One Drop - Hector Pieterson lyrics
[One Drop - Hector Pieterson lyrics]
Hector Pieterson your death forever
Left a bloodstain
So we declare this a holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the
Streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air
June 1976 though a normal day of tension
Grew into something tragic
South Africa’s uprising in the
Township of Soweto home of 2 Nobel Prize
Winners Tutu and Mandela
"Cause a language is taught
Afrikaans in school
A system of apartheid to control and rule
They knew a foreign language would
Make test scores hurt
To keep the black man from
Doing more than service work i said
Hector Pieterson your death forever
Left a bloodstain
So we declare this a holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the
Streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air
The students got together to protest in peace
At the corner of Moema
Where it meets Vilakazi
Armed with a voice singing the Sotho anthem
Against guns and ammunition and
The violence you’d imagine
Police shot tear gas
Then them bullets would pass
Killing so many people
More than 500 would pass away
And you were only at the age of 13
The resistance is your memory
Hector Pieterson your death forever
Left a bloodstain
So we declare this a Holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the
Streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air
Left a bloodstain
So we declare this a holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the
Streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air
June 1976 though a normal day of tension
Grew into something tragic
South Africa’s uprising in the
Township of Soweto home of 2 Nobel Prize
Winners Tutu and Mandela
"Cause a language is taught
Afrikaans in school
A system of apartheid to control and rule
They knew a foreign language would
Make test scores hurt
To keep the black man from
Doing more than service work i said
Hector Pieterson your death forever
Left a bloodstain
So we declare this a holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the
Streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air
The students got together to protest in peace
At the corner of Moema
Where it meets Vilakazi
Armed with a voice singing the Sotho anthem
Against guns and ammunition and
The violence you’d imagine
Police shot tear gas
Then them bullets would pass
Killing so many people
More than 500 would pass away
And you were only at the age of 13
The resistance is your memory
Hector Pieterson your death forever
Left a bloodstain
So we declare this a Holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the
Streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air