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Banaha

Round, said to be Congolese, supposedly a soldier's song in the Tshiluba (Luba-Kasai) language, featured in the Missa Luba (Congolese-style mass written in the 1950s).

LYRICS:
(1) Si si si si dolada, yaku sine ladu banaha
(2) Banaha, banaha, yaku sine ladu banaha
(3) Ha, banaha, yaku sine ladu banaha 

SCORE:
(from http://lokoleyacongo.files.wordpress.com)
banaha.pdf
File Size: 50 kb
File Type: pdf
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YOUTUBE:
The video in the left is not 100% the same rhythm we sing. The one in the middle is less stylish but follows the rhythm in the score accurately. The one on the right comes from the Missa Luba mass and is a bit different.
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