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“[Ensemble hommes] / From now we’re old brothers, from now we’re old brothers”

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ÿ - Prologue : 2 Mai 1826

Tayc

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“[Intro] / Mammy, on est ex aequo”

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NDOLO

Tayc

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Mwaka Mwaka

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“Mwaka mwaka”

Title and refrain — Duala for "year by year" / "year after year." Reduplication ("mwaka mwaka") functions as intensification in Sawa languages, similar to French "petit à petit." Lets Tayc carry a Cameroonian phrasing into an otherwise French-language ballad.