"This May Be My Last Time" (also known as "This May Be The Last Time") African American Gospel Song & Ring Shout)

KATHY PHELPS, Nov 11, 2010

Mt Ramah Primitive Baptist Association 2010 Beauty Grove P.B. Church, Thomaston, GA
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The word "primitive" in that Christian denomination's name means "first" or earliest formed".
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/09/down-home-old-school-black-african.html for the pancocojams post "Down Home, Old School, Black (African American) Primitive Baptist Church Singing (video, information, & comments)."

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video of the African American composed Gospel song "This May Be My Last Time". This old school Southern African American Gospel song is also known as "This May Be The Last Time".

This post also includes the song lyrics of this rendition of "This May Be My Last Time" and a few selected comments from that video's discussion thread.

The content of this post is presented for religious, historical, socio-cultural, and aesthetic purposes.

I'm interested in documenting not just what is sung but how the call & response way the song is sung and how the pastor and the congregation moved while singing this song.  

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the unknown composer/s of this song. Thanks to all those who are shown in this video and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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This video has been added to this 2012 pancocojams post: African American Ring Shouts (Origins & Video Examples) https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/african-american-ring-shouts-origins.html

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LYRICS - THIS MAY BE MY LAST TIME
(unknown composer/s

This transcriptions is as the sung was sung by Mt Ramah Primitive Baptist Association in the video that is shown above)

Refrain: (sung by the Leader and the Congregation)

This may be my last time
This may be my last time
This may be my last time
Well, This may be the last time
I don't know.

(Repeat entire refrain several times)

VERSES*
These lyrics aren't sung in any particular order. 

Leader:
"This may be the last time. It may be the last."

"This may be the last time you treat me wrong."

"I just don't know I just don't know."

"This may be the last time you me hear me crying."

"This may be the last time you shake my hand."

Congregation:
"This may be my last time. I don't know."

*Example:
Leader: This may be the last time. It may be the last 
Congregation- It may be the last time. I don't know.
Leader: This may be the last time. It may be the last 
Congregation- It may be the last time. I don't know.
Leader: (Well) This may be the last time. It may be the last 
Congregation- It may be the last time. I don't know.

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The Leader may sing more than one of these lines in a verse before the Leader and the Congregation return to the refrain. The rendition can last for an unspecified time and verses can be introduced by the Leader or by a new Leader. However, the song always ends with the refrain.

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMuEWqraMTw

1.@realjag67, 2014
"Oh how wonderful to hear this song. Got me through many a bad times!"

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2. @LillieFuseWilliams, 2015
"Isn't it great that they don't just stand and watch as entertainment.  Everybody men, women, young, old, participate and enjoy!!"

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3. @PatsBooks, 2015
"It's called the ring shout.  Research it.  See how James Brown took this sacred song a nd
secularize it.  He on YouTube singing it."

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4. @lydiaboyd7629, 2022
"The point is that the ring shout is a very important and historical way are ancestors would praise God. Deep spiritual roots, originating in Africa."

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5. @Aunty_Yo, 2015
"Anyone know why they circle in the front?"

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6. @cottonmaxwell8, 2015
"they go around in a circle rocking"

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7. @PatsBooks, 2015
"It's the ring shout."

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8. @mssmmns, 2019
"This form of praise in a circle is prevalent in many West African, Caribbean, and South Carolina Gullah religious ceremonies. This our roots, sis!"

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9. @LillieFuseWilliams, 2015
"Sometime it's good to back home.  Cause it may be the last time.  The circle and rock could be a way of being in the number and become a part of the praise. As today's waving . A church back  then could ROCK!"

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10. @carimerriweather1190, 2018
"Love it!!!"

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11. @Tboyd-4, 2021
"Yes, the macon rock as my mom calls it. She's from macon. Ga"

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12. @maryoyewole4993, 2016
"unfortunately some of the youngsters are changing this old time Primitive Baptist to what they call "Progressive" with their drums, guitars, pianos, the noise that clouds, this real authentic sound. All these folks had a hardwood floor, the clapping hands"

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13. @resah18
"Ashé!!!  May the ancestors be praised!  May God be glorified!"

