This wiki aims to provide an archive of Frank Leepa’s songs. I hope many will help grow this archive — officially dubbed, “Frank Lyrics“!

For the longest time, I have resisted undertaking this project because I have been known to fudge a line or two of most songs. The resistance is over…I will fudge lines and hope to be duly corrected.

Now or Never

Heyi oena Afrika
Khale o lutse hae
Tsamaea o eo ipatlela tsasa bophelo
Tsoha o iketsetse.

Vuka baba, vuka
Life has been passing you by
Follow your star, it’s now or never
Hayi, you’ve got to make it better

O lutse o phuthile matsoho
Afrika, hayi hale!
O re o shebile lintho tsa mahala
You gonna wait forever!

O phutile matsoho,
O shebile banna ha ba sebetsa,
We ma!

Sekunjalo

Don’t cry my little sister

Mother I have to go
Father I do really want to be here
But I just can’t take it no more

Everyday humiliation
Our lives are destroyed
We need to get back our place on the throne
That’s where we belong

Kunjalo, sekunjalo
Hayi kunzima!
Kunjalo, sekunjalo
Hayi!

Let me tell you what we are gonna do
Listen carefully to what I say
We’re gonna change this life
Change it all around …hayi
With defensive guts …determination
Conditions in my control to make a break
We are gonna take it back
Take it all back

I want to hear you sing..hayi

hmmmmmmmmmmm…

Pray it
Pray it one more time

Listen sister please wipe off the tears
Mother listen please I have go
Won’t you tell father I’ll be gone long
Ain’t what you do, is how you do it
Ain’t what you say, is how you say it
Won’t you pass the word
Pass it all around

We are the leaders
No need to be afraid
Batho bana ba re tlolisa khati!
Ain’t bailing…
You might just need to put out the fire
It’s up to you
up to me to make a change

Hayi hayi hayi
Hayi hayi hayi halala
Hayi hayi hayi
Hayi hayi hayi halala
Njalo, hayi hayi
Kunjalo, sekunjalo
Hayi hayi hayi
Hayi hayi hayi halala

Hayi hayi hayi halala

Greed

That’s a lie
I see it in your eyes
You can go to hell
And I really don’t care
I don’t need your lies any more

Go away
Get out of my face
Hai go oooon!

You say: please may I forget
How can I forget, when you robbed me so?
You took my freedom
Now you want my soul
Go away, get out of my face
Hayiii go oooon!

The other day you want to make me scared
Set the police man upon my tail
You are not man enough to face me
So I disagree with your policy
Hayii you’re wrong indeed
heleleee

Please, please stay away from me
Can’t you see the light is gone already?
Am I supposed to listen?
Am supposed to smile?
While the jackal wound my life
He set my fate
Applaud, applaud, applaud?!

That’s alright your house is very nice
What makes you think that I don’t want to own
A school for my children
Diamonds for the wife
You make me sick with your vanity
Hayii you are wrong indeed

You say please may I forget
How can I forget, when you robbed me so?
You took my freedom
Now you want my soul
Go away, get out of my face
Hayiii go oooon

Chesa!!!

Se ka nkhathatsa ngoana monna
Se ka nts’oenya
Se ka nna ntsunya-tsunya
O sekeleme

Oa ntsunya-tsunya
Oa ntena

Se ka nkhathatsa ngoana monna
Se ka nts’oenya
Se ka nna ntsunya-tsunya
O sekeleme

Oa ntsunya-tsunya
Oa ntena

Se ka nkhathatsa ngoana monna
Se ka nts’oenya
Se ka nna ntsunya-tsunya
O sekeleme

[Itse ke ntse ke re ke etetse Bophirima-tsatsi
Ka be se ke utloa lioeleseng ka motho enoa hao
Sekitiri sa motho

Ke ne ke o joetse
Maoba mona…
ke khalana le eena a ts’oere nama
Nama ea sebete]