I heard this song yesterday in the Supermarket in Italy, after lots of years..... It brought immediately nice memories from my youth back to my mind. Then I realized that I never knew what the song was really about.... well here I am. Thanks everybody for all explainations ❤ thanks Eddie Grant for this powerful song .
This song was played at the end of rugby game today between South Africa and New Zealand. How could anyone back then imagine that one day, 30 years later, South Africans would sing and dance together to this iconic anti apartheid song. Tears can be turned into dancing!
I'm a South African, I grew up with this song. I haven't heard it for such a long time. Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant is the only song you still hear on radio, sometimes. Thanks for a bit nostalgia. 🇿🇦
kiril1.....I'm not giving any credit to the apartheid regime whatsoever but life was very different for all South Africans back then. SA is on the brink of white genocide, apart from the average 56 murders daily countrywide, there is at least 3 farm attacks weekly where complete families are brutally murdered. If you compare the total of people murdered of over a period of 48 years under aparheid and the total of people murdered over a 26 year period under a democratic Republic the figures will shock you. 3567 deaths vs. 560 000+ deaths.
The black man is better than me. Why must I go back to Europe? I'm an African, born in Africa. Unless if you are a Khoisan, why don't you go back to North Africa?
Despite what the MSM says, there's no segregation or oppression of blacks/minorities in the west. The big oppression/racism now is Neo Marxist/Identity politics racism against white people.
This is sooo sooo soooooo deep. You want to understand, sing, cry , dance, clap and cry altogether with this song. Those who ‘ve experienced it will feel and understand and they will know. The morning will come.
''I wanna know if you're blind Jo Anna If you wanna hear the sound of drum Can't you see that the tide is turning oh Don't make me wait till' the morning come'' Those words always send chills up and down my spine in regards to what this song was trying to tell the world. These sentiments are true for all of us no matter what we live with.
"She even knows how to swing opinion In every magazine and the journals For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes They got a good explanation" That line is sadly so true today for many in the world
We listened to this in South Africa as non-white South Africans. We danced to it, we stomped our feet in the dust, in the dancehalls. We felt it in our hearts that the tides would turn, soon. Within a year the talks were on the news and in Feb 1990, Mandela was out of prison and the ANC was unbanned. Viva! Madiba! Viva!
Now corrupt parties and organizations after mandela and the apartheid destroying step by step there own very good economy and chasing down white landowners mostly narratives from England,Dutch,Germany who work hard for there loved SA out the land. Bravo ! 😉
@@Ka_Daver chocking on propaganda, voetsak that ANC they ruined ZA they stole my families money left them in the dust and having to move out to elsewhere
Somehow I've never realized the lyrics. The song just sounds so joyful you don't even think it could be about such a serious matter. Now when I know it is an even more outstanding work of art!
same here! i’ve listened to this song for YEARS. as i’m not an english native-speaker and this is such a fun-sounding song i’ve never bothered to hear the lyrics. today i was listening to it and decided to hear the lyrics and BOOM! this song just became even better
I thought it was about something in Caribbean or Cuba, when I first heard it about a week ago in the radio. I didn't know much about the message of this song, until I search it in the net.
@@losmilosmi1917 You do know that people like you with perpetual hatred give me more and more thoughts that would make Hitler look like a little baby. This because it seems the only way to destroy this perpetual hatred is by destroying anyone who hates a group of people because of history, rather than evaluating the current relationships and find a way to move on to a peaceful future.
I come from Eastern Europe; this song should have nothing to do with me at all, yet I first heard this as a child. Now, living in England, I find the message of this song so very relevant in this day and age.
So you say. The way you call it one would think you were born and bred in SA. Come to SA and see what communism is all about seeing that you grew up in eastern Europe
What I love about this song is that it is a pointed and serious message about the horrors of Apartheid and yet by clothing it in an upbeat and catchy tune it will grab the attention of more people, and it did.
I was a young teenager when Electric Avenue was used for a TV advert, I loved it and asked my Mum about the song. That weekend she took me to buy albums, a big mix of different stuff she thought I might like. Of course one of those CD’s was Eddy’s. The journey home was the first time I heard “Gimme Hope Jo’anna”. I was too young to know about apartheid, this song made me read up about it. This song had a huge impact on me at a young age. Hearing someone in an upbeat song longing for hope, not for himself but for a nation, made me very aware of how we treat each other over perceived differences. To take such a brutally, disgustingly unfair topic and explain it in such a brilliant, upbeat way… Eddy Grant is a legend. Absolute legend.
I love how crystal clear the lyrics are. Just straight in your face, like this is how it is and deal with it and do something about it. I still have high hopes that one day we all don't look at colors but look at the person. The only thing we all have in common is that we are all different. Embrace the differences and live by eachother happiness instead by eachother mysery. Love is the answer.
