Luyện nghe bài hát Ubaba Akalele

Ubaba (my father is not at peace)

Ngahlangana nomfo' izolo
(I met up sibiya yesterday)
Wathi "we-jonathan, angiphathekile kahle
(he said, "jonathan, I am in a bad way)
Ngiphupha ongasekho ekhomba inkomo yakhe
(I of my late father pointing at his ox)
Ngikhumbula engitshela "wemfana wami
(and I him telling me -- "my boy
Uma kulomhlaba wemfana wami
(on the day I pass and leave this earth)
Musa ukungifihla (x3)
(do not me in a coffin)
Wemfana
(my boy)
Awungebesa ngesikhumba emhlophe, wemfana wami
(you should me wrapped in the skin of a white ox, my boy)
ngenkomo emhlophe
(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)
ibokisi, ufuna inkomo
(he does not want a coffin, he an ox)
Akalele ubaba
(father is not at home)
Washo mfokasibiya wathi "jonathan lana
(sibiya saying, "jonathan, listen here.)
kababa kwenzeka isimanga
(on the day my father died a most unfortunate happened)
Abantu bomndeni bayamdumisa
(our family thought would give hima great sendoff)
Bamfihla ngebokisi
(and buried him in a coffin, knowing he did not want this)
Saxabana sodwa bomndeni (x2)
(we fought ourselves, we the members of the family)
ngoba ngathi mina bayasithela ngebadi
(we argued I said they had done something which would bring great
Misfortune)
Benkunzima sifihla ubaba
(it was the day we buried my father)
Benkunzima
(it was that day)

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