Uploaded June 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Photography: Sebastião Salgado / Album: Angola '72, Morabeza Records (1972)

Lyrics: Attention! I'm in mortal danger
And I've already warned you
She will stay here and I will go away
This child of mine
Evil people are after her
This child of mine
On a tide of misfortune

God gave me this offspring
That I brought into the world
And she will stay here
When I am gone

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