CHORUS: Put on your walking shoes now / and follow our voices / We are going into the veld / Ah, the quiet! Now this is my idea of a church. / Tread slowly now / time moves much more slowly out here in the Eastern Cape, there's no need to rush. / We're going backwards in time / to a small house on the outskirts of Alice / a little old town named after the Queen of England’s daughter /We haven’t gotten around to changing the name yet /But here is the house of our young Silumko, his mother, his uncle and his two sisters / still haunted by the presence of their recently departed father / whose body arrived in a box from Johannesburg only weeks before / along with a yellow envelope containing a sheath of papers with words like Accident / Eligible /Compensation.