Walked up to freedom
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He was growing up the hard way
Walked up to freedom
Always take the long view
End up in a triumph
Doughty energetic
It's leading from behind
A seed of a idea
Started bearing fruits
Victories in battles
Started decades ago
His style which derives
Hardwon discipline
(It was not easy)
Is it now
After all, oh-oh
They watching him, yeah
They watching him, na
It was not easy
After all, oh-oh
Surrounded by armed guards, yeah yeah
He was growing up, growing up, oh
Growing up the hard way
He was growing up, growing up, na
Growing up the hard way, grow
He was growing up, growing up, oh
Growing up the hard way
He was growing up, growing up, na
Growing up the hard way, oh
Any deadlock
Attempts to resolve it
Stirring arguments
Towards consensus
Believe in essential
The goodness of the human heart
Even though has spent
A lifetime suffering
Exchanged one form
A prison for another
The revolutionary prisoner became
Fame and power
(It was not easy)
Is it now
After oh-oh-oh, oh
They watching him, oh
They watching him, na
It was not easy
Na na na na na na
Surrounded by armed guards, ya ya
He was growing up, growing up
Growing up the hard way
He was growing up, growing up
Growing up the hard way
He was growing up, growing up, na
Growing up the hard way
He was growing up, growing up, na
Growing up the hard way
(Growing up, growing up)
His plans may yet fail and his hopes collapse
(Growing up, growing up)
But with his message of reconciliation and the euphoric support
(Growing up, growing up)
Of great majority of his countrymen
(Growing up, growing up)
He is clearly the most presidential man in South Africa
He was growing up, growing up
Growing up the hard way
He was growing up, growing up, na
Growing up the hard way
He was growing up, na, oh
Growing up the hard way
He was growing up, growing up, na
Growing up the hard way
Growing up, growing up, na
Growing up the hard way
27 hard years, oh
27 na na oh oh
Growing up, growing up (Growing up, growing up)
Growing up (Growing up hard way)
Growing up, he was
Growing up, growing up (Growing up, growing up)
Growing up the hard way