Drink the Zambezi Water Songtext
von John Edmond

You know that I am not a mad-dog, boy!
And you know that I am no Englishman.
But the other day I made a big mistake;
Went out in the African midday sun.
So I go down to the river and I′m drinking on my knees.
And old man sees me and this is what he says to me.
"Drink the Zambezi water, you're never gonna be the same,
You′re gonna have the big Zambezi river flowin throw your veins.
Drink the Zambezi water, it does something to your brain,
'Cause every time you go away you wanna come back again."
And so I went off on my travels, boy!
And I went wandering away from home.
Far away from the big Zambezi river, boy!
Far away from the land where I was born.
So I dream about that river every day and every night
And I'm cravin′ for that water. Yeah! the old man, he was right.
"Drink the Zambezi water, you′re never gonna be the same,
You're gonna have the big Zambezi river flowin throw your veins.
Even if they sent you into exile off to Spain,
Like an old bad penny you′ll be turning up again.


Drink the Zambezi water, it does something to your brain,
'Cause every time you go away you wanna come back again."
"Drink the Zambezi water, you′re never gonna be the same,
You're gonna have the big Zambezi river flowin throw your veins.
Drink the Zambezi water, it does something to your brain,
′Cause every time you go away you wanna come back again."
If they sent you to Australia to a penitentiary,
Like a boomerang you will be coming back you see.
"Drink the Zambezi water, you're never gonna be the same,
You're gonna have the big Zambezi river flowin throw your veins.
Drink the Zambezi water, it does something to your brain,
′Cause every time you go away you wanna come back again."
"Drink the Zambezi water, you′re never gonna be the same,
You're gonna have the big Zambezi river flowin throw your veins.
Drink the Zambezi water, it does something to your brain,
′Cause every time you go away you wanna come back again."
"Drink the Zambezi water, you're never gonna be the same,
You′re gonna have the big Zambezi river flowin throw your veins.
Drink the Zambezi water, it does something to your brain,
'Cause every time you go away you wanna come back again."