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Chechelele - new version Two |
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New poem at the bottom Oldest to the right (I heard a rumour about what all of their songs were about) Chechele Chechelelah Hear some singing From this choir Call and response Let me hear yah Chechele Chechelelah Chechele Chechelelah Let me tell yer bout the songs As they go along Song no. 1 That’ll start it Two women fighting over fish In the market Song no. 2 that’ll make you sad Two women fighting over fish And they’re getting mad Songs no. 3 and 4 And 5 as well Two women with a fish Giving hell Songs 6 and 7 are a different cut Casting aspersions Over Halibut Chechele Chechelelah Bamballa Wassamaila From around the world Sung in harmony All of the globe Is in harmony Working in the field Thrashing – Threshing Chechele Chechelelah Children playing Love and freedom Miracles, chanting And a drinking song Dancing, working Medieval Lumberjacking And a farewell Chechele Chechelelah Here we feel Deeper rhythm Chechele Chechelelah All the world Is in rhythm Raise your voices And be with them Chechele Chechelelah Chechelele This choir will take you absolutely everywhere Bouncing brightly ’bout in flowered suits Smiling wildly at us as they give it to us Moving vastly cross the artesian hinterland Harmonizing global universality People everywhere are equal really And if you have a little more You give a
little back And laugh out loud at all the love you have Nothing in this western world is quite as bad Except - bunking in a windy Whitby barnyard Stinking kippers in a caravan Camping in between the trains and church halls Dossing in the back of vans - there’s thirty of ‘em Yes these guys they get about round everywhere Singing of those women fighting ‘bout fish Cheche Cheche Cheche Cheche Leh Leh |
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The original version is below: Chechele Chechelelah Hear some singing From this choir Call and response Let me hear yah Chechele Chechelelah Chechele Chechelelah Let me tell yer bout the songs As they go along Song no. 1 That’ll start it Two women fighting over fish In the market Song no. 2 that’ll make you sad Two women fighting over fish And they’re getting mad Songs no. 3 and 4 And 5 as well Two women with a fish Giving hell Songs 6 and 7 are a different cut Casting aspersions Over Halibut Chechele Chechelelah Bamballa Wassamaila From around the world Sung in harmony All of the globe Is in harmony Working in the field Thrashing – Threshing Chechele Chechelelah Bar bar numsala N mandala Chechelosa People’s choir Balkan boppy And from Africa Giri giri Poy hay nin A Cappella And percussion Working songs And the celtway Chechele Chechelelah Hear you clap To this rhythm Chechele Chechelelah All the world Is in rhythm Raise your voices And be with em Chechele Chechelelah Chechelele |