Gimme hope Jo'anna

Titre d'Eddy GRANT

sorti en 1988

Auteur-Compositeur : Eddy GRANT

GIMME HOPE JO'ANNA

Well Jo'anna she runs a country she runs in Durban and the Transvaal

She makes a few of her people happy, oh she don't care about the rest at all

She's got a system they call apartheid it keeps a brother in a subjection

But maybe pressure will make Jo'anna see how everybody could a live as one

Gimme hope, Jo'anna hope, Jo'anna gimme hope, Jo'anna 'fore the morning come

Gimme hope, Jo'anna hope, Jo'anna  hope before the morning come

I hear she make all the golden money to buy new weapons, any shape of guns

While every mother in black Soweto fears the killing of another son

Sneakin' across all the neighbour's borders now and again having little fun

She doesn't care if the fun and games she play is dang'rous to ev'ryone

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She's got supporters in high up places who turn their heads to the city sun

Jo'anna give them the fancy money oh to tempt anyone who'd come

She even knows how to swing opinion in every magazine and the journals

For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes they got a good explanation

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Even the preacher who works for Jesus the Archbishop who's a peaceful man

Together say that the freedom fighters will overcome the very strong

I wanna know if you're blind Jo'anna if you wanna hear the sound of drums

Can't you see that the tide is turning oh don't make me wait till the morning come

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