ZAMBIAN MUSIC LYRICS

Song Title: Bana Bandi (My Children)

Artist: Ackim Simukonda

 

 

LYRICS:

That’s the way it is

That’s the way it is

(That’s the way it is)

Hmmm all the time

 

Bana bandi eh, sunganeni (My children, look after each other)

Bana bandi, eh, temwaneni (My children, love each other)

Bana bandi, eh, ishibaneni (My children, get to know each other)

Bana bandi, eh, icindikeni (My children, respect yourselves)

 

[Ifilimba fya tuta] – (Guitars!)

 

Mu mikalile yandi na mukupa kwandi (In my life style and in my marriage)

Nalisangilemo ubwafya no bulanda (I came across difficulties and sadness)

Bana bandi, eh, mwila nseka (My children, do not deride me)

Bana bandi, eh, mwila lila (My children, do not cry)

Ukufyalwa mwa fyalwa (The way you were conceived)

Cila muntu na nyina umo (Each one from their own mother)

Fwe bamo incito shali tuletelela (Some of us have got misfortune from our careers)

Twalisulwa, eh, inshila shonse (We are looked down on, in all ways)

Banyinenwe nabo pakutusumina (And your mothers who said “yes” to us)

Balipuminwe noku tukwa (Were beaten and insulted)

Eico ndemilomba bana bandi (That is why I am begging you, my children)

Icalo cesu, we, ala na cafya (Our world is a difficult place)

 

[Ifilimba fya tuta] – (Guitars!)

 

Bana bandi, eh, sunganeni ( My children, look after each other)

Bana bandi, eh, temwaneni (My children, love each other)

Bana bandi, eh, ishibaneni (My children, get to know each other)

Bana bandi, eh, icindikeni (My children, respect yourselves)

 

[Ifilimba fya tuta] – (Guitars!)

 

Ukufyalwa kwenu, eh, bana bandi (Your conception, my children)

Kwali mumaka yakwa Lesa (Was in God’s power)

Eico ndemilomba bana bandi (That is why I am begging you, my children)

Cindikeni, eh, a bafyashi benu (Respect your parents)

 

[Ifilimba fya tuta] – (Guitars!)

 

Bana bandi, eh, sunganeni (My children, look after each other)

Bana bandi, eh, temwaneni (My children, love each other)

Bana bandi, eh, ishibaneni (My children, know each other)

Bana bandi, eh, icindikeni (My children, respect yourselves)

 

Mwiumfwila, eh, ba cilandelande (Do not listen to gossipers)

 

That’s the way it is all the time

Bana bandi, icitemwiko pali banyinenwe naine chali chacishinka (My children, the love

         between your mum and me was true)

Nomba insoselo shabantunse, isha bantu bambi, eshatupusenye (But the talk of

        others, of various people, is what led to our estrangement)

Bana bandi ukufyalwa kwenu muno calo ( My children, your birth into this world)

Kwali suminishiwe na Lesa Kabumba wesu (Was allowed by God the Creator)

Temuntunse iyoo (Not by a human being, no)

Eico ndemilomba bana bandi nati cindikeni banyinenwe (That is why I am begging you

       to respect your mother)

Naine wine ne wishinwe ( including me, your father)

Ilyo tucili pano pa calo, (While we are on this earth)

Nangula fye ilyo twafuma pano pa calo (And even when we depart from this earth)

Ili ‘funde bana bandi lyenu (This teaching, my children, is for you)

Nabana mukaleta muno calo, epela (And for the children you will bring into this world,

that is all)

 

That is the way it is

 

Bana bandi eh, sunganeni (My children, look after each other)

Bana bandi, eh, temwaneni (My children, love each other)

Bana bandi, eh, ishibaneni (My children, get to know each other)

Bana bandi, eh, icindikeni (My children, respect yourselves)

Mwiumfwila, eh, ba cilandelande (Do not listen to gossipers)

 

That is the way it is, all the time

That is the way it is

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