Kalanga Lullaby
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Kalanga Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by the Kalanga people, Botswana’s second-largest ethnic group, living near the ruins of Great Zimbabwe in the country’s northeast. Great Zimbabwe, whose stone ruins lie not far from Kalanga territory, was once the center of a powerful trading kingdom between the 11th and 15th centuries, built entirely without mortar from expertly stacked granite blocks, and Kalanga communities today, straddling the modern Botswana-Zimbabwe border, carry cultural and historical ties reaching back to that same era. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Kalanga Lullaby” Means
The Kalanga are Botswana’s second-largest ethnic group, living in the northeast near ancient stone-walled ruins, with a culture rooted in cattle herding. This original lullaby draws on those pastoral and highland images of Kalanga life.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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