Yees, come with me, come with me, let’s go
Into Jo’burg’s South Western Township
SO - WE - TO


12 Ben
No, I never saw a Township
No, I never trust to go
No, I never saw a Township
No, I never trust to go
Ben is a friend
And he lives in Cap Town
With his wife and two children
Ben is a friend
And he wants everything know
But - what - a Township, oh no!
Ben, we saw the Guguleta Township
Not far from your house
Not far from where the life is hip
Ben, we saw the Guguleta Township
Not far from your house
Not far from where the life is hip
No, I never saw a Township
No, I never trust to go
No, I never saw a Township
No, I never trust to go
Why do you don’t want go there
Why do you want to ignore them
Why do you feel so alone there
Why do you fear people are square
Why do you think they hate the white
Trust yourself - this folks are alright
You go as a rich man
You meet the people and discuss
You will find a lot of the poor
But you will find a lot of them proud
And you find - people like you
With dignity - come one - trust you!
No, I never saw a Township
No, I never trust to go
No, I never saw a Township
Yes, I know I have to go
No, I never saw a Township
No, I never trust to go
No. I never saw a Township
Yes, I know I will go


13 Bed & Breakfast
Drivin’ thru the northern part
Of South Africa
The car-radio plays a la cart
Paul Simon and Johnny Clegg,
Scatterings - singing la, la, la
Fields, mountains, villages -
Driving not too fast
Looking for a guest house
For bed & breakfast
Stopped at Sabie near Kruger Park
Looking for Bridget & Davids’
Soon it’s getting dark
A man with a big dog
passes by the way
Sorry - do you know the way?
The dog smiles and the man said yeah...
...Bridget & Davids’ sounds familiar
Yeah this isn’t so far
Yeah I know that place
Yeah I know their faces
Yeah it’s a good place to stay
Yeah, you must follow this way
Arriving at Bridgit & Davids’ soon
Hello, enjoy the sunny afternoon
Said the man with the dog
And his dog smiles like David
Hello, you are welcome
Said David’s wife Bridgit - and
Then at David & Bridgets-
Our nicest days we spent
Some happy days in South Africa
Some animals of the Kruger we saw
Some crocodiles and lions in mind
Some happy days in South Africa
Just scatterings now - singing la, la, la
Bridget & Davids’ sounds familiar
Yeah this isn’t so far
Yeah I know that place
Yeah I know their face
Yeah it’s a good place to stay
Yeah, you must follow this way
Bridgit & David treat us like kings
Cooking, served everything, endless drinks
Prepared lunch packages into the night
To make the days in the Kurger alright
Some happy days in South Africa
Some animals of the Kruger we saw
Some crocodiles and lions in mind
Some happy days in north of South Africa
Just Scatterings now Ñ singing la, la, la
Bridgit & David act in the old English style
It’s a place were the times stand still for a while
It’s a place were you want to stay for ever
There is nothing to compare - nothing ever
Some happy days in South Africa
Some animals of the Kruger we saw
Some crocodiles and lions in mind
Some happy days in the north of South Africa
Just Scatterings now Ñ singing la, la, la
Bridgit & Davids’ is a magic place
A place were the good old time stays
Bridgit & Davids’ is like in the picture book
A part of our hearts they just took
Some happy days in South Africa
Some animals of the Kruger we saw
Some crocodiles and lions in mind
Some happy days in the north of South Africa
Just scatterings now - singing la, la, la


14 Collecting The Money
Some curious day
Peter was on the way
To Cape Town from Camps Bay
Arriving some place in the City
Watched a band playing so pretty
For watching some times he spent
Nobody gave any Rand for the band
Then he had with them a little chat
Took his hat and at the end
He collects the money for that band
The musicians say thanks Ñ and...
Hey man you look so funny
You are now responsible
For collecting the money
Hey, hey you look so funny
Thank you so much
For collecting the money
Hey, hey man you look so funny
You are the right man
For collecting the money
Back on his way
From Cape Town to Camps Bay
Peter walks on his own
As a black taxi-bus driver stopped
And said come on
Hey man you are alone
On your way to Camps Bay
Come on - we are going this way
Hey man you must know
It’s much more better by car
Camps Bay is too far
Hey man it is too far
For a lonesome walk
Hey come on let’s talk
Peter took that car
And not so far
The driver said to him
Hey man you look so funny
You are now responsible
For collecting the money
Hey, hey you look so funny
Thank you so much
For collecting the money
Hey, hey man you look so funny
You are the right man
For collecting the money
Late home in Camps Bay
Peter came along his way
And told us his day
And all about he saw
His girl friend said come over
And where do you have
Your most exclusive pullover
Come over
And where do you have your money
And why do you look so funny -
His answers are something but not clear
And his girl friend said
Dear man you look so funny
You are now responsible
For collecting the money
Hey, hey you look so funny
You are now responsible
For collecting the money
Hey, hey man you look so funny
You are the right man
For collecting the money
Hey, hey man you look so funny
You are the right man
For collecting the money


