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Come, Bring Your Burdens to God (Woza nomthwalo wakho)

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Translator: Martine Stemerick

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Translator: Barbara Clark

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Translator: Mairi Munro

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First Line: Come, bring your burdens to God (Woza nomthwalo wakho)
Title: Come, Bring Your Burdens to God (Woza nomthwalo wakho)
Translator: Martine Stemerick (2008)
Translator: Barbara Clark (2008)
Translator: Mairi Munro (2008)
Source: South African
Publication Date: 2013
Copyright: English trans. © 2008 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.)

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A great strength of music from southeastern Africa is that it usually emerges from communal life, and in
singing such songs we unite our sung prayers with those of the people who created them. This one is based on the singing of the Mooiplaas congregation in South Africa.

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