Hwahwa - Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited 1989

After Jonah Sithole had left The Blacks Unlimited again in 1988, Thomas just gave up on trying to find another guitar player who could play mbira guitar as well as Jonah and he just put the mbira in there.

Another version of this song, still with Jonah on guitar, can be downloaded at:
http://wrldsrv.blogspot.com/2008/10/chimurenga.html

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Zimbabwe
• Mapfumo
• JonahSithole
• Mbira

[eroswas1st]

i do wonder what really made him hit his wife...i know it wasnt the beer. great song

[AboubacarSiddikh]

@eroswas1st It was his mother in law (who had probably made him take to the bottle in the first place)!!

[eroswas1st]

@AboubacarSiddikh lol

[eroswas1st]

i do wonder what really made him hit his wife...i know it wasnt the beer.

[tonderai263]

shumba yezimbabwe

[4TheDoctor2]

@MegaJack213 Thanks but I know that as he says all that at the start but I was wondering what the lyrics translated to as i'm trying to figure out a particular shona artist i listened to in zimbabwe. And he had a song on this album relating to alcohol and i know there was a part translated to something like 'you can't hide your red eyes' or something similar. But thanks for the reply anyway.

[MegaJack213]

@4TheDoctor2 It 's a man saying he no longer drinks beer because he sees the errors of his ways. He got drunk one day and was fighting with his wife and his mother inlaw told him off so he beat her up aswell, that's the gist of the song.So don't drink beer is the moral of the song.

[4TheDoctor2]

Can anyone please tell me what the lyrics of this are in english, what do they mean?

[blanyedza]

MBIRA IS BETTER THAN THE EUROPEAN GUITAR

[steelchill]

Looking back, i used to hate the apparently too mature music by this guy way back when still a kid, now i can't get enough....