15 Rainbow Scatterings
A land that hopes 
A land that sounds 
A land that shines 
A land with energy 
A land with comedy 
A land with mystery 
A land with magic on her mind
and a prayer as deep as time 
A land with tragic 
A land with criminals 
A land with animals 
A land for colors deep and bright 
A land for black 
A land for white 
A land for pride 
In the human spirit bright 
South Africa in my mind 
Hope you have won 
Your last fight 
South Africa ______ in my mind 
A land with sea 
A land with poverty 
A land with water 
A land with wine 
A land with nature 
A land for every creature 
A land with talent people 
A land with life and love as her teacher
A world in one land - can you see, my friend 
South Africa in my mind 
Hope you have won 
Your last fight 


A land for the good 
A land for the bad 
A land for some in the human race 
A land for some that have gone mad 
A land to live 
A land to die 
A land that provides everything 
A world in one land - that’s the thing, my friend 
South Africa in my mind 
Hope you have won 
Your last fight


16 Elephant’s Birthday Jive
(Intro):
This is the jungle called Kruger National Park
This is where I live, this is where I belong
Sing along and dance with me in my song
Called Elephant’s Brithday Jive
I was born hundred years ago
Ooh yes I was born
As one of the first elephant child
Living my life in the wild
I remember everything of my life
How I used to move so freely
I remember the hot sun, the wind and the cool night
Every tree in the Kruger Park
C’mmon lions let’s do the Elephant's Birthday Jive - Happy Birthday -
C’mmon leopards let’s do the Elephant's Birthday Jive - Happy Birthday -
C’mmon kudus let’s do the Elephant's Birthday Jive - Happy Birthday -
C’mmon giraffes let’s do the Elephant's Birithday Jive - Happy Birthday -
(Middle Rap):
Visitors we thank you for celebrating with us
In our beautiful land South Africa
But for the future of the elephant's family and all
Other living creatures in the world: don't kill us
Or take us away!
We elephants do not forget
The good days and the bad times
The nice people and the wrong people
Our roots and where we belong
We are Africa’s living memory
Survivors of civilisation
We are the animal nation
Thank you South Africa for saving us!
(Solo)
I am the elephant - hear me now blowing... (trombone)
(Groove)
Woza - woza we lion
Woza slyojabulani sonke
Come on - come on all
Let us dance the elephant's birthday jive
Woza - woza we leopard
Woza slyojabulani sonke
Come on - come on all
Let us dance the elephant’s birthday jive
(and all other animals: kudus, zebras, monkeys, rhinos...)


17 Sitting in the back of the bus
	Sitting with my bag
In the back
Of the bus
Driving forward,
Thinking back,
Looking left and right
No more fight
Driving forward
Sitting with my bag
In the back
Of the bus
Of the bus
Of the bus
Of the bus
Of the bus
Sitting with my bag
In the back
Of the bus
Driving my mind backward
Remember when grew up
In this land
Remember the years I spent
Sitting in the back
Of the bus
Discover new people
Discover their life
In their land
In my land
Remember the years I spent
In the front
Of the bus
Of the bus
Of the bus
Of the bus!
This South African bus had too many bad drivers
Following wrong ways
This South African bus needs all of the survievers
Following the new ways
When I grew up in this land
The reality was banned
No chance to meet this people
No chance to talk with this people
No chance to walk with this people
No chance to live wih this people
But now sitting with my bag
In the back
Of the bus
Looking forward
After a new start
This bus has now a good driver
Following with a new map better ways
We are all the lucky survivers
Of this wrong Apartheid ways
And you know
You can remain
And don't see black
In the back
With your bag
Of the rainbow bus
Of the rainbow bus
Of the rainbow bus
Of the rainbow bus
Of the rainbow bus
Of the rainbow bus