Gimme Hope Jo'anna

This is the fist song we have listened in this year,
Artist : Eddy Grant
Tittle : Gimme Hope Jo'anna




Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one

(Chorus:)
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come...
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Something about Eddy Grant and the song:

Eddy Grant was born in Plaisane, Guyana.
When he was still very young his parents emigrated to the UK,When he was in London he started to listen Rock and other styles of music (When he lived in Plaisane he only listened Indocaribean music).
When he was 17 he make his first band "The Equals"
His later single, "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" (1990),was a song about Apartheid in that country, the song was made during the apartheid regime ("joannaa" stands for Johannesburg, South Africa)



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