Gimme Hope Jo'anna

 Ouça o cantor Eddy Grant em Gimme Hope Jo'anna (1988).

Gimme Hope Jo'anna é uma canção britânica antiapartheid escrita e lançada originalmente pelo cantor, compositor e multi-instrumentista guianês-britânico Eddy Grant em 1988, durante a era do apartheid na África do Sul. A canção foi proibida pelo governo sul-africano quando foi lançada, mas mesmo assim foi amplamente tocada lá. Alcançou o 7º lugar na top de singles do Reino Unido, tornando-se o primeiro sucesso de Grant no top 10 britânico em cinco anos.

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