Only A Hunter Walks Alone

It is only a hunter who walks alone

When the sun is asleep

When the eye of the leaves sees not

The light from the moon

And only the caressing sound of his smock

On their dangling leaves is heard

I see guns pointed at the poor open sky

I see the back of them on their head top

Faces are marked in white

Around they move

Red eyes look in confusion

Hunu eje shi dun soo

Shi dun soo   ( refrain)

How can a bird in flight have a gun hidden in its wings

And will rather shoot through its mouth

Where is the child with the sword who wants to kill the lion

Sit by my feet and I will spit in your mouth

When the elders invite you into their midst

you will know how to well wash your hands to their feast

Day will not break forth

Without seeing the name of the hunter on mleloo

The downpour that led to this

The hostage of the hunter

Who entered the forest that dawn to pluck baa

Hunu eje shi dun soo

Shi dun soo   ( refrain)

We know not for the one who knows not

We will keep if not him kill

Let them know even to the ends of the earth

We know not for the one who knows not

We are the woods

We made them

We are what is within them

We know them

May the drink of the elders

Not alone sink into the earth

But their roots let it pick and keep

We remember their deeds this day

Ada Mantse welenpe

For the fall of their kind

For their folk songs when they went gay

Koo Koolokoto ...

Koo Koklobigbanten...

Who woke me up from my deep dream of peace?

Where is that cock that has desecrated my afternoon?

Bring me Osaagyefo

Bring me Bussia

Bring me Hila

Bring me the learned Prof.

You woke me up

I summoned them

Voices only echoed into the blowing air

You break a pot of akpeteshie on the bare earth

Who said run away from my fire

When my match lighted up

Hahahahahah

The feet of the hen has never killed its chicks

I will speak once more before I accept my pacification

Before i sleep again

Hoping no one will again me wake

Hunu eje

Hunu eje shi dun soo

Shi dun soo   ( refrain)

I will tell of the tale told of yesteryears

The tale they told i will tell

I will tell my way

My way not their way

But their tale

The tale of old

Of far away

Where the earth meets the heavens

A truck without brakes on a slope steep

None can stop this lip of mine

None stops it on its track in full speed

So I will speak

I will speak my mind: their mind;

Through your minds, your hearts it will enter  

 There it will grow

This vegetation pure and spotless and green

Will need no pruning, weeding, watering

But will grow

Will grow

... grow

Hunu eje  hunu eje

shi dun so shi dun soo   ( refrain)

Sikridi

I will not die

I will walk to the grave yard

I will dig my own grave

My spade in my hand i will cover my self

hahaHa Sikridi: migboo ni maya mi gbonyo bu mli

I am more than a hunter

I go nowhere

Without the ancient spirit of the land

Around me they hover

Things to come me they tell

I dream before it comes

In a night vision i saw descending

Night, how memorable you are

Just after I close my eyes

No time to count the akpale tsee before the tap

Night, how memorable you are

nuu ko hi nyontsere mli

All was bright and fair

The old man with the single eye
Stands awake on top a tree high
The weary body aches
The itching feet in haste
Beginning by a step
To get there:
Becoming like our father I AM
His masterpiece I am.

Eyes woke up after a tap

Dreams seemed short

No more a vision

Real, a figure

From an unknown world came

Who will believe my story?

Come! he said

Come to wonderland

This figure I saw

In fear I obeyed

With curiosity I heard

His guidance I obeyed

And soon and soon we were away

Distance was not miles to travel

But in the mind  

Realms, constellation and times

By a will, all through, we went

Dazzling stars falling down

Like lightning flashes we saw

Neither storms nor tempest

Neither enemies nor foes

Only calm smooth ride

Reared its ugly heads

 As we rode on and on

A big room I saw

Of inventions to come and gone

Oh eyes one day will we hold

Oh blindness on earth will abound

Who will believe this story?

Who will share this pain?

I saw it but will not be there

I said it because I saw it

In awe I behold this new land I see

Sparkling clean no dirt I see

Earth unlike mine, not made of steel

Gold on the floor that stood the feet

Nothing that ought to be mined

Like my mine on earth, oh men

Streets of gold not tar so black

Only wishes I had and could be

Not horses to see more so ride

Who will believe this story?

Who will share this delight?

I saw it but for long will not be there

I said it because I saw it

Peace like a river

They lived more powerful than us

Yet not as vicious as we are

Not big not so tall

Men I saw, men not black

Men alive and kicking, men not red

Men so strong men not white

But men were blue like the sky

Men with iron on their necks

With big eyes like on the statues at Easter Islands   

I saw this but for long will not be there

I have said it because I saw it

I end this, this is my story

 

Kokrokoo Kokrokoo

Men in a chase

A cock in a flight

For desecrating the afternoon

The sleep of the elders

The peace of the land

His throat is slashed

For food to appease

The elders when awake

Their peace to restore

Kokrokoo Kokrokoo

Three parts the night divide

The silence to be broken

The ancient ones to begin

The journey to their homeward way

The men of the tribe

Their huts and shelters awake

Their praise to their maker

Through his sun

For clearing the fearful dark

Hunu eje shi dun soo

Shi dun soo   ( refrain)

The feet of the hen has never killed its cheeks

I will speak no more neither my wraths keep

Hoping none will again me wake

Sikridi hahaha

I will not die

I will walk to the grave yard

I will dig my own grave

My spade in my hand i will cover my self

Sikridi hahaha: migboo ni mahie keya mi gbonyo bu mli

Hunu eje shi dun soo

Shi dun soo   ( refrain)

Hunu enyo agbene

Eshwe wo mini

Eshwe wo shitee