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Kutakapopambazuka

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1. Majaribu ni mengi yanayotujilia.
Bali Mungu anajua yanapotujilia.
Hima atatuongoza mpaka atuitapo.
Tutaelewa vema tufikapo.

Itikio:
Kutakapopambazuka;
Wateule wakusanyikapo.
Tutahadithia ushindi wetu;
Tutaelewa vema tufikapo.

2. Mipango yaadimika, nasi twakufamoyo.
Twapotea gizani mioyo ikiwa mizito.
Bali tukiyafuata maneno yake Bwana,
Tutaelewa vema tufikapo.

3. Majaribu na mitego iliyojificha.
Nayo hutunasa ghafula tusipotarajia.
Basi, twajiuliza, kwani twajaribiwa?
Tutaelewa vema tufikapo.

Source: Nyimbo za Imani Yetu #305

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Author: Charles Albert Tindley

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Translator: M. G. Mutsoli

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Alterer: B. B. McKinney

Pseudonyms-- Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin) Otto Nellen Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh) ----- Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942. McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Wor… Go to person page >

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First Line: Majaribu ni mengi yanayotujilia
Title: Kutakapopambazuka
English Title: Trials dark on every hand, and we cannot understand
Author: Charles Albert Tindley
Translator: M. G. Mutsoli
Alterer: B. B. McKinney
Source: Translation based on B. B. McKinney's the alteration of Tindley's original hymn.
Language: Swahili
Refrain First Line: Kutakapopambazuka
Copyright: Tr. © M. G. Mutsoli
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