Joey Don't Do It Lyrics - Johnny Clegg & Savuka

She rises for work early each day 

She's tough and she's straight and her words never ricochet 

The wounds that you gave her she wears like a bouquet 

It's crazy, joey, how she loves you come what may 

And though you have gone she defends you like a lion 

She says you're just going through some kind of phase 

Strange talk of deserts, hong kong and red wine 

Of kissing the moon in some beat up old plane 

Chorus 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

Don't walk out into the night 

Mus' ukuthatha ngamawala awuthula-nje 

(don't fly off the handle, take it easy) 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

Love can give you wings to fly 

Mus' ukuthatha ngamawala awuthula-nje 

(don't fly off the handle, take it easy) 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

Awuthulanje 

She loves the dreamers, but not the schemers 

She loves the contradictions, but not the lies 

She says every home ever built was built on tears 

And she's not scared of crying but she is of wasted years 

So she'll wait like a ship anchored beyond the harbour 

And if there is no place to dock she'll head for the sea 

And I don't know if you know but there's nothing much harder 

Than facing a part of yourself which you know might have been 

Chorus 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

Don't walk out into the night 

Mus' ukuthatha ngamawala awuthula-nje 

(don't fly off the handle, take it easy) 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

It'll be different in the morning light 

Mus' ukuthatha ngamawala awuthula-nje 

(don't fly off the handle, take it easy) 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

Awuthulanje 

Just look around 

Do you know where you're going 

Such a sad seed I see you sowing 

There is nothing to be found in the wind that's blowing 

Just an empty sound, joey don't do it 

Chorus 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

Don't walk out into the night 

Mus' ukuthatha ngamawala awuthula-nje 

(don't fly off the handle, take it easy) 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

Love can give you wings to fly 

Mus' ukuthatha ngamawala awuthula-nje 

(don't fly off the handle, take it easy) 

Joe-joe-joey don't do it 

Awuthula-nje