I'm so glad
I'm glad to have many friends
Black and white, Indians and Coloureds
National, international

I'm so glad
I'm glad to have many friends
Black and white, Indians and Coloureds
National, international

I'm proud
I'm proud, proud to be an African
African like you

I'm proud
I'm proud, proud to be an African
African like you

I am happy
I am happy, happy to be black
Black like you

I am happy
I am happy, happy to be black
Black like you

We-we-we
We were fearful
That our voices
Will be transferred
Into the machines
And we will no longer be able to see ourselves (What!?)
What was even worse, was that
We would continue to sing in the machines long after our death

I'm proud
I'm proud, proud to be an African
African like you

That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black is beautiful
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black is beautiful
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Bath' ibal' elimnyama lihlobis' elimhloph' (Black is beautiful)
Bath' ibal' elimnyama lihlobis' izinto zonke (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black (Black is beautiful)
And I say (Black is beautiful)
Rainbow nation (Black is beautiful)
And I say (Black is beautiful)
Rainbow nation (Black is beautiful)
Bath' ibal' elimnyama lihlobis' im'bala yonke (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black is beautiful (Black is beautiful)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black is beautiful
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black is beautiful (That's why they say)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black is beautiful (That's why they say)
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black is beautiful
That's why they say (Black is beautiful)
Black (Black is beautiful)

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Writer(s): JOSEPH SHABALALA