ease my spirit ease my soul please free my hands from this barren soil ease my mother ease my child earth and sky be reconciled ease my spirit ease my soul please free my hands from this barren soil ease my mother ease my child earth and sky be reconciled rain rain rain rain rain rain weave my mother weave my child weave your baskets of rushes wild weave my mother weave my child weave your baskets of rushes wild out of heat under sun comes the hunger to everyone famines teeth famines claw on the sands of africa rain rain rain rain rain rain weave my mother weave my child weave your baskets of rushes wild weave my mother weave my child weave your baskets of rushes wild rain rain rain rain rain rain rain