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14. @edloniaconner4069, 2022
"This is the singing I grew up with oh my goodness that's singing"

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15.@CatchTheFishy93, 2018
"I know this song in creek. Didnt realize it was a song in English too!"
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"Creek"= a Native American (Indian) language. Several commenters wrote in this discussion thread that their relatives were Native American and/or they also were part of the infamous "Trail Of  Tears" when Native Americans from the South were forced to relocate to Oklahoma.  

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16.@v.dargain1678, 2019
"A Cappella . The best way to sing a hymn ."

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17. @pawilliams6725, 2020
"This is called having church. The spirit of the Lord is in the house. Today's worship service is not like this"

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18. @missbritt288, 2020
"The song is a very old baptist hymn it is sung by both black baptist and also White Appalachians , there a song with the same melody common in Appalachian folklore called "Oh Death" It shows how far reaching African spirituality is within the heart of American worship life ,and its a true common denominator - This is American roots music as pure as you can get"

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19. @cynthiahoward9615, 2020
"Yes Yes Yes indeed and I don't know!!! I remembered this ole time religion singing and dancing 😂😂😂 my grandma's,moma auntee's use to hymn sing have good church seem like it was all day and then it was time to eat that good ole fashion home cooked 😋 food.i didn't understand back then but by God grace and mercy today wooow 😯 it's a pleasure to think back and a blessing to go far back in to time like That 😂😊😊... County Times!!! #Thatswussup??? My my my Lord"

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20. @kimmimeekins9334, 2021
"Oh my…. This brings back so many good memories of my childhood years, in my Baptist church…. All  A cappella singing. Such down  home soulful songs..good old fashioned Baptist churches didn’t need music….glory to GOD! Hallelujah!🙏🏾"

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21. @joandmims5538, 2021
"Love it. I remember the deacons singing this in church."

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22. @flaboi9523, 2022
"This song popped in my head today and had to search...this reminds me of my early days at church in Pensacola Florida...Mars hills Baptist Church..the older people use to kill it!..no instruments, just good ol clapping,feet stomping and "sanging"...miss this!!!!..."

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23. @living2liveagain1, 2023
"I miss my youthful days at Shady Grove AME Zion, where my Aunt Molly on the piano belting out hymnals like this. FOOT STOMPING, HAND CLAPPING JOY"

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24. @Martin-e1j, 2023
"That baptist stomp"

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25. @JasperRuffin, 2023
"Back in the 80s, We sang like this at my dad's church when the organist had other obligations and couldn't make it to service.

We may have sounded like we were on the plantation try'na get away from massa, but MAAN, you could sho nuff feel the spirit.

I miss those days!!

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26. @ReginaRoss-rh5to,2023
"I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS IN CHURCH.... I MISS THAT..."

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27. @jackieborden5041, 2023
"Oh yes I am seventy give years old and I remember this song from down I Louisiana and Arkansas. It will never get old."

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28. @MsJeanette46, 2023
"This is my type of church old school no musicians"

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29. @Magnolia5, 2023
"Hallelujah💜For me this will never be old.  Reminds me of my early childhood and young adult days.  My beginnings was in a Primitive Baptist Church.  I reminisce now a lot about those days, singing in A cappella , washing feet and prayer meetings.  So many traditions that are now absent from church worship.  Prayer was constant!!!"

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30. @christiansgrandma6812, 2023
"Where is this church located? I need to get there 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ We used to March around like that during testimonial midweek service. Miss those days. I'm so so grateful for that time. We kids enjoyed going to service. We were tucked in the back with the other kids with the olddest ursher lady,coloring and getting in trouble. Yet when they began to sing and stump, we were right there, singing, clapping and jumping.😊"
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Several commenters wrote that this church is located in Georgia (which is located in the southern region of the United States.)

