| Kukhuluma umlungu
| A white man is speaking
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| Angikutholi sthandwa sami
| I can't find you my love
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| Kukhuluma umlungu efonini
| A white man is speaking on the phone
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| Yakhal' ifoni sthandwa sami
| The phone rang my dear
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| Iyakhal' ifoni lavi yo
| The phone is ringing
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| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini
| You don't come back to the house anymore
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| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini
| You don't come back to the house anymore
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| Yakhal' ifoni sthandwa sami
| The phone rang my dear
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| Iyakhal' ifoni lavi yo
| The phone is ringing
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| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini
| You don't come back to the house anymore
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| Awusalali kulamalanga endlini
| You no longer sleep in the sun at home
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| Lwagilaya uthando ngingazi
| It was love that I didn't know
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| Ngagcina ngishad' Umachamubhiya
| I ended up marrying Umachumbhiya
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| Lwagilaya uthandoluni kanti
| It was a love affair
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| Ngagcina ngishad' Umachamubhiya
| I ended up marrying Umachumbhiya
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| Ngisizeni bantu bakithi yo
| Help my people
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| Ngisizeni bantu bakithi
| Help my people
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| Shun wenkabi, eshu
| Shun of the ox, ouch
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| Bathi mtanomuntu kaze kwakhala nyonini?
| They say, man, when did a bird cry?
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| Ngangithi ngikwenze konke izinto yihamba ngosonina
| I used to do everything in my mother's way
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| Nom ubani kimi usika kwel’nonile
| No one from me is cutting from l'nonile
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| Angikhulum efonini umlungisi kukhal epalini
| I'm not talking on the phone, the repairman is on the pole
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| Ma wengane mina ngyafunga kodum' izulu
| My child, I swore to heaven
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| Ifoni ilokhu ikhala koze kuse kuphendul' umlungu
| The phone keeps ringing until someone answers
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| Skrrng, skrrng, ikhala yodwa ngishiye nezulu
| Skrrng, skrrng, I'm crying alone and I'm leaving the sky
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| Sengiqala ukukhathala uthando lwethu lungzwisa nob’hlungu
| I am starting to care that our love is painful
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| Lavi wami mina sengiqala ukukhathala
| My love, I am starting to care
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| Uma ngibheka engikwenze konke kodwa sengiqal ukubabaza
| When I look at what I've done, I'm starting to wonder
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| Ma wengane iyngane seyqala ukukhalaza
| The child is starting to complain
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| Angazi ngiytsheleni uhamb' ebsuku uyatanasa | I don't know what to tell you, you dance at night |
| Yakhal' ifoni sthandwa sami
| The phone rang my dear
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| Iyakhal' ifoni lavi yo
| The phone is ringing
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| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini
| You don't come back to the house anymore
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| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini
| You don't come back to the house anymore
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| Yakhal' ifoni sthandwa sami
| The phone rang my dear
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| Iyakhal' ifoni lavi yo
| The phone is ringing
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| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini
| You don't come back to the house anymore
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| Awusalali kulamalanga endlini
| You no longer sleep in the sun at home
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| Lwagilaya uthando ngingazi
| It was love that I didn't know
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| Ngagcina ngishad' Umachamubhiya
| I ended up marrying Umachumbhiya
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| Lwagilaya uthandoluni kanti
| It was a love affair
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| Ngagcina ngishad' Umachamubhiya
| I ended up marrying Umachumbhiya
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| Ngisizeni bantu bakithi yo
| Help my people
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| Ngisizeni bantu bakithi
| Help my people
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| Shun wenkabi, hayi
| Shun of the ox, no
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| Nami angisazi kodwa nje sengiwumfazi
| I don't know either but I'm a woman now
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| Ngiyapheka ngyacleaner amawashingi hhay nami angisazi
| I cook with washing machine cleaner, but I don't know either
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| Ulala etshwaleni awubuyi ekhaya udakwa ubemanzi
| You sleep drunk and you don't come home drunk and wet
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| Usuyisecurity ungena inightshift akasalali
| He's a security guard, he goes into the night shift and he doesn't sleep
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| Hhayi bo, iynkomo zikababa ngiyaykhalela
| Well, I'm crying for my father's cows
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| Ngikhala ngiyathulisa Ma wengane usuyangdelela. | I'm crying and I'm quiet Ma, the child is disrespecting me. |
| Ewu!
| Oh!
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| Ngithwele kanzima sengiyaphakelwa
| I am burdened and fed
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| Bathi uthando aluboni nhliziyo yami usuyalahleka
| They say love doesn't see my heart and it's getting lost
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| Iso, bathi lixhoshwa libhekile
| The eye, they say, is driven towards the eye
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| Ngazifaka nami ngibona kodwa buhle ngani lingekile
| I also saw myself, but you are so beautiful
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| Yeyi ngoba phela ngangigadakiwe
| Yes, because I was drunk
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| Ngashada inkiyankiya intombi yebandla
| I married a church girl
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| Ngangingaqondile
| I didn't understand
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| Yakhal' ifoni sthandwa sami
| The phone rang my dear
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| Iyakhal' ifoni lavi yo
| The phone is ringing
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| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini | You don't come back to the house anymore |
| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini
| You don't come back to the house anymore
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| Yakhal' ifoni sthandwa sami
| The phone rang my dear
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| Iyakhal' ifoni lavi yo
| The phone is ringing
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| Awusabuyi kulamalanga endlini
| You don't come back to the house anymore
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| Awusalali kulamalanga endlini
| You no longer sleep in the sun at home
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| Lwagilaya uthando ngingazi
| It was love that I didn't know
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| Ngagcina ngishad' Umachamubhiya
| I ended up marrying Umachumbhiya
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| Lwagilaya uthandoluni kanti
| It was a love affair
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| Ngagcina ngishad' Umachamubhiya
| I ended up marrying Umachumbhiya
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| Ngisizeni bantu bakithi yo
| Help my people
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| Ngisizeni bantu bakithi | Help my people |