Vaya Con Dios - Ilia lyrics

Gone is the man

Who loved his land

More than day

If his heart had to leave

His soul was to stay

Hear them calling

From the mountains

Calling from the plains

Hear the wind

Through the leaves

Singing lonely refrains

Banza banza banza banza ixiámi

Ixiámi muá n’gola

N’golo banza N’golo banza oh kima

Uá n’guivila n’go mueniomo

Ni ji pangue já kuteka

Kuilatata uá mudié zé-zé

Mukonda diá n’zó

Ilia Ilia

Ilia uai-é

Uai-é- uai-é

Ilia uai-é

Kalunga n’gumba uá mambata

Ilia uai-é

Uai-é- uai-é

Ilia uai-é

Kalunga n’gumba uá mambata

Uai-é- uai-é

Uai-é- uai-é

Pray for the man

Who left his land

Aching for better days

A man who’s heart ‘s

Bound to bleed

For the ones who remain

Uá n’guivila n’go mueniomo

A mu tele oh n’do

Muloji mala kua muxima

Kua mu jia

Muene u diene

Mu ixié iá muxima kifussa

Ilia Ilia

Ilia uai-é

Uai-é- uai-é

Ilia uai-é

Kalunga n’gumba uá mambata

Ilia uai-é

Uai-é- uai-é

Ilia uai-é

Kalunga n’gumba uá mambata

Uai-é- uai-é

Uai-é- uai-é

Ilia Ilia Ilia

The land is calling out your name

Ilia Ilia Ilia

Hear them calling out your name

Ilia

Uai-é, uai-é

Uai-é uai-é

(c) Dani Klein-Bonga/Traditional

arranged by Thierry Plas & Jean-Pol Van Ham

Published by Africa Nostra-Play First!-Tell it like it is-Magnet records