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Taught by Dumisane Maraire, this ancestral song of the Tonga people of Zimbabwe celebrates their chief.

The clap, long-long-short-long-long, is 9 beats, 2 2 1 2 2.
The words to the four parts interlock in a question-and-answer polyphony.

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njanga njanga getse va Tonga
tisu nema ndirando
ndimambo
cho kurima woye

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from ASSORTED ONE​-​OFFS, 1997​-​2023, released February 7, 2016
Tom Ross and Deedee Huntington, vocals
Lisa Fines, whistle
accompanied by the Pandemonium

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Tom Ross Colorado Springs, Colorado

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As E Dickinson says:

Nature is what we know
but have no art to say
so impotent our wisdom is
to her simplicity

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