Name: Koi
Duration: P00H04M18S
Description: Koi (pron. Koh-EE) is Setswana for skipping rope/jump rope.

Koi

from Bongo Country EP by Chasing Jaykb

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Koi (pron. Koh-EE) is Setswana for skipping rope/jump rope.

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Koi, ke mathibatsela
Koi, ke mathibatsela

Echoes ring back
In caves depressed in my mind
Voices of my brothers
Working hard in the fields

Unknown, Unwanted
They came cloaked by the night
Our hope they told us
They had hearts fuelled by love

The songs we sang in the streets with abandon
Without a clue of what was happening
The games we played in the streets with abandon
Housed by our naivety

Koi, ke mathibatsela
Koi, ke mathibatsela

Big smoke came sweeping
As the messenger called
No way, nowhere to run
No fortresses built

Iyo, Iyo our cries
Engulfed in waves ten feet high
The skies a shade
We’d never seen till that day.

The songs we sang in the streets with abandon
Without a clue of what was happening
The games we played in the streets with abandon
Housed by our naivety

Koi, ke mathibatsela
Koi, ke mathibatsela

Unknown, Unwanted
They came cloaked by the night
Iyo, Iyo our cries
Engulfed in waves ten feet high

The songs we sang in the streets with abandon
Without a clue of what was happening
The games we played in the streets with abandon
Housed by our naivety

Koi, ke mathibatsela
Koi, ke mathibatsela

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from Bongo Country EP, track released January 13, 2015
Writer, Composer, Vocalist: Kat Kai Kol-Kes
Producer: Maleho Makgothi
Recorded at Pumi Soundz

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