Too Late for Mama

Too late

Too late for mama

Ten kilometres barefooted in the bush

Started raining on the way to fetch some water

Poor woman had a baby on her back

Was struck by lightning on her way, to fetch some water

She tried hiding under a tree to save her child

Poor woman had no place to go

Lightning caught her with her baby on her back

Friends, relatives ran for her

But it was too late

Too late for mama, too late

Too late for mama

Husband came running to the scene again

Poor man held his dead wife in his arms

Eyes full of tears and not believing in nightmare

Knelt down and prayed for this, was a painful loss

Too late

Too late for mama

She's gone

It was too late

Too late

She tried hiding under the tree to save her child

Poor woman had no place to go

Lightning caught her with her baby on her back

Friends, relatives ran for her

But it was too late

Too late

Too late for mama

Mama with a little baby

She's gone

It was too late

Oh

Yeah yeah

Oh

Oh, yeah

Yeah yeah

(Too late)

Too late for mama

But it was too late