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"Jamusi" lyrics
JAMUSI
As dawn is breaking above the Baobab trees,
night time it comes tumbling from grace.
A figure wanders to the water’s edge,
appears like a Phoenix from the ashes
with an ebony face.
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi, yeah, that’s what my daddy called you.
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi came to us as Matumbi.
Jamusi, yeah, that’s what my daddy called you.
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi yeah. Sit beneath the hand of Kamuzu.
Land Of The Lake that bore the native son
has been casting incantations since the dawn of time begun.
Woven in the hist’ry, in the hist’ry. Woven in the history,
in the hist’ry. Woven in the history:
He and the land are one!
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi, yeah, that’s what my daddy called you.
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi came to us as Matumbi.
Jamusi, yeah, that’s what my daddy called you.
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi yeah. Sit beneath the hand of Kamuzu.
Then destiny it dragged us back beyond Nyasaland.
In my heart and soul, still reach out for your hand.
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi, yeah, that’s what my daddy called you.
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi came to us as Matumbi.
Jamusi, yeah, that’s what my daddy called you.
Jamusi, yeah, Jamusi yeah. Sit beneath the hand of Kamuzu.
© Lee Mitchell 1989/Copywrite House 2011
About my song
Written for a friend who spent her childhood in Nyasa Land…Land Of The Lakes. Jamusi was her friend. James.
A moving beat with an African Feel – Intended.