As I was walking down the road
I met my brother with a heavy load
I said to him what have you seen
He said to me, "I have a dream"
In nineteen sixty, I thought I'd died
In Sharpeville's bloody town
But I got up and I walked on tall
Nobody's goin' to put me down
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
As I walked out along the way
I saw my sister bend and pray
I said to her why do you kneel
She said, "You don't know how I feel"
I had a little boy and a little girl
I loved to watch them grow
But they were butchered on the streets
In the blood of Soweto
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
It's '85 and I'm walking still
Across the Uitenhaage hill
Saw a crowd set off at the dawn of day
The soldiers said, "Don't come this way"
Then somebody threw a stone
As they walked up the track
A boy on a bike was the first to fall
With a bullet in his back
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
It's been a long, long hard road
Three hundred years since settlers strode
Into that Southern land
Now they rule with an iron hand
Low pay, no vote and passbook laws
Don't talk back, they say
But the hawks and the eagles will fly like doves
When the people rise one day
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves
Hawks and eagles fly like doves