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31. @mystaco, 2024
"I can hear the ladies’ heels hitting the wood floor & the pews bending from the rocking.  I’m 45 years old but this is how Devotion and testimony service would start.   Pastor would come out of the study and sit beside the deacons just smiling."

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32. @lillianwilliams5510, 2024
"We sang this as civil rights movement .

College students marching  and knowing we could possibly beaten, but surely going to jail."

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33. @earnestinereagan7490, 2024
"Don't let the young people change this song. I really like it."

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34. @moniquecooper1423, 2024
"Can someone  post the words to the sing please"

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35. @lillianwilliams5510, 2024
"If you listen.  It may be my last time.  It is FREEDOM Movement song.

Students and older people marching for civil rights.

 

GOOGLE  slave songs and Black Heritage songs.

Mostly sung in the South but also  in many city churches "

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36. @seikojones1491, 2025
"This is the type of gospel I love listening too."

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37. @BigSteve90473, 2025
"I’m 50 years old. This was a regular song during devotion. I was baptized at age 4 under Rev. Dr. S.W. Williams, New Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Buffalo, NY"

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38. @deeerv4905, 2025
"I didnt know yall got down like that up there in NY.  Praise God!!!"

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39.@marqj2781, 2025
"That synchronized dip they all doing , good country church"

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Video Examples Of The Hand Slapping Rhymes "Stella Ella Ola" And "Quack Diddley Oso"

wadafera, Uploaded on Jul 20, 2008

jugando
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A comment in this video's pancocojams discussion thread Chris indicates that the adults in this video were volunteering in Nicaragua and taught this rhyme to the children. However, they learned that the children already knew a version of this rhyme 

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases YouTube video examples of the English language hand slapping rhymes "Stella Ella Ola" and "Quack Diddley Oso". These rhymes are also known as "Strolla Ola Ola" and "Slap Billy Ola".

These lightly competitive recreational group games are played by children, teens, and/or adults. All of the players are seated in a circle or all of the players standing in a circle.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/11/stella-ella-ola-similar-group-hand.html "Stella Ella Ola" & Similar Group Hand Slapping Rhymes (Examples with Geographic Locations) PART I (A-H)__ for some word (lyrics) versions of these rhymes.

The content of this post is presented for folkloric and recreational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in these showcased videos and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube. 
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-to-play-down-by-banks-of-hanky.html for the closely related pancocojams post "Examples & Play Instructions For "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" Circle Hand Slapping Games"

Also, click the tags below to find more pancocojams posts about these rhymes.

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VIDEO EXAMPLES OF "STELLA ELLA OLA" AND "QUACK DIDDLEY OSO"
These examples are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

Showcase Video #1

This video is embedded at the top of this post.

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Showcase Video #2 - Quack Diddly O' So

TiDoSTAR, Feb 10, 2007

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Showcase Video #3 - Pirate Ship Park Cosplay Day: Stella Ella Ola

Nekoyasha2315, Jun 28, 2009

As it says in the video, My battery died so I posted a pic on the winner at the end Congrats Allen Walker (Hazel)

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Showcase Video #4 - SDTA Competition Team Unite Quack Dildy Oso

Royalty Drill & Dance Ensemble, Jul 14, 2022

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Showcase Video #5 - Skills2Action Stella Ella Ola

heartwoodcentre, Jul 17, 2013

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Showcase Video #6 - Stella Elle Olla

Davina Perret, Feb 15, 2016

Hand clapping game

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Showcase Video #7 -Stella ella olla.

AllisonSlag17Jul 5, 2011

This video was uploaded from an Android phone.

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Video Examples & Play Instructions For "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" Circle Hand Slapping Games

Girl Scout Troop 7579, Nov 7, 2021

DOWN BY THE BANKS

Have the players make a circle and put their right hand on top of the person to their right’s hand, and their left hand under the hand of the person to the left. When ready - start singing this song, while one person claps their right hand to the person on their left, and it is passed around the circle. When the song ends, whoever receives the final clap is out, or if the person takes her hand out and the person gets their own hand they are out. Continue the game until only one person is left. 