I’ve said it before, this is one of the most underrated but seriously talented men out there, people just need to open their ears and listen. Thanks Eddie
Hearing this song as a kid who didn't care for the lyrics of any song and to hear it now and actually pay attention to what this song is about was a complete 360. It's a song about suffering, bravery and honor. I salute those who lost so much during the reign of the european countries, mine included. The african continent is not a playground. I can only be thankful that during the war to keep the portuguese colonies my grandfathers were on the right side of the fight. I'm grateful that my family morals have always been based on seeing every human as human, no matter who they are
In a South African white. I have heard this song in 1993 performed by the Jazz Pioneers in an open air show. I was immediately attracted to the vitality, the joyfulness of the music. Nobody could tell me anything about the song. Now I understand, why. South Africa does face huge difficulties. I wish God gives wisdom to my compatriots to get out well from these problematic times.
Lots of opportunities opened up and it shows: the average person is more intelligent, educated, has more skills. Politics is a problem, but this seems to be a problem all over the world. We have huge problems, like with electricity supply and so on. I think if the present ruling class does not improve his act, will be chased away.
@@thunder_claw The "love song" part isn't explicit and can be drowned out by the protest message but it's there. He "personifies" the capital of Johannesburg into a sort of "loose female" and the "song" is basically trying to get her to change her ways so that he can "love" her, hence the "give me hope" and "don't let me wait till morning" lyrics. It's there but it's very easily overlooked with the extremely explicit protest message in front. It is a very interesting artistic touch.
@@danielc2701 Right you are Daniel! I used to work in RSA in the Seventies of last century, and I know what Eddy is singing about. After my return to Germany I joined the Anti Apartheid Movement here ihn my home country, and now all South Africans are free. It will always be my former home from home, and I wish everybody there only the every best!!!
Give me hope Joanna! Oh how we danced to this song as young children in South Africa, not even knowing that we were being represented in the world, nor did we know the full lyrics😂 Thank you Mr Grant🙏🏽
I think it came out back in 87 or 88 I was aged 7 and used to dance on it almost every weekend, without really weighing the power and meaning of the lyrics certainly it was my innocence it was 13 years later that I realized the true meaning of the words, a true true hidden gem❤️❤️💎💎
It was a South African freedom song at the end of apartheid, we all sang it with the fist, it was banned and we still played it. For us it always carried meaning
Me too. Heard this song as a kid and liked it but wasn't old enough to understand the concept. My heart almost stopped when I revisited the song and it's lyrics as an adult and it was a very sobering moment. The last verse gets me every time and hits me hard: I wanna know if you're blind Johanna If you wanna hear the sound of drum Can't you see that the tide is turning oh.. Don't make me wait till' the morning come
@@karindickinson7993 vielen Dank, ja ich kann gut ueber mich selbst lachen. Finde ich auch wichtig, viele Menschen trauen sich das nicht, weil sie denken, dass es als Schwäche angesehen wird. Ich bin auch ein lustiger und humorvoller Kerl 😃
I heard this song first time as a kid, now it's 2024 and I'm happily married. Can never forget the rhythm and joyful beats of this song and just today this song came to my mind, I searched for it and here I'm!!!😅😂 To whoever is reading this comment I just want to say don't loose hope in life, whatever happens keep going on to the next morning! Stay strong people, Love from India!❤🙏😌
As we in June 2024 on the eve of the National Government of Unity where the ANC, DA and IFP together move to take South Africa our country into a New Era …. May we once more be blessed …. In times of deep uncertainties over the last 30 years
I had never heard this song until now it is upbeat but it speaks about a painful time in Africa. I listened to the song after hearing "Gimme Hope Kamala" I am not sure how I feel now about that song
I use to jam to this as a kid nor understanding the true meaning of the song. Then my pops told me it was a protest song. Till I grew up and became concious and told my self this is as good as the best of the protest songs can be. Dirrect and frontal. Thank you uncle Eddy Grant for the good works.
Having heard this song in my childhood I never followed the lyrics Now it casually popped up and I played it, and paid attention Christ they are dark and political, it's a genius concealment of a serious message
Yeah right.....peaceful and so clever, tell me where do you see black, white or brown in the rainbow? Wake up and smell the coffee, he was a terrorist and a murderer who murdered many black AND white people with his cronies. The only difference is there was "war" in SA then as there is a war at any given time in the world, brush up on world history you might get a few surprises. Everybody hates adolf hitler for the holocaust but how many black and white men, women and children did the british murdered in the Boer war, not to mention all the animals they murdered with their scorched earth policy in SA then
I remember feasting when Mandela was elected first South-african black President, back in 1994. I had been so anxious ever since Botha's resignations that we would see a horrible bath of blood in the change. But Joanna listened to you, Eddie !!
