Mushanga

I can't forget you my little Mushanga
 I keep a place in my heart for you
 The days of waiting they keep getting longer
 And not a thing I can do
 I was a poet, a magazine writer
 Sent to report on political views
 It was by chance through a lens that I met you
 A Capetown girl with no shoes
 You were runnin' down the road
 I was going your way
 I stopped and turned around to lent you my hand
 You smiled though you were suffering
 I didn't understand, then
 You broke into my heart
 I saw your eyes and then I knew
 You broke into my heart
 Like the wind and rain that followed you
 You broke into my heart
 Had the Lord above forgotten you?
 You broke in from the start
 And all my tears belong to you
 Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh
 
 I sat and watched as she danced by the fires
 Through ancient songs did the tale unfold
 They sang of diamonds that came from their mountains
 The loss of lives mining white man's gold
 I had to leave and go back to Manhattan
 Where all my stories are bought and sold
 I know the city would surely be saddened
 If what I knew could be told
 You were runnin' down the road
 I was going your way
 I stopped and turned around to lent you my hand
 You smiled though you were suffering
 I didn't understand, then
 You broke into my heart
 I saw your eyes and then I knew
 You broke into my heart
 Like the wind and rain that followed you
 You broke into my heart
 Had the Lord above forgotten you?
 You broke in from the start
 And all my tears belong to you
 Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh
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 It's been so long since I last heard your laughter
 So many letters and still no news
 I hope you find all the things that you're after
 You know my heart is with you
 You were runnin' down the road
 I was going your way
 I stopped and turned around to lent you my hand
 You smiled though you were suffering
 I didn't understand, then
 You broke into my heart
 I saw your eyes and then I knew
 You broke into my heart
 Like the wind and rain that followed you
 You broke into my heart
 Had the Lord above forgotten you?
 You broke into my heart
 I saw your eyes and then I knew
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 You broke in from the start
 And all my tears belong to you
 
 Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh
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 Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh,
 Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh.