Oxamu - Click Song 2 (Miriam Makeba)

This song is a rhyme of "nonsense words" with no meaning. Kids in South Africa sing it to practise the various clicking sounds of the Xhosa language. I belive it's the letters "q" and "x" that represent the clicks.

Because the name of the song is so hard to pronounce, people just call it the "Click Song No. 2".

This is by far my most favorite video of Miriam! Just look how beautiful she is and listen to her amazing voice!

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Oxamu - Clicks Song 2 Lyrics

baxabene oxamu
bexabene ngengxongxo
bexakwe yinxu baxaka

qyike legqithigqele
laqinge igqele, laqinge qhude ni
beliqhatha baba bgeqotho leqhude

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Oxamu - Click Song 2 (Miriam Makeba)

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Jan 13, 2010
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Fantastic
by: Patrik

M.M. makes a presentation of the song here:
http://open.spotify.com/track/0oq40gJsRFViKrUaRiC0n4

Thank you.

Jan 02, 2010
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lyrics
by: Tudor

actually the words do mean something :D it's about iguanas quarelling or sth like that :)

Nov 03, 2009
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Amazing video!
by: African Music Safari

What a wonderful video, thanks Vanessa! It reminds me of something:

In her biography, Miriam mentions how shy she was as a young woman. That's hard to imagine when you see her shine on stage. But did you notice her shy look in the video as soon as the song is over? Too cute!