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He saw a BBC documentary featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo and wanted to record with them, arranging to meet their lead singer Joseph Shabalala when he went to South Africa to start Graceland. They gave him some albums which he listened to each night during his stay. As he didn't want to go back to South Africa for political reasons he wrote something upon his return to America. He send the demo of himself on piano singing "homeless, we are homeless. Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake" to Joseph, saying he could change whatever he wanted. He carried on the lyrics in Zulu, a reworking of a. traditional Zulu wedding song. Somebody say is taken from an existing Ladysmith song, but I don't know which. I think the ihi ihi part comes from a further song of theirs which Paul vaguely recalled and thought it would provide the song with the part he felt was missing
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