© Farouk Asvat
The township guitar keeps strumming
Strumming strummingThe migrant worker keeps thinking thinking
He keeps talk-talking
He keeps tell-telling me
About that white woman
He keeps say-saying
He's just wait-waiting
For the rev-revolution
©
farouk asvat
*
original composed: 1985
[Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].
# english
translation by farouk asvat: 2007 [South Africa under new apartheid].
[] Acknowledgements:
Township Guitar
was previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames (donker,
p14, 1987); *
University Students' Bursary Committee (University of
Witwatersrand, p13, 1982); * Gitaar In De Township: Dutch translation by Irene Sheltes (1989);
A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p15, 2007); #
www.faroukasvat-lingo.blogspot.com (24.07.2012); * #
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (03.02.2015); * #
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014); #
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p22, 2014). #
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[] please check out my blogs @:
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weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com
books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
[] also link up on:
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[] WIETIE WHAT-WHAT:
TOWNSHIP GUITAR
© Farouk Asvat
The township guitar keeps strumming
Strumming strummingThe migrant worker keeps thinking thinking
He keeps talk-talking
He keeps tell-telling me
About that mlungu mfaz
He keeps say-saying
He's just wait-waiting
For the rev-revolution
Bra Frooks is ...
[] nes 'n skollie[] 'n egte skollie
[] 'n tsotsi
[] a real scamp
[] streetwise
[] the jokerman
Bra Frooks ...
[] praat soos 'n skollie[] wietie soos 'n joster
[] wietie what-what
[] tunes like a durbanite
[] speaks like an englishman
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[] GITAAR IN DE TOWNSHIP
Dutch
translation by © Irene Sheltes
De gitaar in de township blijft pingelen
Pingelen pingelenDe trekarbeider blijft denken denken
Blijft pra-praten
Blijft mij ver-vertellen
Over die mlungu mfaz
Blijft zeg-zeggen
Dat hij alleen maar wa-wacht
Op de rev-revolutie
Dutch
translation by kind permission of © Irene Sheltes
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the anthology The Time Of Our Lives by Farouk Asvat is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
the anthology Bra Frooks … by Farouk
Asvat is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
the anthology The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs by Farouk
Asvat is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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