Let's Start Lyrics - Fela Kuti
Soundtrack: Beautiful Game
Let's Start Lyrics
Let's Start Song Lyrics
We're gonna start our live recording right now
We gonna play for you our first tune tonight
It's gonna be about four tunes
And the first tune is called
O l'oun t'awa se n'yara
Je k'abere
Now, which means...
Let's start what we have come into the room to do
(Fela chuckles)
Right on
Here goes...
One, two, three
Ehn, ehn, eh, oh, oh
O l'oun t'awa se ni'yara o o
Je k'abere, ehn, ehn, eh
Ma s'oju binti binti si mi o o
Je k'abere, ehn, eh, eh
Ma s'oju mi o seri si mi o o
Je k'abere
Oya o o
Je k'abere
Oya o o
Je k'abere
Oya o o
Je k'abere
Oya o
Eh, oh, ehn
Bo ara o o, bo ara o o
Bo ara o o, bo ara o o
Oya o o oya o
Oya o o o
Oya o o oya o
Oya o o o
Bo ara o o, bo ara o o
Bo ara o, o bo ara o o
Eh
O l'oun t'awa se ni'yara o o
Je k'abere, ehn, ehn
Ma s'oju mi o seri si mi o o
Je k'abere
Oya o o
Je k'abere
Oya o o
Je k'abere
Oya o o
Bo ara o o, bo ara o o
Bo ara o o, bo ara o o
Bo ara o o, bo ara o o
Bo ara o o, bo ara o o
Oya o o oya o
Oya o o o
Oya o o oya o
Oya o o o
Bo ara o o, bo'ra o o
Oya o o oya o
Oya o o o
Eh, eh, ehn, ehn, ehn, ehn, eh
O l'oun t'awa se ni'yara o o
Je k'abere, ehn, ehn, ehn, eh
Oya o o
Je k'abere
Oya o o
Je k'abere
Ehn, ehn ehn je k'abere
Ose
Ehn, bo ara
Ehn, ehn, ehn oya o
Je k'abere
Ehn, ehn, ehn ose
Ehn, ma bo
Bo'ra o
Ehn, ose ose
Oya o o
Ehn, ehn
Oya o o o
Je k'abere
Oh oh
Oya o
Oya o o
Je k'abere
Oya o o o
Je k'abere
O ya o o o
Je k'abere
Thank you
Song Facts:
- Genre: Afrobeat
- Featured Artists: None
- Lyricists: Fela Kuti
- Composers: Fela Kuti
- Soundtrack: Featured in the soundtrack of "Beautiful Game."
Annotations and Meaning:
Fela Kuti lets you enter the realm of Afrobeat with infectious rhythms and brilliant melodies of "Let's Start." It was recorded live, carrying the spontaneity that is meant for expression in the usual communal manner of performance. The charismatic and musically-innovative Fela Kuti lures the audience into the recording of this bandleader who, in turn, always acts as a host to a guest at a party.
The title of the song and the reiterated phrase in its chorus—"Let's start what we have come into the room to do"—both exhort action, literally and metaphorically, as in taking up arms and starting the fight. Literally, it is the sign for the commencement of a musical performance. It implies openness in a metaphorical way to the social and political issues that often rear their heads within Kuti's music, although this track is, at its most, concerned with the very act of making music.
The documentation follows lines of the Yoruba phrases like "O l'oun t'awa se ni'yara o o, Je k'abere", which means "That which we are about to do, let it start," in an enhancement of a theme of initiation and beginning. The song was less in the words than the experience it afforded: the communal pleasure of music and rhythm that a gargantuan amount of Kuti's output included.
The repetitive lines like "Oya o o, Je k'abere" and "Bo ara o o, bo ara o o" (Move your body) involve and carry a live, participative atmosphere for the listener, which largely emphasizes movement and dancing, important in the genre of Afrobeat music.
Moreover, the organization of the song to repeat a series of calls and responses from several voices and instruments—repeats adhered to strictly within each section of the song—displays a further element of the traditional call and response of African music, a form that Fela takes from banality by dint of inserting modern sounds and present political meaning, if a bit hushed in this tune.
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