Gimme Hope Jo'anna - Eddy Grant.mp3

[00:14.96]Well Jo'anna she runs a country
[00:18.59]She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
[00:22.37]She makes a few of her people happy, oh
[00:26.24]She don't care about the rest at all
[00:29.89]She's got a system they call apartheid
[00:33.56]It keeps a brother in a subjection
[00:37.30]But maybe pressure will make Jo'anna see
[00:41.08]How everybody could a live as one
[00:45.04]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[00:47.55]Hope, Jo'anna
[00:49.16]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[00:50.71]'Fore the morning come
[00:52.76]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[00:55.18]Hope, Jo'anna
[00:56.35]Hope before the morning come
[01:00.01]I hear she makes all the golden money
[01:03.46]To buy new weapons, any shape of guns
[01:07.31]While every mother in black Soweto fears
[01:10.99]The killing of another son
[01:14.82]Sneakin' across all the neighbors' borders
[01:18.43]Now and again having little fun
[01:22.19]She doesn't care if the fun and games she play
[01:26.16]Is dang'rous to ev'ryone
[01:29.91]Oh, gimme hope, Jo'anna
[01:32.52]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[01:33.74]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[01:35.52]'Fore the morning come
[01:37.45]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[01:40.03]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[01:41.68]Hope before the morning come
[01:59.53]She's got supporters in high up places
[02:03.24]Who turn their heads to the city sun
[02:07.00]Jo'anna give them the fancy money
[02:10.32]Oh, to tempt anyone who'd come
[02:14.53]She even knows how to swing opinion
[02:18.34]In every magazine and the journals
[02:22.06]For every bad move that this Jo'anna make
[02:25.99]They got a good explanation
[02:29.65]Oh, gimme hope, Jo'anna
[02:32.11]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[02:33.47]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[02:35.29]'Fore the morning come
[02:37.30]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[02:39.77]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[02:40.96]Hope before the morning come
[02:44.74]Even the preacher who works for Jesus
[02:48.09]The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
[02:51.84]Together say that the freedom fighters
[02:55.44]Will overcome the very strong
[02:59.38]I wanna know if you're blind Jo'anna
[03:03.11]If you wanna hear the sound of drum
[03:06.89]Can't you see that the tide is turning
[03:10.15]Oh don't make me wait till the morning come
[03:14.43]Oh, gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:17.05]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:18.74]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:20.30]'Fore the morning come
[03:21.94]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:23.89]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:25.83]Hope before the morning come
[03:29.94]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:31.57]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:33.40]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:35.06]'Fore the morning come
[03:37.04]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:39.38]Gimme hope, Jo'anna
[03:40.81]Hope before the morning come