Never lose the spirit of dance

Never lose the spirit of dance

You can chain a man's hands but you can never chain his soul.

Never lose the spirit of dance,

We danced in the space of time since.

In those slave plantations we danced,

In the heat wave of apartheid we danced,

Through our independence struggles, we danced 

We will dance

We are dancing 

We are dance,

We dance at wedding parties, we dance at birthday get-togethers,

We dance at graduation ceremonies, we dance even at funerals as we celebrate the lives of those that once were

We dance at the sound of life being born 


I smile at the skills of an African child,

As she turns her waist round and round at a young age,

As the boy moves around the house making all manner of moves

We dance to the sound of the ocean waters and to the raindrops 

Under the sunshine and under the moon 

We dance under the shadows of a cloudy day

And under the promise of the rainbow 

Fine-tunes forming from within 

The ancient songs of the old 

It came like it was always with us 

What really causes us to dance I begin to wonder,

It is the beat?

Is it the music?


And here came a flood of answers from where I believe lies the spirit of our African ancestors

Listen, my child, 

It’s not only the body that moves 

It is the soul 

It is your inheritance 

Your heritage 

your heart trying to speak 

It is music in motion 

The element of pride, 

Of hope in the face of defeat 

And of victory, we’ve won 

It can never be killed, it can never be quenched.

Rhythm passed on from generation to generation.

The art wrapped up in the movements

As the body gives in to the beat of freedom 

It brightens up a heart 

It makes the soul merry.

Who can help but radiantly smile when they see these waves, these moves,

We must indeed conserve this heritage,

Our children must come and find the rhythm,

In the same way we did


Whether are belittled or kept out of the picture,

We must make sure to capture the spirit of dance as it moves through our souls.

All am trying to say is Afro-beats keep the spirit of dance beating 

Never lose the spirit of dance

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