Listen
to the lion roar
Echo 'cross the valley floor
Calling out in power and might
Calling through the African night.
Oh, where d'you go, mbube
Dark defying flickering fire
Crickets call unceasing choir
Culture cloaks it thin veneer
Cracks upon the walls appear.
Cool across savannah plain
Western wind whispers rain
Pug marks in the mud control
Access to the water hole
Hunters break the bounds of dawn
Silent through the camel thorns
Let the mighty lion beware
Man has set his traps and snares.
