The Cape Frontier - John Edmond.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : John Edmond
[00:05.272]The Cape Frontier, the Cape Frontier, she is so long and wide,
[00:10.074]with Xhosa warriors raiding us from over the other side;
[00:15.117]we’ve been fighting wars down here, in all they have been nine,
[00:20.177]from the days of the Dutch East-Indian men through the British time.
[00:24.716]
[00:26.579]Sailors of old who grounded the Cape, called it the Cape of Storms,
[00:31.346]land lovers called it the Cape of Good Hope, others the Cape of Wars;
[00:36.398]these wars have been given numbers and names, if I had my way I would vow
[00:41.457]they wouldn’t be numbered one to nine, they’d be called the wars of the cow.
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[00:47.561]For so many people lived in this place: settlers, Khoe and San;
[00:52.342]they had cattle to feed so they had a need to take some casual land,
[00:57.658]they gave it new names like Albany, Victoria and Adelaide,
[01:02.448]so wars were fought for many years, totalling seventy eight.
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[01:07.785]The Cape Frontier, the Cape Frontier, she is so long and wide,
[01:12.816]with Xhosa warriors raiding us from over the other side;
[01:17.605]we’ve been fighting wars down here, in all they have been nine,
[01:22.672]from the days of the Dutch East-Indian men through the British time.
[01:26.380]
[01:29.050]The first four wars they were caused by the Xhosas and the Brits and the Boers,
[01:34.099]they started in 1779 fighting Xhosas for 32 years,
[01:39.145]but the Xhosas started the fifth war, with bravery standing their grounds,
[01:44.218]and Lombi nearly beat the Brits at the Battle of Grahamstown.
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[01:50.332]The sixth war happened when twelve thousand forces crossed the Fish Frontier,
[01:55.362]and Chief Tyali and Maqoma made settlers panic with fear;
[02:00.423]Burnshill saw the seventh war when Maqoma defeated John Hare,
[02:05.206]at the Gwangqa British cavalry killed five hundred Xhosas there.
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[02:10.521]The Cape Frontier, the Cape Frontier, she is so long and wide,
[02:15.313]with Xhosa warriors raiding us from over the other side;
[02:20.377]we’ve been fighting wars down here, in all they have been nine,
[02:25.168]from the days of the Dutch East-Indian men through the British time.
[02:29.168]
[02:31.558]Sandile’s relative then stole an axe from an old Fort Beaufort store,
[02:36.335]so the War of the Axe was the name that was given to the eighth Cape Frontier War,
[02:41.380]Chief Sandile he put up a fight with skirmishes here and there,
[02:46.171]and that was the ninth and last of the wars of the Cape Frontier.
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[02:53.067]The Cape Frontier, the Cape Frontier, she is so long and wide,
[02:58.150]with Xhosa warriors raiding us from over the other side;
[03:06.591]we’ve been fighting wars down here, in all they have been nine,
[03:07.922]from the days of the Dutch East-Indian men through the British time.