Luyện nghe bài hát Ubaba Akalele

Ubaba (my father is not at peace)

nomfo' kasibiya izolo
(I met up sibiya yesterday)
"we-jonathan, angiphathekile kahle mina
(he said, "jonathan, I am in a bad way)
Ngiphupha ubaba ekhomba inkomo yakhe
(I of my late father pointing at his ox)
Ngikhumbula engitshela ethi "wemfana
(and I him telling me -- "my boy
Uma kulomhlaba wemfana wami
(on the day I pass away and leave earth)
Musa ngebokisi (x3)
(do not me in a coffin)
wami
(my boy)
Awungebesa ngesikhumba senkomo emhlophe, wami
(you should bury me in the skin of a white ox, my boy)
Awungihambisa ngenkomo
(you should send me on my journey by means of a white ox)
Inkomo, kababa, wo-ye-ye-ye!
(the ox, the ox of my father....)

Akalele ubaba
(father is not at at home)
Akafuni ibokisi, inkomo
(he does not a coffin, he wants an ox)
Akalele ubaba
(father is not at home)
Washo wathi "jonathan lalela lana
(sibiya saying, "jonathan, listen here.)
kababa kwenzeka isimanga
(on the day my father died a most unfortunate happened)
Abantu bomndeni babethi
(our thought they would give hima great sendoff)
Bamfihla ngebokisi
(and they buried him in a coffin, knowing he did not this)
thina sodwa bomndeni (x2)
(we among ourselves, we the members of the family)
ngoba ngathi mina bayasithela ngebadi
(we argued because I said they had done something which would bring
Misfortune)
Benkunzima sifihla ubaba
(it was difficult the day we my father)
Benkunzima
(it was that day)

Ubaba akalele ekhaya, isibaya
(father is not at ease at home, his wanders around the cattle
Enclosure)
Ibokisi lakhe
(it imprisoned by the coffin)
isikhumba senkomo yakhe (x2)
(his spirit still wants to be by his ox)