I CANNOT STAY AT HOME

I cannot stay at home

For I am the village news reporter

I hop from house to house 

Collecting news and dishing out more 

If they have not heard it from me

Then it is no news

And while at it I save a meal

I cannot stay at home!

I cannot stay at home

For I was so close to finding out

The identity of the mysterious man 

That has dropped my neighbour's wife twice

Yet her husband is in the barracks 

I cannot condone unfaithfulness 

I cannot stay at home!

I cannot stay at home

Yet I had discovered Muriu's daughter is pregnant 

The girl at the university 

The village role model

The apple of her father's eye

If I stay at home

She might come out with a flat tummy 

After this ordeal is over

I cannot stay at home afande!

I cannot stay at home

For I have been seeing baba Ciru's car in the park

It is widely known he is rarely home

Since he got hooked up with the 'ho' in town.

I have been crouching behind their house at night 

Trying to detect any weird sounds 

To prove if  they still share a bed

The whole village is counting on me

I cannot stay at  home

I cannot stay at home

For I have to inform the villagers 

Of the fate that befell others like me

Who, however without a justified reason 

Couldn't stay the hell at home!!!