Boot Dance chords by Harry Belafonte

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If anyone here this evening
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were unfortunate enough
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to have to visit South Africa today,
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they would find in the large cities like
Johannesburg,
small boys in tattered clothing
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standing on the street corners,
singing and dancing
and playing penny whistles.
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Aesthetically, this is a very attractive
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thing to see and to listen to.
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so cially and spiritually
it's rather depressing
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because small boys are there
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for the purpose of begging for
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fa vors
from the more well -to -do
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citizens
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and the tourists one can also find
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grown men
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many of whom have been
taken from their tribes
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and put to work in the mines.
When they get out they come flooding
into the cities looking for work
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and they band together
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in groups of players singers and dancers
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and they compete with the same small boys
for the same small favors.
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The song of the
dance we're about to do
illustrates such a scene
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in a South African city.
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It's called the South African miners boot dance.

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