Mashine ya Chato (Remix)
A song made by Seb Malunde 🇹🇿
Mashine ya Chato (Remix)
A song made by Seb Malunde 🇹🇿
(Mambo vipi... eeh baba!)
Yeah, Tanzania remembers...
To the giants who laid to rest.
We wipe our tears, but we stand strong.
(Safi! Twende!)
The year began with tears upon the soil,
Taking away the giants of our daily toil.
On the seventeenth of January, the darkness hit my home,
My beloved father, Pastory Malunde, left us all alone.
Just one month later, February seventeen would cry,
Maalim Seif of Zanzibar waved his last goodbye.
Then March the seventeenth, the nation lost its core,
The Bulldozer, John Pombe Magufuli, was no more.
Three months of sorrow, three heroes laid to rest,
God called them home because He loves the best.
Wabheja sana nkoi! Mashine ya Chato!
You built the nation, you fought the battle!
From the capital of Dodoma to the lights of the grid,
We will never forget all the great things you did.
Oh, Pastory Malunde, Maalim Seif, and JPM,
Tanzania remembers you, again and again.
(Eeh baba! Kali!)
You took the government and moved it to the core,
Dar es Salaam to Dodoma, a capital forevermore.
You looked into the darkness and said "Let there be light,"
Bringing the Rufiji River to power up the night.
The twenty-one hundred megawatts of the Nyerere Dam,
Is fully built today, serving every child and man.
You didn't just dream it, you put it in our hands,
An independent nation standing proud on its own lands.
Wabheja sana nkoi! Mashine ya Chato!
You built the nation, you fought the battle!
From the capital of Dodoma to the lights of the grid,
We will never forget all the great things you did.
Oh, Pastory Malunde, Maalim Seif, and JPM,
Tanzania remembers you, again and again.
Air Tanzania was down to just a single plane,
In three short years, you washed away the shame!
Twelve birds in the sky, flying proud, flying new,
From the Bombardier Q400 to the Dreamliner blue.
Taking our flag from local skies to international flights,
To Mumbai and China, soaring up to new heights.
You laid down the tracks, the electrified SGR,
Connecting Dar to Mwanza, traveling fast and far.
Mega bus terminals rising up from the ground,
In Mwanza, Dodoma, and Dar es Salaam town.
When the world locked down and the markets grew cold,
You stood up for the poor, courageous and bold.
You refused to lock us in, you kept the markets free,
So the street vendor and the farmer could feed their family.
We prayed, we survived, our economy stayed strong,
You proved the doubters and the critics all wrong.
A shield for the weak, a leader for the small,
You stood by the citizens through the worst of it all.
Wabheja sana nkoi! Mashine ya Chato!
You built the nation, you fought the battle!
From the capital of Dodoma to the lights of the grid,
We will never forget all the great things you did.
Oh, Pastory Malunde, Maalim Seif, and JPM,
Tanzania remembers you, again and again.
(Bongo! Safi!)
Rest in peace, Baba Pastory Malunde, my guiding light.
Rest in peace, Maalim Seif, Zanzibar's brightest sight.
Rest in peace, John Pombe Magufuli, the ultimate machine.
The greatest heroes Tanganyika and Zanzibar have seen.
Wabheja sana...
Mashiiiiiine ya Chato!
(Fade out with traditional Sukuma drumming and soft acoustic guitar)
