Impi
Chorus
Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyez
Obani bengathinta amabhubesi
All along the river Chelmsford's army lay aslee
Come to crush the Children of Mageb
Come to exact the Realm's price for peac
And in the morning as they saddled up to rid
Their eyes shone with the fire and the stee
The General told them of the task that lay ahea
To bring the People of the Sky to hee
Choru
Mud and sweat on polished leathe
Warm rain seeping to the bon
They rode through the season's wet weathe
Straining for a glimpse of the fo
Hopeless battalion destined to di
Broken by the Benders of King
Vainglorious General and Victorian prid
Would cost him and eight hundred men their live
Choru
They came to the side of the mountai
Scouts rode out to spy the lan
Even as the Realm's soldiers lay restin
Mageba's forces were at han
And by the evening the vultures were wheelin
Above the ruins where the fallen la
An ancient song as old as the ashe
Echoed as Mageba's warriors marched awa
Chorus
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