I just dance to the beat of these summer music when I was a child , now that I read the lyrics , how deep is the music reflecting Africa and it's people struggling for there rights
Freedom song...my favourite of all Eddie Grant music, followed by " hold on it" Gimme hope Joana must be played on every of my day😅 ...love the music so much. From a grateful heart from Nigeria
I'm a Samoan living in NZ but when this great hit song land our shores, we were all behind the Black African struggle for Freedom. And this song has been playing in every Bus in Sàmoa as a support for the natives African against the racism. PEACE!!!!
This song gives me the greatest inspiration, hope, and strength to pull everything in the right mood and direction ... It kind of reminds me of Nelson Mandela - The greatest glory in life, lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall ... Thank you very much teachers of the world for the respect and peace towards each other ...
I still remember loving this song, when I was small, because I didn‘t understand English and it sounded so happy. Then my English got better, I understood the meaning, and since then, I love it even more!
Initially this song was banned in South Africa 1989. At one of my Disco Gigs @ The Butterworth Hotel (Durban Central) cops raided the club and confiscated my only bootleg Cassette version of this hit. Totally gutted. Got off with a warning. Awesome memories of club scene in Durban. Thanks for sharing
@@Mama_Bear524 😂😂😂 This is a great song yes but totally wrong in so many ways. I grew up in SA and unfortunately when idiot zuma and his cronies took over 95% of our beautiful country went for a ball of(no that is not ice cream). No infrastructure was spared. Electricity, transport, basically everything was destroyed. I will probably be called a racist now which is fine! However, has anybody ever thought about what Nelson Mandela would have thought about the trash heap his successors left in their wake of destruction? Not even close to the legacy he tried to leave behind after he passed away. HE WILL BE ASHAMED OF HOW THE anc OF TODAY DESTROYED SA. Ask any of 50+ South African, black, white, coulored and even Indian how they feel about SA now. Fortunately the younger generation got a very rude awakening and hopefully things will change in SA however it will not be in the next 20 to 30 years, not before SA is turned into ruins by brainless idiots. Where is democracy now?? Democracy died when low life thieves by the likes of s#*thead zuma stole our country blind and worse of it all, no one in the world stopped him, instead the world started the BS of black lives matter. WRONG....ALL LIVES MATTER.....ALL LIFE MATTERS!!
63... from Italy ... now I understand it.. but a lot of people don't know English and don't understand, just love a nice sound in disco. SA was so far from us. But in '90 the italian mass media every day talks about Apathaid and we know very well this situation
Never fade away from my favorites hit songs. Thank you Eddy. Grant 👍👍 for the great music you makes everyone dancing with hope of Peace and Unity. Cheers from NZ.
Ali Ayranci was my best friend at school , i never forget . Listen to this kind of music makes me thinking on him and the time we had so much fun . I never forget him .
Well oh my goodness. I've only just learnt now. Aged 43 the real meaning of this song. Always thought was about a lady called Joanna. Still love it though.
Well Jo'anna she runs a country She runs in Durban and the Transvaal She makes a few of her people happy, oh She don't care about the rest at all She's got a system they call apartheid It keeps a brother in a subjection But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see How everybody could a live as one Gimme hope, Jo'anna Hope, Jo'anna Gimme hope, Jo'anna 'Fore the morning come Gimme hope, Jo'anna Hope, Jo'anna Hope before the morning come I hear she make all the golden money To buy new weapons, any shape of guns While every mother in black Soweto fears The killing of another son Sneakin' across all the neighbors' borders Now and again having little fun She doesn't care if the fun and games she play Is dangerous to everyone She's got supporters in high up places Who turn their heads to the city sun Jo'anna give them the fancy money Oh to tempt anyone who'd come She even knows how to swing opinion In every magazine and the journals For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes They got a good explanation Even the preacher who works for Jesus The Archbishop who's a peaceful man Together say that the freedom fighters Will overcome the very strong I want to know if you're blind Jo'anna If you want to hear the sound of drums Can't you see that the tide is turning Oh don't make me wait till the morning come
The power of a good beat + catchy vocals..He knew this was the best way to spread his message. Amazing!
🫶🏻🫶🏻💯💯💯💥💥💥💫💫💫💫
Yup no violence
Bob Marley style!! They were great at what they did... Spread love n awareness...
The song is catchy l like it
@@admondnathan9434 Oh there absolutely was violence, it just didn't happen until they'd won...
I heard this song yesterday in the Supermarket in Italy, after lots of years..... It brought immediately nice memories from my youth back to my mind. Then I realized that I never knew what the song was really about.... well here I am. Thanks everybody for all explainations ❤ thanks Eddie Grant for this powerful song .
