Video Information

• Choir: Cape Town Youth Choir
• Piece: Emlanjeni
• Composer:  Traditional Zulu
• Arranger:  Leon Starker
• Conductor:  Leon Starker
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Folk/Ethnic, Sacred
• Emlanjeni
  Cape Town Youth Choir
  Recorded live at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town
  August 2017
  
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  Cape Town Youth Choir
  Recorded live at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town
  August 2017
  
  If you wish to help us in our mission of sharing our music with the world, please consider donating to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/ctyc
  
  Conductor: Leon Starker
  
  Emlanjeni
  (Sung mostly in Zulu)
  
  Emlanjeni eBabiloni (By the river of Babylon)
  Sathi vuthu, sahlala phansi (where we sat down)
  Salila izinyembezi (And there we wept)
  
  Somandla siyabonga (Lord we thank you)
  Uthando isiphelona (For your love and refuge)
  Sikhala isithlupheka, (You heard our cries and troubles)
  Uyazisuli izinyembezi (And You wiped our tears)
  
  (“Yelele” is sound of praise)
  Yele yelele Jehova, Yele Yele Yele Yelele, Yele Yele
  Yele Yelele, Yele Yele Yele Modimo (The Lord, in Sotho)  less