Hello everyone,
I have just come back from a lovely time at our local museum, where they had African story-telling. They taught us a beautiful lullaby, which brough tears to my eyes. I would love to find out all the words and the full translation, have tried to do a google search but no joy really. Here's what I remember but please forgive my awful spelling of the non-English bits. The chorus went "Thula too thula twana thula sana; thul too thula twana thula baba" (Thula is pronounced just T - got the spelling from some of my searches) this bit roughtly translates as hush my baby go to sleep - then something about the father (baba). The next bit is the tear jerker - it was sung by mothers whose husbands worked away in the mines: "The rocks and stone stay the same, my love, your children grow but you're not here my love....the children change but you don't see my love...." and I can't remember the rest. I know it's a long short but anyone know it?