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Version 1

Key:

• Lead male vocal
• Zulu chorus
• Translations of Zulu

Ingonyama nengw' enamabala     [Here is a lion and a tiger]

Night
And the spirit of life
Calling

   Oh, oh, iyo
Mamela                         [Listen]
   Oh, oh, iyo

And a voice
With the fear of a child
Answers

   Oh, oh, iyo
Oh, mamela                     [Listen]
   Oh, oh, iyo

Ubukhosi bo khokho             [Throne of the ancestors]
We ndodana ye sizwe sonke      [Oh, son of the nation)]

Wait
There's no mountain too great
   Oh, oh, iyo
Hear the words and have faith
   Oh, oh, iyo
Have faith

Hela hey mamela                [Hey, listen]

(Chorus)
He lives in you
He lives in me
He watches over
Everything we see
Into the water
Into the truth
In your reflection
He lives in you

Ingonyama nengw' enamabala     [Here is a lion and a tiger]
(repeat)

(repeat third verse)

(repeat chorus)