This song was played at the end of rugby game today between South Africa and New Zealand. How could anyone back then imagine that one day, 30 years later, South Africans would sing and dance together to this iconic anti apartheid song. Tears can be turned into dancing!
How far we have come as a nation.
I know right!! So profound
I'm a South African, I grew up with this song. I haven't heard it for such a long time. Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant is the only song you still hear on radio, sometimes. Thanks for a bit nostalgia. 🇿🇦
Do you remember the apartheid regime? Is the life better for you today than was back then?
kiril1.....I'm not giving any credit to the apartheid regime whatsoever but life was very different for all South Africans back then. SA is on the brink of white genocide, apart from the average 56 murders daily countrywide, there is at least 3 farm attacks weekly where complete families are brutally murdered. If you compare the total of people murdered of over a period of 48 years under aparheid and the total of people murdered over a 26 year period under a democratic Republic the figures will shock you. 3567 deaths vs. 560 000+ deaths.
@@DuchalvanWyngaard Who's to blame?
Go back to Europe.
The black man is better than me. Why must I go back to Europe? I'm an African, born in Africa. Unless if you are a Khoisan, why don't you go back to North Africa?
This song is probably the most powerful and rousing and not only speaks for South Africa but anywhere oppression and segregation takes place today.
+1
I totally agree, great lyrics.
Despite what the MSM says, there's no segregation or oppression of blacks/minorities in the west. The big oppression/racism now is Neo Marxist/Identity politics racism against white people.
And it seems like America (amongst a few other places), might be where this song is the most relevant, now.
@@retrogamelover2012 Bullshit.
This is sooo sooo soooooo deep.
You want to understand, sing, cry , dance, clap and cry altogether with this song.
Those who ‘ve experienced it will feel and understand and they will know.
The morning will come.
''I wanna know if you're blind Jo Anna
If you wanna hear the sound of drum
Can't you see that the tide is turning oh
Don't make me wait till' the morning come''
Those words always send chills up and down my spine in regards to what this song was trying to tell the world. These sentiments are true for all of us no matter what we live with.
👏👏👏🎯
It gives me chills knowing this movement turned genocidal the moment they took power.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 ...It was genocidal during white rule. Don't be ignorant!
"She even knows how to swing opinion
In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes
They got a good explanation"
That line is sadly so true today for many in the world
We listened to this in South Africa as non-white South Africans. We danced to it, we stomped our feet in the dust, in the dancehalls. We felt it in our hearts that the tides would turn, soon. Within a year the talks were on the news and in Feb 1990, Mandela was out of prison and the ANC was unbanned. Viva! Madiba! Viva!
Now corrupt parties and organizations after mandela and the apartheid destroying step by step there own very good economy and chasing down white landowners mostly narratives from England,Dutch,Germany who work hard for there loved SA out the land.
Bravo ! 😉
The dream came true, South Africa is great now...
@@Ka_Daver And now they’ve kicked out the ANC. the circle of life
im glad you got freedom theres no room for tyranny in this world
@@Ka_Daver chocking on propaganda, voetsak that ANC they ruined ZA they stole my families money left them in the dust and having to move out to elsewhere
I'am brazilian and love African Continent!! Love From San Paulo Brazil South America!! God Bless Africa!! 🙏🙏🤝🤝❤❤❤Beautiful song
Somehow I've never realized the lyrics. The song just sounds so joyful you don't even think it could be about such a serious matter. Now when I know it is an even more outstanding work of art!
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so am I, it was just my fav song in the 80-ties, but now I like it even much much more. Thanks to Lord JESUS who just showed it again to me:)))
same here! i’ve listened to this song for YEARS. as i’m not an english native-speaker and this is such a fun-sounding song i’ve never bothered to hear the lyrics. today i was listening to it and decided to hear the lyrics and BOOM! this song just became even better
I thought it was about something in Caribbean or Cuba, when I first heard it about a week ago in the radio. I didn't know much about the message of this song, until I search it in the net.
Especially, I like this : hey hey at the last couplet
I am a "born-free" (1994) and this song makes me cry 30 years later.
Can you relate?
*Accidentally realizes true meaning of this song, reads up on South African history for hours, because of it*
What did u learn about our people?
Listen to David Rudder Banana death song and learn some more about the west Indies economics
@@tiktoklover5216 ippi
@@LogiForce86 I can't imagine how possibly afrikaners can be punished enough for all their nice treatment of blacks
@@losmilosmi1917 You do know that people like you with perpetual hatred give me more and more thoughts that would make Hitler look like a little baby. This because it seems the only way to destroy this perpetual hatred is by destroying anyone who hates a group of people because of history, rather than evaluating the current relationships and find a way to move on to a peaceful future.
