Makeshift Swahili - This Heat, Charles Hayward, Charles Bullen

Makeshift, she sings, in her native German

You try to understand what she’s trying to say

She says «You're only as good as the words you understand»

And you, you don’t understand a word

Tower of Babel, Swahili, it’s all Greek to me Bilingual, double Dutch, gift of the gab

We give you firewater you give us your land

«White man speak with forked tongue»

But it’s too late now to start complaining

Too late

Monosyllabic, hieroglyphic, et cetera, et cetera

New lamps for old

New lamps for old

Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb

Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb