This 1977 song was set to the music of “It’s a long way to Tipperary”. The song both expressed, in humorous form, the physical distance to Mukumbura from other parts of the country while also celebrating the contributions made by different branches of the Rhodesian armed forces to the Rhodesian Bush War.
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I know this song is already very widespread across RU-vid but i felt that the other lyric videos of this song weren't very high quality, so i made my own. And no, this is not a repost, dunno why that guy said so but i made this video from the ground up and this is the first time i released it.
Lyrics:
It's a long way to Mukumbura
It's a long way to jol
It's a long way from your hometown
But you can have yourselves a ball
With your muckers
Goodbye Bulawayo, tot siens Cecil Square
It's a long, long way to Mukumbura And we're going up there to stir
It's a long way to JOC Inyanga
It's a long way, ek se
It's a long way from Umtali
But it's wide tar all the way
Well, nearly
Goodbye to the Cecil
Hello the Mont Claire
It's a long, long way to JOC Inyanga
And the trout is biting there
It's a long way to Kariba
It's a long way to run
It's a long way from Makuti
But you can do it on your THUMB
With your FN
We love our Sergeant Major, when he drives an RL
When he takes it on those bush roads, It's just like going to
Heaven, I'm in Heaven
It's a long way to Llewelyn
It's a long way on the train
We could gooi it to the North Pole, But they'd build one just the same with the parade square
We all dig the starpies, haircuts and the graze
And if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase
For the Mortars
Action, disarm look again
They're so loud
For the Blues
Changa to echo base
Homing call required over
Chopper come home, chopper come home
For the Instructors
One check your rear aperture
Two move your working force to the rear
For the Greys
You fool private the tails at the back
For Signals
Hello two this is one over
Hello, one this is one too are you one two?
For the Medics
This water cannot be drunk until it has been passed by the M.O
For the Cops
No madam that’s not what we use V-cars for
You want the pest control vehicle
For the RWS
Ah, Becky, I can't make up my mind
Whether to wear the green or blue eyeshadow
To weapons training today
For INTAF
Now you chaps are expected to be keeping this keep
As it should be kept
The keep does not keep itself
For the Engineers
That’s not a flocculent
You idiot that’s the soap powder
It's a long way to Mukumbura
It's a long way to jol
It's a long way from your home town
But you can have yourselves a ball
With your muckers
Goodbye Bulawayo, tot siens Cecil Square
It's a long, long way to Mukumbura
And we're going up there to stir
Stir
Stir
Ensure
Stir
Ensure
Stir
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Stir
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8 май 2021