Song:

Down on the banks, Of the Hanky Panky,

Where the bull frogs jump, from bank to banky

with an: Eep!  Ipe!  Oop!  Op! 

Eases off the lily with a Kerplop!

 

Optional second verse:

Pepsi cola, ginger ale,

Ginger ale, ginger ale, ginger ale, ginger ale.

Pepsi cola, ginger ale,

Seven up, seven up, seven up, you're out!

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post focuses on play instructions for the English language recreational rhyme "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" that can be performed as a circle hand slapping game*. 

These hand slapping games can be played with all players seated on the ground or with all players standing up. 

This post demonstrates how there are a lot of different lyrics for hand clapping & hand slapping rhymes with the same or similar titles. None of these versions is more correct than another. 

The content of this post is presented for folkloric and recreational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who shared these examples and play instructions online. 
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*I refer to the circle game played while reciting a version of "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" as a "hand slapping game". I use that term to differentiate these circle games from its partner hand clapping games in which players stand or sit facing each other. However, as shown below in this post, some people refer to both of these types of games as "hand clapping games".

Read a description of the play instructions for a similar circle hand slapping game "Stella Ella Ola" (also known as "Quack Diddley Oso" and other names) in the discussion thread of this pancocojams post.

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This is part of an ongoing pancocojams series on the recreational rhyme "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky".

There are LOTS of pancocojams posts about this rhyme.  

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/03/part-i-of-some-examples-of-down-by_22.html for the pancocojams post entitled "Part I of Some Examples Of "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" Rhymes With Geographic Locations (A - J)" 

and

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/03/part-ii-of-some-down-by-banks-of-hanky.html "Part II of Some "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" Rhymes" With Geographic Locations (K - Z)" 

Also, click the tags below for additional pancocojams posts for history about and additional examples of the HUGE recreational rhyme family of "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky".

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/video-examples-of-hand-slapping-rhymes.html for this post that includes video examples of the very similar hand slapping games "Stella Ella Ola" and "Quack Diddley Oso."

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ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES FOR "DOWN BY THE BANKS OF THE HANKY PANKY" (AND SIMILAR TITLES)
These rhyme examples are given in alphabetical order based on the first letter of that rhymes' names. The examples of the same rhyme aren't given in no particular order.  

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

DOWN BY THE BANKS OF THE HANKY PANKY (and similar titles)

1.This example is given at the top of this post.

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2. Down By The River With The Hanky Panky

Mayacuda, May 22, 2011

Ari & Classmates on the playground @ Baldwin Hills Gifted Magnet (Los Angeles, May 2011 (1st grade)

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3. 

hanky panky from ActiveMusic.com

Active Music,  Sep 18, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfsaHfIBxvQ

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4.

Example & Play instructions:

"You stand or sit in a circle with a few people and have your right hand on top of the person next to you's left hand and the opposite for the left hand. Then you all sing the song and one at a time clap your hand on the person to your left's hand. Then they will pass it on to the next and so on. Then when you get to the vowel part, you continue the same thing until someone claps the other person on the word OUT. If the person pulls away before they are clapped, they stay in the game but if the other person is too quick for them and claps them, they are out of the game. The game continues like that.

Well the version I know goes:

Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky

Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky

With an A, E, I, O, U (you), R (are), out!"
-GUEST, Stephanie, 16 December 08, https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94034&page=6&desc=yes, Origins: Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky

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Example & Play Instructions:

I'm from Alabama. We always said:

Down by the bank of the hanky pank

where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank

singing eeps ops ohps oops

one well in and went ker PLOP.

 

we also sit around in a circle, left hand under right and slap each others' hands. On "plop" whoever got hit was out."
-GUEST, 12 October 08,  https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94034&page=6&desc=yes, Origins: Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky

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Example & Play Instructions:
"One of my 2nd graders taught a hand clapping game in our music class in Abilene, Texas 5-30-08.

Down by the bay, by the bay, the bay,
Where the bullfrogs jump from bay to bay,
Where the eeps, ahps, ohps, ahps
Bowl fulla jelly and a ker-plop.

