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- Muzorewi's Daughter
Muzorewi's Daughter
Lyrics
Get that spot, put it in the pot for me (2)
Cos I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I was Muzorewi's daughter
I've been in the pot too long
Too hot in the pot too long
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
Muzorewi's daughter
African Corps, luv (3)
Gentle laws, luv
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
Left wing hot properties (4)
Out of the closets, and she
Runs Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
The trees are reeds with evil seeds for me
Cos' I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
Africa Corps, love
Gentle laws, love
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
[I blow a wall] love
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm too long in the pot
I'm too long in the mouth
I'm too long in the pot
I'm too long in the nips
I'm too long in the tits
I'm too long in the mitts
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
I'm Muzorewi's daughter
Muzorewi's daughter
Muzorewi's daughter
Notes
1. Although spelled "Muzorewi," here it's pronounced more like "Muzoweri." In any case, it's about Abel T. Muzorewa (pronounced muzz--o-ray-wah), a Methodist bishop who, for a few months in 1979, served as prime minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, a transitional entity between Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. His party was electorally defeated in 1980; he subsequently ran against his successor, Robert Mugabe, in the presidential election of 1996, garnering less than 5% of the vote. The lyrics were largely written by Kay Carroll, the Fall's manager at the time, it seems; according to Carroll: "I hated him. He was so white, but he was black: he was playing Uncle Tom. This was like a first impression, a naive viewpoint. If you're Muzorewi's Daughter life's a bit of a lie, isn't it? Everything she'll see is like, potentially a threat."
Apparently Muzorewi did have at least one daughter; Andy sent me a link to an article about her (her husband's girlfriend was accused of hiring a hit man to kill her!).
The following annotation is reproduced in the 2021 anthology, Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (edited by Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley) on p.67, under "Preparatory notes for various songs, 1978-80":
"For all our lads who died in the Boer War."
The song begins with what sounds like a faux-native American drum beat, reminiscent of Hank Williams' "Kaw-Liga" or Bill Monroe's "Cheyenne." I don't have a lot of insight into many of the lyrical details that follow.
2. Jay P suggests this refers to a pool ball, which could be spotted, and then knocked into the pot...
3. The Africa Korps, also known in English as the German Africa Corps, was the German force in Africa during World War II.
Dan: "However, it may be a reference to East German interventions in Africa around 1979 and afterwards, somewhat supplanting the Cubans there. There are newspaper articles and other commentary which refers to 'a new Afrika Korps' around the time, so it's possible the reference is to that."
The East Germans at the time were aiding the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), a far-left party headed by Joshua Nkomo. Nkomo and the ZAPU were briefly aligned with Muzorewa and his party (the United African National Council, or UANC) when the latter took power, although were subsequently in opposition, so Dan's conjecture seems likely. See note 4 below.
4. Cian submits: "I think the "Left-Wing hot properties" line is referring to Mugabe's revolution which was quasi-socialist and seized a lot of property, particularly farms, from white settlers."
In any case, the line is hard to parse. This form of the lyric comes from a handwritten lyric sheet reproduced in Excavate (see note 1). However, "she" suggests that perhaps it should be the singular "Left-wing hot property's out of the closet, and she..." which suggests the titular daughter is working, wittingly or not, for an intellligence agency. On the other hand, if "she" is a new, unnamed factor, then perhaps Muzoweri/Muzowera's daughter is a "Left-wing hot property" among other, unnamed persons or, finally, maybe "she" is one of several "Left-wing hot properties."
So, it is possible that Muzowera's daughter was aiding (in the song) Nkomo and the left-wing ZAPU (see note 4 above).
Comments (36)
KC/MES could, of course, mean "daughter" in a wider sense, in the same that people talk of a whole generation as being "Thatcher's Children".
Dan
I always heard it as "I was Muzorewi's daughter", fwiw.
http://nehandaradio.com/2017/05/09/woman-hires-hitman-kill-muzorewas-daughter/
Thanks to "Andy"...
Even the Guardian obituary says he did:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/12/bishop-abel-muzorewa
re comment #13, I've had a look in the Daily Mail, Guardian and the Times, and have not found anything linking Charity Muzorewa and Prince Charles.
Evil seeds etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappaccini's_Daughter
Here in this song, but also in Mess of My, which only has one studio recording - from the 6 December 1978 Peel Session. Mess of My is the earlier song.
This is the line in context in Mess of My:
Compare that with the line in context here:
Left wing hot properties
Out of the closets sent she
Alongside Muzorewi's Daughter is the following annotation:
It has:
"The trees are reeds with evil seeds for me"
not "wreathed" as per amendment here.
These lines:
Are rendered as:
"Luv" = "love" still.
The Afrika Korps was the German army in Africa in WW2. However, it may be a reference to East German interventions in Africa around 1979 and afterwards, somewhat supplanting the Cubans there. There are newspaper articles and other commentary which refers to "a new Afrika Korps" around the time, so it's possible the reference is to that.
See for example:
"A New Afrika Korps?" by Melvin Croan, The Washington Quarterly, 3 (1), pp.21-37, 1980.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01636608009477418
See also this San Francisco Examiner article from 20 August 1979 (borrowed from the UK Daily Telegraph):
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74706520/afrikakorps/
And then there's these lines:
"Left wing hot properties
Out of the closets and sheet
Arouse Muzorewi's daughter"
This should be:
"Left wing hot properties [the lyric sheet has "come", but I don't hear this]
Out of the closets and she
Runs Muzorewi's daughter"
In other words, it's an extended "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.... RUNS! -ah / Muzorewi's daughter etc"
On paper it looks like this:
"Left-wing hot properties come out of the closets
and she RUNS Muzorewi's Daughter"
The song is copyrighted on the lyric sheet as "Smith/Carroll 1979"
"The Dreams of the Witch House" by Lovecraft include this character, according to wiki:
Joseph Mazurewich, a religious fanatic in the Witch House whose praying disturbs Gilman (the main character)
In light of this I think it unlikely that the earlier reference is about pool! And also, Pot is a verb in pool, not a noun, so it wouldn't make sense! You 'pot' a ball in to a 'pocket'.