Oh Uganda! May God uphold you
In the cusp of
His forgiving hand
For thee is archaic
in thy reasoning,
Thy functions
wax temperamental
Once upon a time
long forgotten now
We lay our
future in thy constricting hand
United, Free-
Promises tossed
around carelessly
Soon abandoned
In the dusts of
history
For liberty
Brought to you
by the Twenty Seven guns
Came in Limited
Edition
Soon forgotten
They said,
Together we'll
always stand
Such a lie,
Rather, together
they've always stood
Oh Uganda! The
land of Freedom
Hope, Faith and
Matsiko
Beautiful names
for beautiful people
Our love and
labour we give
In dilapidated
labour wards
And with
neighbours all
Lamenting the
state of nation we live
At our country's
call
We give it all
again
In peace and
friendship we'll live
Hopefully
Oh
Uganda! The land that feeds us
On a stable diet
of rubber bullets, tear gas and
Chokefuls of
dust
By sun and
fertile soil nothing is grown
But our
reticence.
For our own dear
land,
We'll always
stand
Apart and a part
of a multi tribal, multi-racial crowd
Not yet there,
and not yet beyond saving
The Pearl of
Africa's Crown
Lies hidden deep
in our hearts
