A Lomwe song, from the early days of the Lugella Company, which in 1915 opened a Sisal plantation in north-central Mozambique. The word ‘machila’ means cloth, and became by extension the word for the hammock in which Europeans used to be carried.
You weep, you sleep stiffly, when you are old!
O — o,
You weep, you sleep stiffly, when you are old!
O — o,