The children stand in a cirle with hands extended palms up. The right hand is on top of the one to the right and the left in beneath the one to the left. The beat is passed around clockwise as the players slap their neighbor to the left. On 'plop' they must hit the neighbor's hand before it is pulled away. If you hit your own hand, you're out. If you hit the neighbor's hand, he is out. The last two standing lock fingers and "saw" to the beat and tug on plop like tug of war. The one who pulls someone over the line is the winner."
-GUEST,Guest, Walker, 03 Jun 08, https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94034&page=6&desc=yes, Origins: Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky

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7. Down On The Banks Of The Hanky Panky



Steve Browning, Aug 12, 2019

Manitoba Musings--The 2019 Vradenburgh Reunion

** 8. Down By The Banks

Philip Florio, Feb 24, 2015

Gva second grade hand clapping game ****
9. Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky



CJ (DL Tomboy), May 14, 2010

This was right after I lost...(oh darn it, I lost the game... :( :P ) & we were on a break at championships oh & no one really knows who won...either Shanen or Stephanie... & thanks to Kayla for singing for us ;D -CJ

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The Gwijo "Yebo Lapho" Is An Example Of An African Song That Has A Great Beat & Sounds Beautiful But Also Has "X" Rated Lyrics

Pistole Gwijo, Aug 20, 2024  #gwijokings #gwijo #pistolegwijo

By @UnkleMsarow
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WARNING- This isiXhosa gwijo includes words that are "x" rated. 

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video of the viral gwijo "Yebo Lapho" as sung by Unkle Msarow and the gwijo kings.

This post also includes selected comments from the discussion thread for that video. Those comments focus on how Unkle Msarow's rendition of "Yebo Lapho" sounds beautiful and has a catchy beat, but also has "x" rated lyrics

In addition, this pancocojams post presents selected comments from two Tik Tok videos. Those comments focus on how the commenters were surprised that that gwijo described an x rated bedroom sexual scene.

In my opinion, "Yebo Lapho" refutes the relatively commonly found statement that "Music is a universal language we can all bond over". Instead, that Xhosa language gwijo reminds people that of the importance of being aware of the meanings of a song's lyrics in a language you're not familiar with before embracing that song as one of your favorite jams.  

The content of this post is presented for socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their  owners.

Thanks to Unkle Msarwo and the gwijo kings. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the producers of this YouTube video and this Tik Tok video. 

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DISCLAIMER:
I am an African American who doesn't read or speak any language but English.

I don't have any direct knowledge of South African culture and the only information that I have about that culture and the Xhosa language is from my reading on and off the internet.

Additions and corrections are welcome.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTES ABOUT SHOWCASE VIDEO #1 AND THAT YOUTUBE VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
The gwijo "Yebo Lapho" (Xhosa meaning "Yes, over there" is a viral hit in South African and in some other nations based on the number of social media videos and comments.

Unkle Msarow's version of "Yebo Lapho" and other versions I've come across online feature the standard "Zampampam" refrain that is found in other amagwijo (plural for "gwijo") with the title "Yebo Lapho" or other gwijo that don't include that title or any of those lyrics. Based on what I think I hear in that showcased Unkle Msarow YouTube video, here's what I refer to as the standard Zampampam refrain:

"Zampampam
Zampampam
iyhoo ah zampampa"

This fixed refrain is sung by the group in response to the leader's varying lines (call).

Although the title of the showcase "Yebo Lapho" video that is embedded at the top of this pancocojams post indicates that it includes lyrics for that song, the Xhosa lyrics (with no translations in another language) are written in captions within that video for only 0.41 seconds of that 2:24 video. Why are there no captions for the remainder of this video? Is this a way of not acknowledging that the lyrics for that song refer to a x rated sexual scene?

Furthermore, that video's summary doesn't include any of that song's lyrics and only a few comments in that video's discussion thread refer to any of that song's lyrics.

