Chorus:   Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza   Obani bengathinta amabhubesi?    All along the river chelmsford's army lay asleep   Come to crush the children of mageba   Come to exact the realm's price for peace   And in the morning as they saddled up to ride   Their eyes shone with the fire and the steel   The general told them of the task that lay ahead   To bring the people of the sky to heel   Chorus   Mud and sweat on polished leather   Warm rain seeping to the bone   They rode through the season's wet weather   Straining for a glimpse of the foe   Hopeless battalion destined to die   Broken by the benders of kings   Vainglorious general and victorian pride   Would cost him and eight hundred men their lives   Chorus   They came to the side of the mountain   Scouts rode out to spy the land   Even as the realm's soldiers lay resting   Mageba's forces were at hand   And by the evening the vultures were wheeling   Above the ruins where the fallen lay   An ancient song as old as the ashes   Echoed as mageba's warriors marched away   Chorus