17 June 2013

On the beach

In  March 1994 we went on holiday to the Wilderness and stayed at the Wilderness Holiday Inn.  Spent some of the days on the beaches and this is a clip of a collection of them.  Starting with Sand Castles and buried alive on the beach at Plettenberg Bay. Then Hop-Scotch on Herolds Bay beach and then Beach Tennis at Victoria Bay.  The sound is terrible on the original footage so I've taken a track from Johnny Clegg and Savuka's, Heat, Dust and Dreams album -Your Time Will Come.

Whatever it is, have a dream, and keep on dreaming.


And for those of us who cannot understand Zulu, the translation of the song is:

YOUR TIME WILL COME

You were lying - do not tell us lies
You told us lies, trying to mislead me,
So that I would give up my faith and hope
That is what you said - you said our future is hopeless
Our tomorrow is bleak
You were lying, trying to mislead us
No can do! We will never relinquish our faith

Everything will be alright -
It is just when this will be - we cannot know
Everything will come right, I tell you, friend
Do not throw away your hope
Me holding on one side, you holding on the other side
Together we will pull this through
Me and you, me and you

My spirits are down
I say to you child of my aunt -
You have caused me great fear
That is what you said - you said our future is hopeless,
our tomorrow is bleak, you were lying, trying to mislead us
No can do! We will never relinquish our faith.

Everything will be alright -
It is just when this will be - we cannot know
Everything will come right, I tell you, friend
Come true courage -
for it is you who gives me life and takes it away
Me on this side and you on the other, we will hold it together
Don't listen to the lies my compatriot
We will be victorious, in the end, just me and you
Just me and you

I saw the Berlin Wall fall
I saw Mandela walk free
I saw a dream whose time has come
Change my history - so keep on dreaming

Dream a dream on - dreamer

In the best of times and in the worst of times
Gotta keep on looking at the skyline
Not at the hole in the road
Your time will come, sister, your time will come
Nobody gonna rush history, we have to ease it along
- just ease it along

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