Most of that video's discussion thread focus on how beautiful that song sounds and how people throughout the world love singing it or dancing to it, even if they don't understand what the words to the song mean.

Here's my transcription of that song's lyrics that are given in that video along with the Xhosa to English translation of those words given in parenthesis. Imo, those results reinforce my opinion that Google translation shouldn't usually be considered as an accurate translation of gwijo songs (in large part because of the cultural differences between South Africa and the United States).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTOzHCLw-hk

Nango umalamola seka bheke umandlamini
(Even if you look at the river, you will see)

Nango u16 seka gijimisi v
(Here is the 16th runner v)

(Athi uyababona seba bhekane ngo 6)
He said that he saw them stealing from each other at 6

 Zampampam pam
(No translation given)

Hebathi yebo
(He said yes)

Yebo lapho
(Yes,here)

Kufunek isbhamu somdoko
(Need a shotgun)

Hayi yaya
(No, it went)

Zampampam
(No translation)

Zampampam
(No translation)

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Here are two of the very few comments in the discussion thread for Uncke Msarow's "Yebo,Lapho" video that mentions lyrics to that song. These examples are numbered for referencing purposes only: 

1. @nonkuthalozondi802, 2024
"so sweet i like the part when he say nangu umadlamini esekabheka umalamula and it end when he say aaa ach men"
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Here are the Google translate results for this sentence from Xhosa to English:
"nangu umadlamini esekabheka umalamula" =here is a drunkard still looking at the lemon

 "aaa ach men" = oh my god

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2. @makunguchabangu, 2024
"Nangi u16 seka gijimisi v🔥🔥❤️"
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from the on page Google translation feature for this video:
"“I'm 16 and I'm running v🔥🔥❤️”

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Most of the comments in that video's discussion thread either praised the lead singer Unkle Msarow, and/or praised that song, praised the amamgwijo music genre, described their positive reactions to that song, or ranked the currently popular gwijo lead singers.

Here are a few examples of these comments (numbered for referencing purposes only).

2024
1.@NomhlepertuniaMashabane
"Love this gwijo❤❤❤❤"

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@AsandaNkambule-h5w
"100%guys this is 100%

❤"

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3. @BokamosoNtuli-d7y
"Yoo msaro  what  a nice song❤"

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4. @thapelomagaxa5804
"his voice wow they are only 4 but the talent is amazing keep it up"

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5. @OmphemetseKgopa
"oh what a nice remix ❤"

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6. @BonisiweMpanza-f8n
"This Voice is makes me feel good ❤❤❤"

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7. @Rmkays.132
"Yhoo these guys are fire

Love their music, always making me feel alive and making me wish l was there singing with them❤❤❤😊😢

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8. @WillmahMagida
"You sing like a angel ❤❤❤"

2025

9. @MatsedisoMdi-t2e
"Wow❤❤it is a nice gwijo❤❤❤"

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10. @IngridSelamolela
"I love this song is my favourite song for ever and ever amen and make crying😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤"

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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-possible-source-for-xhosa-word.html for the 2025 pancocojams post "A Possible Source For The Xhosa Word "Zampampam" That Is Used As A Title And/Or Refrain In Certain Amagwijo (Call & Response Songs)."

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/06/general-gee-zampampam-gwijo-video-with.html "General Gee & Group - "Zampampam" (Gwijo) video with partial lyrics with English translation"

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[Unfortunately, I don't know how to embed Tik Tok videos in this pancocojams blog.]

