AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
[Verse 1]
GAGAGADDsus4D
All along the rive-e-e-er Chelmsford's army lay asleep,
GAGA
Come to crush the children of Mageba-a-a-a,
GADDsus4D
Come to exact the realm's price for peace,
BmG
And in the morning as they saddled up to ride,
BmGGA
Their eyes shone with the fire and the steel,
BmG
The general told them of the task that lay ahead,
BmAGD
To bring the people of the sky to heel.
[Chorus]
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
[Verse 2]
GAGA
Mud and sweat on polished leathe-e-e-er,
GADDsus4D
Warm rain seeping to the bone,
GAGA
They rode through the season's wet weathe-e-e-er,
GADDsus4D
Straining for a glimpse of the foe,
BmG
Hopeless battalion destined to die,
BmGGA
Broken by the benders of kings,
BmG
Vainglorious general and Victorian pride,
BmAGD
Would cost him and eight hundred men their lives.
[Chorus]
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
[Verse 3]
GAGA
They came to the side of the mounta-a-a-ain,
GADDsus4D
Scouts rode out to spy the land,
GAGA
Even as the realm's soldiers lay resti-i-i-ing,
GADDsus4D
Mageba's forces were soon at hand,
BmG
And by the evening the vultures were wheeling,
BmGGA
Above the ruins where the fallen lay,
BmG
An ancient song as old as the ashes,
BmAGD
Echoed as Mageba's warriors marched away.
[Chorus]
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
[Chorus]
N.C.
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
N.C.
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
N.C.
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
N.C.
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
[Chorus]
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
[Outro]
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
AAsus4AG
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza,
BmAAsus4A
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?
(Fade Out)