Luyện nghe bài hát Ubaba Akalele

Ubaba (my father is not at peace)

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

Akalele ekhaya
(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)
mfokasibiya wathi "jonathan lalela lana
(sibiya saying, "jonathan, listen here.)
Ngokushona kwenzeka isimanga
(on the day my father died a unfortunate thing happened)
Abantu bomndeni babethi
(our thought they would give hima great sendoff)
Bamfihla engalifuni
(and they him in a coffin, knowing he did not want this)
Saxabana thina bomndeni (x2)
(we fought among ourselves, we the of the family)
ngoba ngathi mina bayasithela ngebadi
(we argued because I said they had done something which would great
Misfortune)
Benkunzima ngelelolanga ubaba
(it was difficult the day we my father)
ngelelolanga
(it was that day)

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