This video and the selected comments from its discussion thread are numbered for referencing purposes only.

https://www.tiktok.com/@yanolyrics_extra/video/7392519723126131973?lang=en "yanolyrics_extra: Yebo Lapho English translation😂…, published by Yano Lyrics Extra 💚, 2024-7-17

1. rat
"what is this translation 😭😭"

2024-7-17

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2. risten🐆

"I lost it at porridge gun😭💔"

2024-7-17

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3. Chanda!!
"Holding what ???😭😭😭🤣🤣"

2024-7-18

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4. Kamogelo Montisi-Taw
"Lol nah these lyrics must be wrong 😂😂"

2024-7-18

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5. Londeka Dlamini
"😂😂"

2024-7-20

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6. thobz52
"No really 😂"

2024-7-22

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7. creezy
"How's this song Legal😭😭😭😭"

2024-7-17

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8. aubreykanji
"south africans y'all been singing this all this time ahh"

2024-7-18

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9. kay_bee
"Even at school😂"

2024-7-19

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10. Frieda🫠❤️♾️
"I never expected this😭😅"

2024-7-17

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11. Sibahle Mtana
"No guys you don’t have to make a literal translation of everything."

2024-7-19

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12. CHIHERA
"this is why you should know the meaning of these tunes before singing your heart out 😭😭😭😭"

2024-7-18

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13. king mafi
"all l do learn is never never ever 💯 translate amapiano some of them especially this generation 🤣🤣 jut do the dance challenge and enjoy 🤣🤣"

2024-7-18

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14. Nva_Kyankwanzi🇺🇬
"the way we all was vybing to it 😂"

2024-7-18

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15. lucie💜💜💜🇹🇿❤️‍🔥
"😂😂😂😂"

2024-7-18

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16. kelvincumbe1
"It's worse than I thought😭😭😭"

2024-7-18

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17. Sizwe Mkhize
"😅😅😅😅"

2024-7-18

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18. Chris
"I prefer not to understand 💔💀"

2024-7-18

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19. blackbrunette_nancy
"No ways 🤭🤭🤭🤭 what?"

2024-7-18

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20. Ayanda Cekiso
"it's doesn't make sense in English keep it like that"

2024-7-19

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21.emanuelchimzythun
"😂😂😂😂 look what you did to my fave song💔"

 2024-7-19

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22. kearsa🏳️‍🌈🥹💕

"you mara ke I enjoy this song but don't know the translation😔😂"

2024-7-19

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17. miriam
"😂😂😂"

2024-7-19

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18. PITSO NDABA
"😂😂😂 rather not translate coz wow"

2024-7-19

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19. Thoby_23
"😂😂😂"

2024-7-19

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20. Dineo❤️
"lol 😂 the day I listened to this song properly I was shook".

2024-7-19

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21. JaneenMelissa
"😭😭😭😭😭😭"

2024-7-24

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22. Dii
“A porridge gun is needed” for what?😂😂😂😭

2024-7-19

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23. Silver Moon
"I thought everyone understood this song😭???"

2024-7-20

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24. Yols
"No 😭"

2024-8-3

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25. BoitumeloM
"Its worse in english 😭😭😭😭😂😂"

2024-7-20

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26. d33_Vers
"😂😂😂I was NEVER ready 😭🙏"

 2024-7-21

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27. janeyy_m3
"😂😂😂Why direct translation ?"

 2024-7-21

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28. @...danon ✨🎀
"Pov:ur mind is..... If yk, yk🤣😭"

2024-7-21

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29. Nangula_E4🇳🇦
"what are you guys making us sing along to😭😭😭"

2024-7-22

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30. Dj Hlukzin 👑🙏
"aowa I'm no more singing this song😭"

2024-7-22

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31. Nolwazi K🌸
"😭😭😭😭✋🏽"

2024-7-22

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32.  Witty🦋🌺

" The dance is so cool though 😂😂😂😂the words🙌🙌🔫🔫"

2024-7-23

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33. sunshine
"it's a joke because the meaning is different in our languages and it's just hard to translate it ends up sounding like nonsense 😂"

2024-7-23

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34. Gulia🇳🇬🇮🇹

"I have learnt my lesson🤣🤣"

2024-7-23

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35. moodswingssz
"welcome to sasa frika where we dance to what we don't know it means"

2024-7-26
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"sasa frika" - a colloquial way of saying "South Africa".

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36. Phuluphedziso
"Why did i sing it in those English lyrics 😭😩"

2024-7-28

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37. EasyRipper aka Jaja Tayo
"Wow no no. Wait what the hell yall got us singing lol what!?"

