biko drum

Lyrics

and they went home on an easter road, on a silent night tryin' not to show, who goes where and who goes when, thinkin' some day soon they'll get it back again, from the ghetto in cape town to dig the gold, little boy blue can't be sold, under tin roof and a plastic wall, thinkin' someday soon we're goin' to leave it all, and the renegades sing all the renegade songs, and the ones who know hope they're doin' wrong, the blacks and the coloreds play the biko drum, listen to the biko drum, transvaal kids on a transvaal day, little by little the show the way, to a city of dreams and solid ground, thinkin' someday soon we're gonna come around, steve he's livin' in a prison cell, all the friends that know hope he's doin' well, down here they listen to the biko drum, down here they listen to the songs he sung, and the renegades sing all the renegade songs, and the ones who know hope they're doin' wrong, the blacks and the coloreds play the biko drum, listen to the biko drum, nelson listen to the people sing, nelson mandela the people's king, twenty-five years in a white man's jail, twenty-five years we couldn't make him say, and the renegades sing all the renegade songs, and the ones who know hope they're doin' wrong, the blacks and the coloreds play the biko drum, listen to the biko drum