Beautiful song of peace ❤ from an indigenous brother from Australia 🦘😘♥️
I woke up this morning with this song in my head. Kept wondering why it was in my head. Played it over and over again. Catchy song
HAHA WAY COOL AWESOME SONG 😃😃😃😃❤❤❤❤👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Same here.
I woke up with the song in my head.
That,s why I am here listening to it
In 2023 , still listening and feel still there are black soweto mothers worrying about their sons and yet Johanna to give them the hope😢
I remember as a child watching this in the 80s in Liberia on MTV. Didn’t understand it then just loved the beat and the colours. Great song.👏
Me too
I come from Eastern Europe; this song should have nothing to do with me at all, yet I first heard this as a child. Now, living in England, I find the message of this song so very relevant in this day and age.
So you say. The way you call it one would think you were born and bred in SA. Come to SA and see what communism is all about seeing that you grew up in eastern Europe
@@rudinieuwenhuis4700 Does everything have to be an idiological war, da***it?
@@rudinieuwenhuis4700 Wut?!?!??!!
@@olafweyer859 I don't know what thee heck they're on about......
God Bless Africa. Nkosi Sikeli Africa !
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What I love about this song is that it is a pointed and serious message about the horrors of Apartheid and yet by clothing it in an upbeat and catchy tune it will grab the attention of more people, and it did.
You definitely ain't from South Africa go check it out
@@anthonielegrange8688 lol good luck out there!
Yes. let Africa be pillaged by her own people :))
Total nonsense. You weren’t there, so keep your media precipitated comments to yourself.
Apartheid wasnt so horrible , it was just a system of segregation laws, which sucked
I was a young teenager when Electric Avenue was used for a TV advert, I loved it and asked my Mum about the song. That weekend she took me to buy albums, a big mix of different stuff she thought I might like. Of course one of those CD’s was Eddy’s. The journey home was the first time I heard “Gimme Hope Jo’anna”. I was too young to know about apartheid, this song made me read up about it. This song had a huge impact on me at a young age. Hearing someone in an upbeat song longing for hope, not for himself but for a nation, made me very aware of how we treat each other over perceived differences.
To take such a brutally, disgustingly unfair topic and explain it in such a brilliant, upbeat way… Eddy Grant is a legend. Absolute legend.
drinkable yogurt? Yop?
Even the preacher that works for Jesus.... The Archbishop is a peaceful man.... Rest well Desmond Tutu.
Eddy Grant: *makes a song about apartheid and people killed during gunfights with police*
People around the world: 💃💃💃
Lifted my mood completely one sunny day...was about 11/12 when my dear aunt passed...it made the day a bit better...
hi maria
I love how crystal clear the lyrics are. Just straight in your face, like this is how it is and deal with it and do something about it. I still have high hopes that one day we all don't look at colors but look at the person. The only thing we all have in common is that we are all different. Embrace the differences and live by eachother happiness instead by eachother mysery. Love is the answer.
Bless
Well said
I’ve said it before, this is one of the most underrated but seriously talented men out there, people just need to open their ears and listen. Thanks Eddie
It's Eddy thank you 🤣😉
Our hero for sure bra
He dont wanna dance lol
I can see your point, tell you the truth the only thing I've heard from him before this, was electric Avenue
The bob Marley of Africa
Still Love It. Greetings from Austria
Hearing this song as a kid who didn't care for the lyrics of any song and to hear it now and actually pay attention to what this song is about was a complete 360. It's a song about suffering, bravery and honor. I salute those who lost so much during the reign of the european countries, mine included. The african continent is not a playground. I can only be thankful that during the war to keep the portuguese colonies my grandfathers were on the right side of the fight. I'm grateful that my family morals have always been based on seeing every human as human, no matter who they are
But it's a complex hope
National anthem of Africa..Respect from Serbia
I Crne Gore 😊
I hercegovine💙
I Makedonija
I hrvatske💪❤
From Turkey, respects…
Always love ❤️ this song greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
You ever sing a song, be happy untill you realize you're not happy but have tears in your eyes.
Jjhh
One of the very best songs of the last century. A truly great entertainer ❤️
this tune sounds so happy 🎵 🌞
Came here for the great adaption "Give Me Hope Kamila"
Me too!
Love and blessings to the people of South Africa
AMEN
This dude is basically exposing the tyranny with a very happy beat 👍
From Philippine-This is the most ultimate ever created by most talented singer and writer.Eddy Grant.I really love this sounds.THANK U MR.GRANT
Electric avenue Eddie grant
Why did you have to mention the Philippines
@@steveboy7302 Maybe it's because that's where he's from and it proves what a loved song this was around the World.
In a South African white. I have heard this song in 1993 performed by the Jazz Pioneers in an open air show. I was immediately attracted to the vitality, the joyfulness of the music. Nobody could tell me anything about the song. Now I understand, why. South Africa does face huge difficulties. I wish God gives wisdom to my compatriots to get out well from these problematic times.
