Songtexte Angels of Vegkop - John Edmond

We came with our wagons' cross a grassland sea
Rolling like a long flotilla
From Tarkaland with thirty families
We crossed the big wide river
With Andries Hendrik Potgieter
And the Reverend Sarel Cilliers
That led us with his rifle and the Bible
To lessen all our fears.
There were angels in the laager
That brewed the coffee pot
Till we settled down with our livestock
At a place called Doornkop.
Now they call it Vegkop
And there's a reason why
"Twas there we fought a battle
With Angels buy our side.
Though we came in peace there was a chief
Called Kalipi from the Matabele Tribe
Who massacred folks in the laagers
On the Vaal's green riverside.
He scorned the flag of truce we flew
With a Mzilikazi' yell,
Reverend Cilliers then said a prayer
To deliver us from hell.
There were Angels in the Laager
That fired the crucible pot
And poured the lead into the moulds
To make us all a bag of shot
Stood by with powder horn and rod
To load the muskets for each man.
The angels of Vegkop pledged to fight
The enemy hand to hand.
We closed the Laager up with thorn;
Covered the wagons with hides,
To protect the old and young from the rain
Of a thousand assegais.
Two of our number perished and
Fourteen were wounded by spears
Four hundred and seventy enemy died
Before the Impi disappeared.
There were angels in the laager with the loyal Baralong
Who tended to the wounded and the horses
To keep them safe and calm.
The enemy stole ten thousand stock
Our lifeblood taken away.
But the Angels of Vegkop
Inspired us that dark day.
They were Angels, Angels, Angels watching over us.
To the far off Bleskop Mission
Of the reverend Archbell;
A rider was sent to ask for help
From the imminent coming hell.
Sustenance came just in time
And we realized there and then;
The Angels of Vegkop
Were the women and children.
There were Angels in the Laager
That stood by the thirty four,
Way back in 1836
Against Silkaats' ravishing horde.
Nic Potgieter and Pieter Botha
Were the fallen men
And today the Angels of Vegkop
Are watching over them, are watching over them.
The Angels of Vegkop were the women and children.