Lyrics

I was the only one who witnessed my homecoming So I asked myself: Brother Joseph, how've you been? Then I met an old man who knew me as a boy I said, Father, where're the people, where're the homesteads gone? And he said, Son, I'll be old untill I die now And then I will join our people in the sky I am not the one to ask the reasons why Your brothers and your sisters have been scattered in the wind Chorus And he said old eyes (mehlomadala) You've got old eyes, boy You've seen much too much for one so young He said old eyes (mehlomadala) You've got old eyes, boy Child, from whence have you come? When I left that mountain land so gold and green I was a sturdy sixteen years Work was hard and the wage was low And the seasons passed me by one by one And I dreamed, Maria, you would wait for my return We'd build a home upon the rock beneath the smiling sun But as the old man used to say when I was young People come and people go, but the mountain still remains Zulu chorus Repeat English chorus Repeat Zulu chorus