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Subject(s)

• Sotho (African people)—Music [Browse]
• Circumcision—Songs and music [Browse]
• Folk music—Lesotho [Browse]
• Folk songs, Sotho—Lesotho [Browse]

Related name

• Wood, Bill [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Music [Browse]
• Folk music [Browse]

Series

Custom compact disc series [More in this series]

Notes

• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: FE 4224 (on container spine: F-4224)
• Compact disc.

Time and place of event

Field recordings made at Roulin Secondary School, Mafeting District, Lesotho, between 1972 and 1975.

Language note

Sung in Sotho.

Contents

• Lekoa e khele banna = Hey, in the Valle, you men
• Tsoana li Malente = They are carrying Malente
• Marashea
• Bona maseiboko = Bona mase boko = Look at the goats
• Oa cho Sekubethe = You say Sekubethe
• Hae nkong tsa malimo = Hey, under the cannibal's noses
• He shebang koana = Hey, look the other way
• Linokana = Streams
• Semonkoula
• Train journey to the Republic of South Africa
• E thata = Fierce one, A
• Khoba = Dance song
• Ico ka cha = Hey, I'm burning
• Abuti Jesefa o rekile koloi = Brother Joseph has bought a
• Holy mama
• Etang nonyana e tsoang khekulo = Bird has come from afar
• Ntoa hae e loana ke mosebetsi = Fighting a war is hard work
• Machine o teng = There is a machine
• Ntate Wood re tla sala le mang = Mr. Wood, with whom will we
• Leha ka bua, leha le ka suma = Even if you talk or mock us
• Hee ea tla sala = Hee, the one who will remain here.

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Other title(s)

Circumcision songs

Publisher no.

• FE 4224
• F-4224

OCLC

44940112

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