Album: Christy Moore (Atlantic)

Biko Drum

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 Capetown 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