Sweet Lady
How do I know I’m missing home? The song on repeat on my Ipod is Sweet Lady. Why is this particular song ? Its one of those songs with a catchy beat and lyrics that make me smile in a accent that is too alike to Sevo’s to be ignored. Easy, mindless good music.
This does not mean I’ve forever dropped Snow Patrol for the likes of Dr. Hilderman and Ngoni.
Wapi! I can love them both.
Sweet Lady is for the y.z in a minibus full of cousins parked outside a motel on Kabale Rd on a bathroom break. Everyone pulling out phones and checking for service while the driver fiddles with the radio, the feeling of relief at being back in civilisation mixing with high of exhilaration from braving the roads in the Kigezi Hills to see the Rwenzori enveloping everyone to create this special kind of bonhomie. Gash is moaning at the dust on her ipod and everyone trying to remember what it was like to have feeling in their legs and behinds. And us girls giggling hysterically at every passing cow, fly or man before having hiccupping fits as the boda boda man at Total hits on Peace. And then the radio is on and it’s Radio West, Radio Best. And a beat starts, and we all stop to listen unconsciously moving as one to the beat. And then we join at the chorus, Gash, Miriam, Lisa making hand motions as they go and then laughing Barbara and I drop the adult act and join in. Finally the boys join in with forced banyanks accents and we’re in business. And the driver is speeding off back to Mb’ra, with the rest of the convoy as we just enjoy being silly.
Sigh, c’est la bon vie.
And now, while I go look for the Sweet Lady music video on Youtube, I invite you to learn the lyrics according to me
(intro, with yeas and moans and what I assume is the computer version of a triangle)
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
I think you come from anotha part of this country
Cuz you see girl, I cannot speak your language
Tell me if in your heart, there is a place, somewhere
If you do, keep tell me if I have some hard work
Send me a letter
Tell me that you will be with me lata
Give me an hour
Half an hour, won’t make it longa
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
I’ve tried to look for another girl who is better than you
But my heart and my soul is still depending on you, yea
Lady, you’re the only one that has stolen my mind (my mind echoes)
To love you is all that I am feeling inside
Please a letter,
Can make me sound a little bit better
Call me da waiter,
Need to order for something sweeter
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
(Swahili part. I don’t want to butcher the language. Something about “unajuwa nakutamani, ajakunyumiza moyoni, kamasiyo wewe ninani and sweet lady ni amini”)
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Gimme your numba
I want to know you
Gimme your numba
I really want to know you
Gimme your numba
I want to know you
Gimme your numba
I really want to know you
(Chick)
If I am your lady,
I’ll give you my numba
If I am your lady,
I’ll give you my numba
Sweet Lady! (Echoes)
(Dude talks about he needs the number)
Sweet Lady! (Echoes)
(Dude still talking about number and need)
Sweet Lady (Echoes)
(Dude still talking)
Sweet Lady!
(Still talking)
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
(Scream)
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta (x2)
Numba, numba
Need yo numba
need yo numba
need yo, numba
numba
(dude in his version of Barry White voice) Gimme that Number!
How do I know I’m missing home? The song on repeat on my Ipod is Sweet Lady. Why is this particular song ? Its one of those songs with a catchy beat and lyrics that make me smile in a accent that is too alike to Sevo’s to be ignored. Easy, mindless good music.
This does not mean I’ve forever dropped Snow Patrol for the likes of Dr. Hilderman and Ngoni.
Wapi! I can love them both.
Sweet Lady is for the y.z in a minibus full of cousins parked outside a motel on Kabale Rd on a bathroom break. Everyone pulling out phones and checking for service while the driver fiddles with the radio, the feeling of relief at being back in civilisation mixing with high of exhilaration from braving the roads in the Kigezi Hills to see the Rwenzori enveloping everyone to create this special kind of bonhomie. Gash is moaning at the dust on her ipod and everyone trying to remember what it was like to have feeling in their legs and behinds. And us girls giggling hysterically at every passing cow, fly or man before having hiccupping fits as the boda boda man at Total hits on Peace. And then the radio is on and it’s Radio West, Radio Best. And a beat starts, and we all stop to listen unconsciously moving as one to the beat. And then we join at the chorus, Gash, Miriam, Lisa making hand motions as they go and then laughing Barbara and I drop the adult act and join in. Finally the boys join in with forced banyanks accents and we’re in business. And the driver is speeding off back to Mb’ra, with the rest of the convoy as we just enjoy being silly.
Sigh, c’est la bon vie.
And now, while I go look for the Sweet Lady music video on Youtube, I invite you to learn the lyrics according to me
(intro, with yeas and moans and what I assume is the computer version of a triangle)
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
I think you come from anotha part of this country
Cuz you see girl, I cannot speak your language
Tell me if in your heart, there is a place, somewhere
If you do, keep tell me if I have some hard work
Send me a letter
Tell me that you will be with me lata
Give me an hour
Half an hour, won’t make it longa
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
I’ve tried to look for another girl who is better than you
But my heart and my soul is still depending on you, yea
Lady, you’re the only one that has stolen my mind (my mind echoes)
To love you is all that I am feeling inside
Please a letter,
Can make me sound a little bit better
Call me da waiter,
Need to order for something sweeter
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
(Swahili part. I don’t want to butcher the language. Something about “unajuwa nakutamani, ajakunyumiza moyoni, kamasiyo wewe ninani and sweet lady ni amini”)
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Gimme your numba
I want to know you
Gimme your numba
I really want to know you
Gimme your numba
I want to know you
Gimme your numba
I really want to know you
(Chick)
If I am your lady,
I’ll give you my numba
If I am your lady,
I’ll give you my numba
Sweet Lady! (Echoes)
(Dude talks about he needs the number)
Sweet Lady! (Echoes)
(Dude still talking about number and need)
Sweet Lady (Echoes)
(Dude still talking)
Sweet Lady!
(Still talking)
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
(Scream)
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta
Sweet Lady, Can I please take yo numba
Maybe lata, I would like to know you beta (x2)
Numba, numba
Need yo numba
need yo numba
need yo, numba
numba
(dude in his version of Barry White voice) Gimme that Number!
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