Orchestra Baobab: Coumba (7 mins 42 secs) Album: Pirate's Choice World Circuit WCD 063
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Balla et ses Balladins: Moi, je suis découragé (5 mins 39 secs) Album: Objectif Perfection Popular African Music PAM/ADC 302
:: Track 3
Jacques Brel: Ne me quitte pas (3 mins 49 secs) Album: Johnny Rondo Duol Polygram France 845 001-2
BACKGROUND
Three songs of suffering love from Francophonie on the theme of 'Going, going gone!'
Coumba promised the sky, but now she's gone... "It's you who told me that the sky would be always blue... but now you've gone, forgetting all that was said..."
Moi, je suis découragé because she's left me emotionally but not yet physically... ... you spend so much time with your 'uncles'... 'cousins'... "Me, I'm at my wit's end..."
Jacques Brel is offering among an awful lot else... " ...pearls of rain from a land where it never rains..." in his effort to stop his love quitting. Don't leave me! Don't leave me! Don't leave me!