How's South Africa doing now? Is it more prosperous, safer, less corrupt, all-round a better country to live in for the average person?
Lots of opportunities opened up and it shows: the average person is more intelligent, educated, has more skills. Politics is a problem, but this seems to be a problem all over the world. We have huge problems, like with electricity supply and so on. I think if the present ruling class does not improve his act, will be chased away.
@@akoskiss786 Okay, that's good to hear.
@@akoskiss786 but this seems to be a problem all over the world....the only thing you said that is factual, the rest is a bunch of idiotic puke
@@akoskiss786I guess you're not in agriculture, huh?
Eddy you give me hope!
Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
I love how mild and yet how clear his protest message is. And how he manages to disguise the song as a love song.
...Okay, not to be disrespectful, but how is this in any way disguised as a love song? These lyrics are pretty damn explicit.
@@thunder_claw The "love song" part isn't explicit and can be drowned out by the protest message but it's there. He "personifies" the capital of Johannesburg into a sort of "loose female" and the "song" is basically trying to get her to change her ways so that he can "love" her, hence the "give me hope" and "don't let me wait till morning" lyrics. It's there but it's very easily overlooked with the extremely explicit protest message in front.
It is a very interesting artistic touch.
Steinbach1984 love is the ultimate protest and weapon we have against the evil we face. For real his lyrics are blinding....✊🏾
@@danielc2701 Oh my word, Thank you for the explanation, very interesting. It never dawned on me!
@@danielc2701 Right you are Daniel! I used to work in RSA in the Seventies of last century, and I know what Eddy is singing about. After my return to Germany I joined the Anti Apartheid Movement here ihn my home country, and now all South Africans are free. It will always be my former home from home, and I wish everybody there only the every best!!!
Give me hope Joanna!
Oh how we danced to this song as young children in South Africa, not even knowing that we were being represented in the world, nor did we know the full lyrics😂
Thank you Mr Grant🙏🏽
still brings tears to my eyes. after so many years... absolute genius
I’m all emotional too
South Africa is far worse than aparthied. Its the stark truth; thousands of blacks are killing each other each year by other tribal blacks.
Not an emotional song at all tho
@@Darwaxion? it certainly is, it may not be a sad sounding song but the message behind the lyrics is definitely enough to move people.
Powerful song , Gives me chills
This song puts over righteous anger without hatred, just with an appeal to reason.
@EdMcF1....you are obviously not a South African are you?
Can’t believe I never heard of this song till now, what a powerful song. Thank you for the post!
A classic banger that was so uplifting that let’s admit most of us just danced away to it than ever relating with it. Thank you Eddie! ❤️
I think it came out back in 87 or 88 I was aged 7 and used to dance on it almost every weekend, without really weighing the power and meaning of the lyrics certainly it was my innocence it was 13 years later that I realized the true meaning of the words, a true true hidden gem❤️❤️💎💎
Sooooooooooo true. I just danced to. And never knew the meaning
It was a South African freedom song at the end of apartheid, we all sang it with the fist, it was banned and we still played it. For us it always carried meaning
@@samwebb5122and this was 2 years before Mandela was released which is also hard.
@@samwebb5122 Yes the lyrics are a political message when the song came out.
Masterpiece by Eddy Grant fabulous song with a strong message attached to it
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i used to hear this song when i was still very young but didn't understand the lyrics and thought it was a love song heart touching
I heard that song many times. But don't understand the message. And this was 2 years before Mandela was released. So depressed back then.
Heard on the radio often as a kid but getting to know the lyric on this day brought tears to my eyes.
Me too. Heard this song as a kid and liked it but wasn't old enough to understand the concept. My heart almost stopped when I revisited the song and it's lyrics as an adult and it was a very sobering moment.
The last verse gets me every time and hits me hard:
I wanna know if you're blind Johanna
If you wanna hear the sound of drum
Can't you see that the tide is turning oh..
Don't make me wait till' the morning come
Welcome
I remember vibing and singing along to this song when I was a child not really knowing what the lyrics meant🇿🇦
I simply love this song n the beat and the lyrics etc etc❤
Don't forget to listen to the Marsh Family's parody of this 'Gimme Hope Kamala'
I love this song ❤️🌍
greetings from germany
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Ich liebe den Song auch, grüße aus Hamburg
@@karindickinson7993 vielen Dank, ja ich kann gut ueber mich selbst lachen. Finde ich auch wichtig, viele Menschen trauen sich das nicht, weil sie denken, dass es als Schwäche angesehen wird. Ich bin auch ein lustiger und humorvoller Kerl 😃
@@karindickinson7993 mich haktenauch viele für bekloppt, meine Frau auch! Mir aber egal. Ciao und alles Gute!!!
