Luyện nghe bài hát Ubaba Akalele

Ubaba (my father is not at peace)

Ngahlangana nomfo' izolo
(I met up with yesterday)
"we-jonathan, angiphathekile kahle mina
(he said, "jonathan, I am in a bad way)
Ngiphupha ubaba ongasekho ekhomba yakhe
(I of my late father pointing at his ox)
Ngikhumbula engitshela "wemfana wami
(and I him telling me -- "my boy
Uma ngihamba kulomhlaba wami
(on the day I pass away and leave earth)
Musa ukungifihla (x3)
(do not me in a coffin)
wami
(my boy)
Awungebesa ngesikhumba senkomo emhlophe, wemfana
(you should me wrapped in the skin of a white ox, my boy)
Awungihambisa 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 ubaba
(father is not at at home)
Akafuni ibokisi, inkomo
(he not want a coffin, he wants an ox)
Akalele ekhaya
(father is not at home)
Washo mfokasibiya wathi "jonathan lana
(sibiya continued saying, "jonathan, here.)
Ngokushona kababa isimanga
(on the day my father died a most unfortunate happened)
Abantu babethi bayamdumisa
(our family thought they would hima great sendoff)
Bamfihla ngebokisi
(and they him in a coffin, knowing he did not want this)
Saxabana thina sodwa (x2)
(we fought 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 the day we buried my father)
ngelelolanga
(it was difficult day)

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