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The Pilgrim
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The Pilgrim

Tracks:

  1. G8
  2. The Pilgrim
  3. Headlines
  4. Morrison Hotel
  5. Lady Amber
  6. Rock Steady (with Tidal Waves)
  7. Russian And Chips (aka The Kid He Came From Nazareth)
  8. Bury Me When
  9. Mozambique
  10. Tribal Fence
1. G8 (J.S. Martin/J.P. Botha)

There's a leader on the run
He's got your soul to pay
And he just jumped on a plane
And he doesn't care about your pain
Oh no…

So you better look around
There's not much sun left today
And the rain's gonna come
And then we'll all be the same
Don't try to calm me down
Don't try to calm me down
Don't try to calm me down
No….the fields are on fire

I saw people marching with banners held high
I saw soldiers with guns and a man had to die
How long will the poor and the hungry be forgotten?
Tell me how long?
I turn and I turn
And I watch the burning sky…

Now the fields are on fire
They're chasing the spirits in vain
And the real time will come
In the land of the spirits we'll play
Don't try to calm me down
Don't try to calm me down
Don't try to calm me down…no…
The fields are on fire

I saw people marching with banners held high
I saw soldiers with guns and a man had to die
There will be no new Jerusalem
The old one will burn down again and again
Look at your leaders
Like the madmen they smile
I turn and I turn and I watch the burning sky

2. The Pilgrim (J.P. Botha)

We've travelled so far with the sun behind us
But our journey has just begun

So we came upon the river
There was no one on the other side
You have to turn back now
"I want to go with you !" she cried
I said no the river is deep and the river is wide

When I'm gone will you miss me
Even think of me sometimes
If I hurt you I am sorry
I did not mean for this to be
I was caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea

All my old friends they're all gone now
But for Maloney and Moonshine Lee
We must be travelling on now
It's a long way to Mozambique
Where the water is blue and the water is deep

Fear not child the wild winds
Even the storm it has to pass
Fear not the seasons changing
All the colours are still the same
And the thunder and the rain

We've travelled so far with the sun behind us
But our journey has just begun

3. Headlines (J.S. Martin/J.P. Botha)

Just like walking just like talking
Just like breathing to kill my friend
It's so easy
today
Another paper with another headline
Sends another family
Downstairs
It's so easy
today

Woke up this morning with my feet on the ground
Ready to run from this Godless town
Ruby said she's got a bad feeling inside
Don't come home in the headlines

What about the good times?
What about the sunshine?
Never make it to the headlines
I don't want to read the paper

4. Morrison Hotel (J.P. Botha)

I went down to the Morrison Hotel
But nobody could tell me
Which room you were in
So I turned around
Got back into my car again

Driving on freeways
Late at night
Dreaming of ghosts
Driving on freeways
Dreaming of ghosts
Where is the jungle music?
Where are the voodoo women?
Dance with fire you can love me today
And you can leave me tomorrow

Love me today leave me tomorrow
But let's go down a road that we don't know
We can always get what we need
Where we are going

I went down to the Morrison Hotel
But nobody could tell me
Which room you room you were in
Nobody could tell me if you
Were ever coming back this way again…

5. Lady Amber (J.P.Botha/J.S.Martin)

Your love is just like poison
Like the black snake do
It goes into my veins in my blood
In my heart in my soul
If I don't leave by morning
Then I might never find never find
Never find my way home

Loving you was always easy baby
Don't you love it when the sun goes down
I can hear them crying out for more
And pretty soon we all fall down
Ring a ring a rosie
My lady Amber what can I do
Still haven't found anyone like you
I have to leave now you know that I do
Dagger in my heart and the sky is blue

There really is no reason
Why I should stay with you
You like to play in the night in the dark
In the cemetery
Your breath is warm and sweet
I remember well
But that is all I recall and the rest is
Just best left unsaid

6. Rock Steady (J.P. Botha)

Don't cry sister hard times will come
Soon they be over oh they be gone
Happy days is coming
It won't be long
Rock steady this will be your song
This will be your song

In the city they took me
For everything I had
Promises of good times
All I found was bad
So much bad weather and bad company
Lordy Lord what will become of me
Rock steady on the road down to the sea
Rock steady on the mountain high
Peace will come to I and I

Now as I leave you
In your state of make believe
I burn all the contract
Now you can see
You do not own me
I will always be free
Rock steady what will be will be will be

7. Russian and Chips (Trad / R. MacKay)

The Kid he came from Nazareth
His father's only son
When he came from Nazareth
He was a hellhound on the run
He was a hellhound on the run

I'll remember Nazareth
When you face me with your gun
For when you aim
You'll shoot to kill
That hellhound on the run
He was a hellhound on the run

8. Bury me when (J.P. Botha)

So proud
We wander thru the earth
Gathering riches
Building palaces
And looking away
Shining body statue
Feet are made of clay
What did you do for your brother today?

Bury me when there is rain
On the mountains of the moon
The mist can be the shroud
And then it's back
Back to the earth we go
As if we didn't know

Gold that shines so brightly
All just stone and earth
Madmen in high buildings
Give it it's worth
And they make your movie stars
And they make the slaves
What did you do for your brother today?

Bury me when the stars
Shine bright over Zanzibar
The moon can be the preacher
And the tide can do the rest
You don't have to be perfect
Just do your best

9. Mozambique (J.P. Botha)

Where blue water meets white sand
The ocean has a name she is called India
And the tall trees dance in the wind
It's a slow dance can't you see
Ah you beauty
Beautiful Mozambique

We must get back to the garden

And I beg of you
For forgiveness for all the deeds
Our fathers did do
Surely comes a time
Many years of peace and prosperity
Ah you beauty
Beautiful Mozambique

Everyday I wake up dreaming
This is where I want to stay
Far from the black city
Where the dragon wants your soul
The system wants control
But I will not go
I will stay here where the water meets the sand
In this wild and wonderful land
Ah you beauty
Beautiful Mozambique

I often think about you Gito
When I walk barefoot on the sand
We must get back to the garden
We have to get back to the garden

10. Tribal Fence (R. MacKay)

Say you are my brother
Say you are my son
But don't ask me who's the father
There might not be one

Say you are my lover
Say you are our child
But there's bound to be a mother
Though she's 1990 styled

When will we be
When will we be
Past tribal fence
And family tree

Say you are the ancient ape
Now naked in your youth
But there's one thing that we must learn
So as to teach the truth

Say you are my brother say you are my son
But don't ask me who's the father
There might not be one

All lyrics supplied by Piet Botha, June 2005.


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Discography

  • Wheel Of Fortune (single)
  • Bushrock 1
  • Horings Op Die Stoep (EP)
  • Jack Of All Trades
  • The Judas Chapter
  • Ghosts On The Wind
  • Death Of A Gypsy
  • Suitcase Vol Winter
  • Jan Skopgraaf
  • Anthology
  • Bootleg (live)
  • Die Hits
  • Die Mamba
  • Live At The Nile (live)
  • The Pilgrim
  • TuksFM Sessions
  • Highway 13
  • Handful Of Rain

  • Piet Botha The Early Years
    (Raven, Wildebeest)
  • Piet Botha Solo
  • Jack Hammer
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