Another Man

from FolK tOLd Me EP by Folk Told Me

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Iraq, Sudan, Palestine, Afghanistan, Congo, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Mexico, Columbia, Libya, Somalia, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Yemen

Girila Gijima! Girila Gijima!
Girila Gijima! Girila Gijima!
Utholi’ Nkululeko
Girila Gijima! Girila Gijima! Girila Gijima!

Another man gone (Girila Gijima!)
Another man gone (Girila Gijima!)
Another man gone (Girila Gijima! Girila Gijima!)
Another man gone (Utholi’ Nkululeko)
Another man gone (Girila Gijima!)
Another man done gone (Girila Gijima!), another man done gone (Girila Gijima!), Another man done gone

I didn’t know his name (Girila Gijima!)
I didn’t know his name (Girila Gijima!)
I didn’t know his name (Girila Gijima! Girila Gijima!)
Another man gone (Utholi’ Nkululeko)
Another man gone (Girila Gijima!)
Another man done gone (Girila Gijima!), another man done gone (Girila Gijima!), Another man done gone


Niyabasaba na?!
Hai! 4x

Using violence as a means to peace I see as totally ass backwards
Torrential bloodletting release soul of a man until all life is captured
What’s a world of inorganic matter
What’s a world of lifeless matter
Scattered amongst your guns and knives and bombs conflict and lies and anger
Pitter-patter of hearts has ceased to beat
I’m asking you put down your weapons
Tell me what’s a world without weapons
Tell me why we need those weapons
The event of demise will arise if we are not guided by acts of love
Don’t speak with clenched fist cocked guns and ticking bombs

Coward government send them out to fight
In a bloody war that they know ain’t right
Recruit them boys soon as they turn 18
Give em' a gun a buzz cut to pairs of fatigues
It don’t stop there they get the women too
Leave your lives behind for mushroom clouds and boom boom
Rebel boy bandana round his lips
With eyes of fire and on machete tight grip

Translation notes:
IsiZULU CHANT IN THE VERSES
LINE1 “GIRILA GIJIMA…X3…UTHOLI’NKULULEKO – (“Guerilla run/ look out”)

Call and response before rap section
LINE2 “NIYABASABA NA?” – ( “are y’all scared of ‘em?)

Chant during rap verse at the end of each bar
LINE3 “HAI!” – (No!)

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from FolK tOLd Me EP, released December 15, 2011

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Folk Told Me is a band of melodic sankofa martians, spinning stories like hip hop griots doomed to this place called earth, traveling in sound sparring with myopic modes of being…freeing. . .

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