If I'm dreaming don't wake me up if it's a lie don't tell me the truth
Chorus
'Cause what the truth will do, it's gonna hurt my heart
Being in the darkness for so long now
Mr. President, did I hear you well Last night on TV
You said:
The group areas act is going Apartheid is going (x2)
Ina me eye me sight the future so bright
I mean I my eyes
I see the future so bright
When the blackie manna coming together
With the whitey manna (x2)
Whitey manna coming together with the blackman
Chorus:
If I'm dreaming
Gazing at my crystal ball I see the future so bright
The fighting's gonna stop now
We'll forgive and forget I know Mr. President
You can't please everyone
But everybody liked it
When you said
Group areas act is going
Apartheid is going (x2)
Chorus:
If I'm dreaming (till fade)I'mm travelleing light, I'm going to Baba Nango
I'm leaving tonight, I'm going to Baba Nango
I'm leaving my crying behind, I'm going to Baba Nango
And when my people see me they will say
"Halala! It's the child of the hungry earth"
Chorus:
Wo! Halala halalo halalal!
Halala Halalo halalal ingane yakithi [halala child of ours]
I'm going back to find my eyes blinded by the night
I know a star that shines above Baba Nango
Im going back to find a lost child calling
And when my people see me they will say
"Halala! It's the child of the dark morning"
Chorus
Woodsmoke clinging to the evnings in Baba Nango
Warm bodies curled in a fireplace in Baba Nango
My name is on the lips of an old woman mourning
Chorus
Wo buye ingane yakhiti (Oh return child of ours)
Kwelezontaba ezakithi (return to the mountains of our home)