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11/02/2008 by Nikita

On THIS LINK and on THIS link you can read more about the British/Boer-War. You can also view some War-Art… and HERE you can also read  about the War.
On THIS LINK you can read more about General De La Rey….

Words of the second song in English….

I’ve asked Jasper to translate the song in English…so, enjoy his translation!

On the hill tops at night
In shadows and darkness we wait
The night chills te mud and the guts for my bed
While the rain and old rags sleeps with me

With the life that they burned
from my farm to take pride
in capturing me
They opened my soul to the flames
That fans the dark furnace in me

De La Rey, De La Rey
We need you to show us the way
De La Rey, De La Rey
General De La Rey
United we’ll fight till we fall
General De La Rey

You could hear the Queens force
mocking an end
to this brotherhood of men
Cornered by cliffs they did think
For us it’s the end

How they failed to conceive
The heart of a man
That they came to call Boer
Beware the pale horse from the west
The Lion that comes for his kin

De La Rey, De La Rey
We need you to show us the way
De La Rey, De La Rey
General De La Rey
United we’ll fight till we fall
General De La Rey

In the dark camps of death
My wife and my child pays the bill
For in the footprint of Khaki’s
This nation will rise once again

De La Rey, De La Rey
We need you to show us the way
De La Rey, De La Rey
General De La Rey
United we’ll fight till we fall
General De La Rey
(c) Jandre Neethling

Discrimination!! this song is forbidden to be sung on Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria!! oh my DEAR!!! can you believe it!! South Africa, wake up!!! It’s a SONG about HISTORY!!!!!!!

http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2070988,00.html
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Posted in Afrikaans, music videos, South Africa | Tagged Afrikaans, Boer/British War, Bok van Blerk, De la Rey, discrimination, General De La Rey, History, music, music videos, Ons vir jou Suid-Afrika, South African-British-War, South Afrika | 4 Comments

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  1. on 12/02/2008 at 09:59 Jasper

    Dis darm nie heeltemal so sterk in engels nie… 😦


  2. on 12/02/2008 at 18:02 Nikita

    Hi Jasper… ek stem saam met jou! Ek het nie die vertaling gedoen nie, maar dit kon beter gedoen word…waarom probeer jy nie vir ons nie… 😉


  3. on 14/02/2008 at 08:44 Jasper

    Ek het geluister en geswig onder die versoek… 😉

    Die vertaling is op my blog


  4. on 14/02/2008 at 20:47 Nikita

    Dankie, sal bietjie loer! :)…. yikes…soos die Australiers se! dis sommer baie mooi, Jasper!!



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