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Azanian Love Song 1 Blood River Blood River Is redder than the setting sun in winter For it relives The dark lean years When a pact with God Was signed and sealed in blood Small wonder black children weep On the river banks When elders are baptised To the thumping of Ama-Zioni drums They too recall those lean years When the setting sun was not redder Than the River of Blood Which drowned the black man’s liberty ...

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