Johnny Clegg - Tough Enough

This unplugged version was broadcast in a feature by german arte-TV, about 1994. The song is from the Savuka-album "Heat, Dust & Dreams".
The lyrics:
LOMHLABA UNZIMA, LOMHLABA
[this world is a harsh place, this world]
Picture the end of a cycle
here's the fire from heaven
There's a tired planet closing down
no more news at eleven
somewhere the last of a species has died
somewhere a child is born
when I hold you, I tremble inside
can we ride out the storm?
Are you tough enough - can you take the pain?
Are you tough enough - to walk in the burning rain
Are you tough enough - can you take the weight?
Are you tough enough - baby just say!

Into the heart of the human dream
into a strange new world
remember me under the Tree of Man
where I first heard your words
I'm gonna make it through, I can feel it...

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Music

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• Johnny
• Clegg
• Savuka
• White
• Zulu
• Ecology
• arte

[TheSandsie13]

great song. but only johnny would play to his chickens. do they lay better for you if you sing at them?

[Rauskucker]

@TheSandsie13 Do you think they lay at all? Thanks for your comment. :-)

[Spih64]

When hes come to france?

[cathead772]

Wonderful.....

[vancouvercriminallaw]

Great song, no matter the orchestration. And the video is in some respects more interesting than the original.

Thanks for posting this.

[prosepp]

gefällt mir, auch wenn ich im ersten Moment völlig durcheinander gekommen bin.

Haindling hat dieselbe Akkordeonmelodie vor vielen vielen Jahren in einem seiner Ohrwürmer benutzt, deshalb musste ich erst völlig umschalten, weil bei mir nach den ersten Tönen ein ganz anderer Song hochkam.

Herzlichen Gruss

Eduard