sharing

[Jonathan Lighter]

Bet you can do some okey-dokey hoky-poky folkie karaoke.

I'll shut up now.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > Zulu pidgin for "I'm a little teapot...."
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> Dammit, you got me a-searchin'! Mudcat Cafe, of course. This is the song I
> learned from Marais & Miranda recordings.
>
> http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=2769#1949082
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> *Subject:* Lyr Add: ZULU WARRIOR (from Marais and Miranda)
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> Gee, this whole long thread and no Marais & Miranda lyrics.
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> *THE ZULU WARRIOR*
> Marais and Miranda
>
> March tempo
> I-kama zimba zimba zayo
> I-kama zimba zimba zee,
> I-kama zimba zimba zayo,
> I-kama zimba, zimba,
> See him there, the Zulu warrior,
> See him there, the Zulu chief, chief, chief
> See him there, the Zulu warrior,
> See him there, the Zulu chief, chief, chief, chief
> I-kama zimba, I-kama zimba
> Zikama zimba layo zee,...
> Wah! chief, chief, chief, chief!
> Wah!
>
> Optional second voice:
> I-kamazimba zimba zayo
> I-kama zimba zimba zee
> I-kama zimba zimba zayo
> I-kama zimba zimba zee,
> and etc.
> With score. Marais and Miranda, Folk Song Jamboree, pp. 62-64, Ballantine
> Books pb.
>
> Note- "AFRIKAANS ORIGIN. During the so-called Kafir War, the British
> soldiers sang "Hold him down the Swazi warrior." I substituted Zulu as
> being
> a more familiar name, and brighter "nonsense" words than I used to hear as
> a
> child. This is NOT a native chant, but rather an imitation of the type of
> chanting heard by the settlers. I would call it a pickniekliedjie, a picnic
> song. During World War II, American GI's sang it in conjunction with South
> African troops in North Africa." Marais.
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> Bert, way up above, seems to have some of the older words Marais is talking
> about.
>
> Words and music by Josef Marais, copyright 1946 and 1952 by Dartmouth
> Music,
> Inc.
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