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Artist: Brenda Fassie
Canonical path: /brenda-fassie/too-late-for-mama
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Too Late For Mama
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Too Late For Mama
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Ten kilometers barefooted in the bush,
Started raining on the way to fetch some water,
Poor woman had a baby on her back,
Was struck by lightning on her way,
To fetch some water...
She tried hiding under a tree to save her child,
Poor woman had no place to go,
Lightning caught her with her baby on her back,
(?)
But it was too late
It was too late...too late for mama
Husband came running to the scene yeah,
Poor man held his dead wife in his arms,
Eyes full of tears not believing the nightmare,
Lay her down on the grass (?)
Too late...too late for mama
It was too late...too late
She tried hiding under a tree to save her child,
Poor woman had no place to go,
Lightning caught her with her baby on her back,
(?)
But it was too late
It was too late...too late for mama
It was too late (repeat w/ad-libs)
She's gone...she's gone...poor mama
It was too late (repeat w/ad-libs)
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Brenda Fassie performs "Too Late For Mama", and this lyric page sits inside the Brenda Fassie catalog on LyroVerse.
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