Author: Wally Page
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And they went home on an Easter road
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On a silent night trying not to show
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Who goes where and who goes when
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Thinking some day soon they’ll get it back again
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From the ghetto in Capetown to dig the gold
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Little boy blue he can’t be sold
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Under tin roof and a plastic wall
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Thinking some day soon we’re gonna come around.
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And the renegades sing all the renegades songs
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And the ones who know hope they’re doing wrong
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The blacks and the coloureds play the Biko Drum
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The blacks and the coloureds play the Biko drum
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Hey hey listen to the Biko Drum (we’re gonna sing, sing it now)
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Hey hey listen to the Biko Drum
Transvaal kids on a Transvaal day
Little by little they show the way
To a city of dream on solid ground
Thinking someday soon they’re gonna come around
Steve he’s living in a prison cell
All his friends that know hope he’s doing well
Down here they listen to the Biko Drum
Down here they listen to the songs he sung
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Nelson, listen to the people sing
Nelson Mandela the people’s king
27 years in a white man’s jail
27 years they couldn’t make him say
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More Info
My self and Wally were walking past The 5 Lamps when we bumped into Bishop Tutu.”The very lads “sez the Bish….He was looking for a good song about Steven Biko who accidentally killed himself whilst falling down the stairs of the Police Station while being held by SA police. Wally had her down in no time.