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Went up the hill today to see some friends in K-town
The family of a friend who left three years ago
Don't know how far I've gone
But I can change the K's into miles along the road
From Atakpamé to Kessibo
Past the signs to Soto, coffee now no cocoa
I sing a little song, I'm my own radio
In Lom Na Va a young man still smiles and waves his hand
Where I stopped for rain three years ago
And everybody knows me now (chorus)
The white guy in the Lycée town
Who's been here for a long, long while
Twenty miles to the east
A young girl dressed for a Sunday feast
Calls to me by name and then she smiles
Two bare telephone wires climb up the hill along my side
I've got a wife and child, everybody knows
I see those wires leave behind every town along the line
The grapevine runs along the road
Family says "Woezo, lo," with sodabi and tchuk to go
And fufu pounded by a young woman
And I see it can't be true that it never rains in Kougniohou
The corn is high I see the water's runnin'
(repeat chorus)
Back on the road, it's wagasi from a young Fulani girl
She's trying to speak French to me
Just before Dzogbegan I see a young black cobra on the road
He spreads his hood to say hello to me
Back home I greet my wife and child
Everything's all right, we can see the signs but we'll go the way we go
Don't know how far I've gone but I can change the K's into miles along the
road
From Atakpamé to Kessibo
Don't know how far I've gone but I can change the K's into miles along the
road
From Atakpamé to Kessibo
