Redemption Song

Manfred Mann

No Kwazulu, no Kwazulu

No Bophuthatswana, no Lebowa

No Kwazulu, no Kwazulu

No Bophuthatswana, no Lebowa



Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds

Have no fear for atomic energy

For none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look

Some say it's just a part of it

We've got to fulfill the book



So won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom

'Cause all I ever hear

Is redemption song



Soldiers march their freedom

Out into the city streets

And though it seems like a losing battle

There can be no retreat



So won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom

'Cause all I ever hear

Is redemption song



Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds

Have no fear for atomic energy

For none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look

Some say it's just a part of it

We've got to fulfill the book



So won't you help to sing

These songs of freedom

'Cause all I ever hear

Is redemption song