2024-10-19

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38. Yols
"Never singing it loud again lol wtf"

2024-8-3

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This video and the selected comments from its discussion thread are numbered for referencing purposes only.

https://www.tiktok.com/@leanzo_theron/video/7401093787994344709 
The first video caption (written in English) “I can’t listen to this song anymore after knowing the English lyrics.”

published by Is That Leanzo?, 2024-8-9 

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1. AllLove_365
"Hello be singing this with his innocent looking face 😂😂"

2024-7-18

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2. kabo.diale
"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

2024-7-18

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3. Prosper Makhamba
"Doesn’t make sense in English 😂😂😂"

2024-7-26

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4. pourstiel.saxx
"yes our languages can't be translated bro"

2024-7-26

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5. kelvincumbe1
"It's worse than I thought😭😭😭"

2024-7-18

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6. Chris
"I prefer not to understand 💔💀"

2024-7-18

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7. blackbrunette_nancy
"No ways 🤭🤭🤭🤭 what?"

2024-7-18

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8. Dineo❤️
"lol 😂 the day I listened to this song properly I was shook."

2024-7-19

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10. Ayanda Cekiso

"it's doesn't make sense in English keep it like that"

2024-7-19

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5. Dj Hlukzin 👑🙏
"aowa I'm no more singing this song😭"

2024-7-19

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6. @emanuelchimzythun
"😂😂😂 look what you did to my fave song💔"

2024-7-19

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7. user87327547
"why are you translating it 😭😭😭😂"

2024-7-22

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8.Micodi
"The (direct) translation is wild 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂"

2024-7-21

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9.  Mkhonza
"Gun porridge?😂😂😂"

2024-7-21

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10.Buhlebendalo 🪷 🇿🇦
"these lyrics...ngeke💀"

2024-7-22
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11. shaun
"😂😂translate it properly chief"

2024-7-22

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12. Aka Ninja
"then people still say there's nothing wrong"

2024-7-25

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13. Infinity_soul❤️
"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭 “yess yes a porridge gun is needed”

2024-8-9

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14.Grace🎀😍
"Imma search it"

2024-8-9

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12. Grace🎀😍
"Should’ve stayed curious"

2024-8-9

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13. Danica💋
"the lyrics are heavy yoh😭"

2024-8-11

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14. Reply
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 "us who always knew the lyrics 👇"

 2024-8-12

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 15. Callyn Alexander
"and the way people dance it but dont know the actual lyrics 😂"
2024- 8-14

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16. Tati
"But yet here you are dancing to it 😂

2024-8-14

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17. Yung Angel
"Yes Yes over there A porridge gun is neede

2024-8-21

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18. English Police𓅓
"Porridge??? 😭😭😭"

2024-8-17

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19. tshepi
"what does it mean"

 2024-8-20

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20. londiwe 😋🤪🤪
"a boys infront💀"

2024-8-20

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21. tshepi
"thanks"

2024-9-13

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22. _D.ian_a
"Me too this song took away my innocence 😭😭😭😭😭

2024-8-21

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23. Mimi💋
"I thought I was the only one😭😭"

 2024-8-21

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24. zykara 101
"I can never delete this frm my memory ,yohhhh🤣🤣🤣🤣"

2024-8-29

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25. princeĖßakhe
"whyyyyyyy"

2024-9-25

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26. ❤️shady❤️
"tℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛"

 2024-9-25

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27. Cindy Hassan
"for real 😭😭😭😭"

 2024-9-25

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28. hazelhoffman2
"that gun will make thing appear after 9 months😱😱😱"

2024-9-26

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29. girvan_n
"😂😂😂😂"

2024-10-27

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30. girvan_n
"God bless your innocent mind"

2024-10-27

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31. Stunna
"And this is song we are screaming"

2024-8-15

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31. maya🌺🐻
"after translation I won't sing loudly 🤣😂😂

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂"

2024-8-15

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32. Jomo Sedibane
"but why are you still listening to it"

2024-9-25"

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