JAMAICAN KONGO

 

O mother Margret bawl: Kongo
Yari, yari, Kongo
Nkita, nkita, Kongo
Yari, yari, Kongo
Oku twawutshilwa kwawu kwenda - Kongo
Yari, yari, Kongo
O yenda mona, mona eKongo
Yari, yari, eKongo
Yeh, Mother Margret bawl: Kongo
Yari, yari, Kongo...

Yeh, Mother Margret bawl: Kongo
Alas, alas, Kongo
Spirits, spirits of Kongo
Alas, alas, Kongo
Oh where we were born, there let us go - Kongo
Alas, alas, Kongo
Oh, go to see, go to see Kongo
Alas, alas, Kongo
Yeh, Mother Margret bawl: Kongo
Alas, alas, Kongo...

Taken from:
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF INDENTURED AFRICAN IMMIGRATION INTO JAMAICA 1841-1865, by Monica Schuler, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1980