Juluka - Digging For Some Words lyrics

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Wanderers and nomads have gone to see their chieftains<br />

Will this be the end of the rain and the birds?<br />

Who can send an emissary to speak to the seasons?<br />

For the ravens and the crows already soak up the skies...<br />

I'm digging for some words beneath the stones in Zimbabwe<br />

I'm searching for a drum song in the jungles of Zaire<br />

I'm groping for the blood-moon in the mountains of Malawi<br />

Looking for the Lion of Ethiopia...<br />

The setting dusk is darkened by the bark of the baboon<br />

The frogs and the owls no longer call to the moon<br />

The warlords have gathered, blue smoke hiss from teeth of chrome<br />

And the baobab lies trembling in the boiling blood-loam<br />

The fireplace is broken and the grinding stone too<br />

Its million pieces flung across the plains of Africa<br />

Each dusty fragment a seed from which grows<br />

The memory of a debt that only you and I will know<br />

Seven seasoned soldiers have been summoned from Saigon<br />

A craven walkie talkie puts their bloodshot armor on<br />

Some drink beer milk, some drink kinky-kola<br />

Sheep dogs live in Outeniqua<br />

Gun dogs in Angola<br />

Flames lick the corners of each hungry horseman's smile<br />

They have locusts in their scabbards and deserts in their eyes<br />

Passing through the air they leave a sea of fetid rumors<br />

As they ride across the skyline on a secret trail of lies<br />

I found some words beneath a stone in Zimbabwe<br />

I heard a distant drum song in the jungles of Zaire<br />

The blood-moon spoke of war in the mountains of Malawi<br />

But I never found the Lion of Ethiopia