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African Secret Society
By Hugh Masekela

Kale as a young girl
At the tender age of life
Speeding to African secret society
Where the body will clad
A string of beards on around her waist
When she joins African secret society
Taken away from her home
Taken to the country school of Life
Deep into African secret society
She lives everyday learning how just to be like a woman
From the ladies of the great African secret society

To cook, to sweep, to sow,
Also to reap, to heal to bring health
To make love and take love
To make a house whole
To drive away the cold
And how to keep the fire burning
Everyday and each night
Shall need the vital light
Every weather, to wake up for the baby
Sleeping time
She will know when to sing a lullaby

Always ready,
To wake up early in the morning
Determined,
To make it another happy day

When she leaves the country,
She will understand the mystery
A secret of a music will come alive within her dance
When she will be ready
To take a journey into the world
Where she will get married
And raise a family.

When she leaves the country
She will understand the mystery
The secret of a music will come alive within her dance.
When she will be ready
To take a journey to the world
Where she will get married
And raise a family

(Please listen and help correct my rendering of the above lyrics)

Jogirafi
(Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season waiting for the rain)