Here are two of our mixed chorus pieces for our concert on May 24th. Feel free to listen and review the lyrics. Click on the picture of the music to download an MP3 of each song.
Oh, Yini? arranged by Anders Nyberg
Lyrics:
Oh yini, oh yini na? Oh yini na Themba?
Where are you? Where are you now? Where are you now Themba?
Ndakuthuma e-Umtata walibala ngo Tsotsi
I have sent you to Umtata, but why did you disappear? You were meant to be here with me. Tsotsis crushed my hope I fear.
‘Oh Yini’ is a song about “Themba,” a common name of a boy, meaning “hope.” Umtata is the largest city in the former homeland of Transkei. “Tsotsi” is the Xhosa words for “gangster.”