@@karindickinson7993 das ist sehr nett von Dir! Vielen Dank, ciao 😃
I heard this song first time as a kid, now it's 2024 and I'm happily married. Can never forget the rhythm and joyful beats of this song and just today this song came to my mind, I searched for it and here I'm!!!😅😂
To whoever is reading this comment I just want to say don't loose hope in life, whatever happens keep going on to the next morning! Stay strong people, Love from India!❤🙏😌
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Non ce ne frega un cazzo
The "Archbishop was a peaceful man". RIP Desmond Tutu 😢 Thank you Arch. Your freedom fight is over. Go well...
As we in June 2024 on the eve of the National Government of Unity where the ANC, DA and IFP together move to take South Africa our country into a New Era …. May we once more be blessed …. In times of deep uncertainties over the last 30 years
I had never heard this song until now it is upbeat but it speaks about a painful time in Africa. I listened to the song after hearing "Gimme Hope Kamala" I am not sure how I feel now about that song
My college day favourite when I was idealistic and well naive. Great song anyday
Swear to God I had never understood the meaning and actual lyrics of this song till today...this was a strong song..and all we did was dance to it...
This is a piece of art. This man knows he's music. Imagine having this guy a friend and performing at a function. Wow
Jo Anna = south african city of Johannesburg (for those like me who didn't get it in the first place)
Thanks for the info i never got it until today!!!
wow, thanks!
Thanks like I just needed that for school homework >~
Bbvg
Blimey it's that obvious but I never cottened onto it.
Thankyou Buddy.
eddy grant on of the greatest and most successful artist from the caribbean!!!!!!!
I use to jam to this as a kid nor understanding the true meaning of the song. Then my pops told me it was a protest song. Till I grew up and became concious and told my self this is as good as the best of the protest songs can be. Dirrect and frontal.
Thank you uncle Eddy Grant for the good works.
Something about this song is purely TIMELESS!! Someone bring back my childhood
Having heard this song in my childhood I never followed the lyrics
Now it casually popped up and I played it, and paid attention
Christ they are dark and political, it's a genius concealment of a serious message
His lyrics are not dark ,his lyrics shed light on the darkness of apartheid
Tq Eddy!
Greetings from Indonesia❤
RIP Desmond Tutu - the archibishop who’s a peaceful man.
Never forget ✊🏾
Yeah right.....peaceful and so clever, tell me where do you see black, white or brown in the rainbow? Wake up and smell the coffee, he was a terrorist and a murderer who murdered many black AND white people with his cronies. The only difference is there was "war" in SA then as there is a war at any given time in the world, brush up on world history you might get a few surprises. Everybody hates adolf hitler for the holocaust but how many black and white men, women and children did the british murdered in the Boer war, not to mention all the animals they murdered with their scorched earth policy in SA then
At least one road in Joburg was supposed to be named after this Hero
This man is still alive, sweet. Love!!
Final a great artist that once I find them they have died
wahaha
recognizable. It started with me as a kid with Roy Orbison 😂@@FinnB747
Born in 1988 here listening 2024
Sim ! Agora mesmo , amigo , aqui brasil ❤ que gingado maravilhoso
Birn in 91 here listening in 2024 👌👌🙏🙏
I was born in 1990 😀
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@@Amos_Quito I was 35 when I was dancing to this song in my holidays in Kenya. Can't forget that.
Was my favorite song when I was a kid 33 years ago. Became even better when I understood the lyrics.
Brilliant singer, songwriter and musician and best Anti Apartheid song ever! Lot of people didn’t get it back then - Thank you Eddy Grant
Powerful song. I merely danced to it as a boy. Now I understand better.
Happy birthday Eddy Grant.
Yes...2022 and this song still amazes me...I love the beat and the message resounds....Give me hope...Washy and Otta and Londy etc.
I'm from Jordan, and my daughter's name is Jowana. we send our best greetings to all the people of South Africa
I remember feasting when Mandela was elected first South-african black President, back in 1994. I had been so anxious ever since Botha's resignations that we would see a horrible bath of blood in the change. But Joanna listened to you, Eddie !!
🇬🇷♥️🇿🇦♥️ LOVE MUSIC AFRICAN FROM GREECE.
The double entendre with morning and mourning - powerful!
My first trip to London from the States. Spring 1990. This song was everywhere.
I just dance to the beat of these summer music when I was a child , now that I read the lyrics , how deep is the music reflecting Africa and it's people struggling for there rights
Right, i never knew the lyrics would be that deep or that it spoke of a serious time. Amazing!
Freedom song...my favourite of all Eddie Grant music, followed by " hold on it"
Gimme hope Joana must be played on every of my day😅 ...love the music so much.
