{"id":8467,"date":"2015-07-23T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T08:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/dookoom-larney-jou-poes\/"},"modified":"2015-07-23T08:10:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T08:10:33","slug":"dookoom-larney-jou-poes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/dookoom-larney-jou-poes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dookoom: Larney Jou Poes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this song and video<\/a>, the hip hop crew Dookoom<\/a> addresses the exploitative working and living conditions of farm workers in South Africa. spo0ky from Dookoom was kind enough to send us an english translation of the song:<\/p>\n

Intro_
\nFarmer Abrahams had many farms,
\nand many farms had farmer Abrahams,
\nI work one of them and so would you,
\nSo let’s go burn ’em down.<\/p>\n

Verse 1 (English translation from Afrikaans)_
\nI lift up my eyes to heaven – so dark,
\nThe pigs eat me because I mix with bran,
\nI always push shit, workers know that kind of living.
\n‘Cos the boss makes it harder \/ difficult \/ impossible to live,
\nFed up of being tired,
\nToo many calls on my SIM card fucked up my signal,
\nMy soul and my body’s fighting again, I’m feeling crippled,
\nI’m thinking, “Fuck you,I’ll burn your farm down, now you can work it like
\nI do.”<\/p>\n

Bridge_
\none day there was, and then there wasn’t -x3
\nI’m so deep in the shit, I’m in the toilet with a snorkel<\/p>\n

Chorus_
\nDuck down, they’re running there x3
\nThat’s my formula<\/p>\n

Bridge 2_
\nFuck you boss man x3
\nI won’t do what you tell me!
\nRepeat x2<\/p>\n

Verse 2_
\nBra remember, you come here in 1652,
\nYou a skollie (criminal) too,
\nYou were fokkien sentenced with a convict crew,
\nYou robbed and screwed the natives, now who’s the savage?
\nIn 1657 the National Party was established,
\nYou garbages ravaged the balance from the get-go,
\nYour bloodline was thuggin’ long before there was even a ghetto,
\nYour constitution was born from cons abusin’,
\nthere’s no bomb defusin’- my shit is lit, no calming this Bushman,
\nLook at your founding father’s curriculum vitae –
\nJan van Riebeeck was the fuckin’ Ernie Lastag of his day,
\nHe did pigallela with depression and hunger,
\nSome brothers rebelled, hence Nongalosa and Mpumalanga.
\nUp in your quarters you’re calling my people bandits, damnit!
\nHater taught hate that’s why we gang bang it,
\nmy family spread over the plantations,
\nAnd by the way, who the fuck is you to call my frustrated ass a racist?<\/p>\n

Chorus_
\nDuck down, they’re running there x3
\nThat’s my formula<\/p>\n

Outro_
\nFarmer Abrahams had many farms,
\nand many farms had farmer Abrahams,
\nI work one of them and so would you,
\nSo let’s go burn ’em down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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