FREEDOM SONG BY UNIP FROM CHIENGE, 1962

FREEDOM SONG BY UNIP ZAMBIA WORKERS OF CHIENGE DURING CHA CHA CHA, 1962

Mwebantu fumyeni umwenso mu mitima yenu

            Mwe bana ba Zambia,

Culileni calo cenu

            Ukusansa muka ekwa linga kuli fwe  bene mpanga

            Abeni ba leya

Ba leposa kashita

Inshita yabo yapwa

Twasosa atuti

Ba Infoma kakeni

Kabiyeni naba Mwisa

Ifwe nifwe ba UNIP

Pamo nge mpalume

 ishilwilo ubuntungwa

Ba Chandwe Musonda wesu

Mwilalaba kubana benu

Abo mupumwa nabo

Imfumu shasosa

Ta tulwile chalo

Kamofye indalama

Waumfwa tu Kapaso

Tulelesha abanabo ukupunda freedom.

(The Freedom Song as sung to me by my now late Father Damson Katele alias “Polopotwe”,(MHSRP). a freedom fighter, 29^th March 2012 sung in 2 B key) This was their Cha Cha Cha Song. This year of Golden Jubilee, Can my Music fraternity do justice to it, arrange and score which ever wayand sing aloud in whichever Language?)Chandwe Musonda Road in Lusaka’s Villa Elizabetha is named after the hero referred to here who was killed during Cha Cha CHa

Literal Translationin English

People of Zambia

Be not afraid

Conquer your fear in your hearts

Suffer for your motherland

Because joy befits us the owners of  our land

Stranger please go

Waste no time

Yours is over now

We also say

Informers pack up

With your masters go

WE are the UNIP

The Strong who fight for independence

Our Chandwe Musonda

Forget not your gallant people

With whom you are beaten

The traditional Chiefs say

WE struggle not for country

Only for the  money

And you see their Chief retainers

With force they try to stop us sing the freedom song

KAKA