From a grateful heart from Nigeria
This was randomly recommended to me and I'm so glad,i had totally
forgotten about this song,brings back memories
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I'm a Samoan living in NZ but when this great hit song land our shores, we were all behind the Black African struggle for Freedom.
And this song has been playing in every Bus in Sàmoa as a support for the natives African against the racism.
PEACE!!!!
With you all the way bro, peace on Earth, good will to all..
Love and peace to you and yours
The power of these oldies will live on for ages, it's just irresistible
Year 2020 and this song is still amazing
Of course Songs never gonna die, no Matter how old they are.
Io io
2022 now
It's a great tune in any year!
2022
Timeless classic song still fresh today..
yes
Because africa is still corrupted?
Yes, great song.
It certainly is Jason!
@@bogdanpostole7251 Yeah,,, same like India
This song gives me the greatest inspiration, hope, and strength to pull everything in the right mood and direction ...
It kind of reminds me of Nelson Mandela - The greatest glory in life, lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall ...
Thank you very much teachers of the world for the respect and peace towards each other ...
A timeless classic!
This is classic and still sounds good. Reminds me of the 80's.Great lyrics
Sure does
This song and Eddy.. Turned the tide on SA's prospects. Gimme hope South Africa... Sort it out...Please!
One of the most important and powerful songs ever written
I still remember loving this song, when I was small, because I didn‘t understand English and it sounded so happy. Then my English got better, I understood the meaning, and since then, I love it even more!
Initially this song was banned in South Africa 1989. At one of my Disco Gigs @ The Butterworth Hotel (Durban Central) cops raided the club and confiscated my only bootleg Cassette version of this hit. Totally gutted. Got off with a warning. Awesome memories of club scene in Durban. Thanks for sharing
I was in grade 2 when I heard this song, now I am 49 years, and still I LOVE IT
I was in grade 1. I’m 41 now. I had no idea it was about Johannesburg during apartheid until now. Omg.
@@Mama_Bear524 😂😂😂 This is a great song yes but totally wrong in so many ways. I grew up in SA and unfortunately when idiot zuma and his cronies took over 95% of our beautiful country went for a ball of(no that is not ice cream). No infrastructure was spared. Electricity, transport, basically everything was destroyed. I will probably be called a racist now which is fine! However, has anybody ever thought about what Nelson Mandela would have thought about the trash heap his successors left in their wake of destruction? Not even close to the legacy he tried to leave behind after he passed away. HE WILL BE ASHAMED OF HOW THE anc OF TODAY DESTROYED SA. Ask any of 50+ South African, black, white, coulored and even Indian how they feel about SA now. Fortunately the younger generation got a very rude awakening and hopefully things will change in SA however it will not be in the next 20 to 30 years, not before SA is turned into ruins by brainless idiots. Where is democracy now?? Democracy died when low life thieves by the likes of s#*thead zuma stole our country blind and worse of it all, no one in the world stopped him, instead the world started the BS of black lives matter. WRONG....ALL LIVES MATTER.....ALL LIFE MATTERS!!
58........🤣
37...heard it on old school radio 📻😂😂
63... from Italy ... now I understand it.. but a lot of people don't know English and don't understand, just love a nice sound in disco. SA was so far from us. But in '90 the italian mass media every day talks about Apathaid and we know very well this situation
Never fade away from my favorites hit songs.
Thank you Eddy. Grant 👍👍 for the great music you makes everyone dancing with hope of Peace and Unity. Cheers from NZ.
Ali Ayranci was my best friend at school , i never forget . Listen to this kind of music makes me thinking on him and the time we had so much fun . I never forget him .
Well oh my goodness. I've only just learnt now. Aged 43 the real meaning of this song. Always thought was about a lady called Joanna. Still love it though.
Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
I hear she make all the golden money
To buy new weapons, any shape of guns
While every mother in black Soweto fears
The killing of another son
Sneakin' across all the neighbors' borders
Now and again having little fun
She doesn't care if the fun and games she play
Is dangerous to everyone
She's got supporters in high up places
Who turn their heads to the city sun
Jo'anna give them the fancy money
Oh to tempt anyone who'd come
She even knows how to swing opinion
In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes
They got a good explanation
Even the preacher who works for Jesus
The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
Together say that the freedom fighters
Will overcome the very strong
I want to know if you're blind Jo'anna
If you want to hear the sound of drums
Can't you see that the tide is turning
Oh don't make me wait till the morning come
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Thanks 🙏 it is beautiful indeed😍
Thank you.
bravo, Georgi!
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Esta canción me trae muchos recuerdos de mi infancia puesto que eran tiempos de colegio.
Thank you RUclips recommendations. The first time you brought me joy
So great old songs 😊 ....
Now i convinced that older generations of musicians are great and genius 😊😍