E Ji Mu Ofor: #EjiMuOfor I Am Blameless ( My New Song Coming Out On Stores From 12th October)

People might think I am daft pouring out songs in this Corona time without calculations.

No, am not nuts! I really don't care. I have too many songs in the que, I just want my life's work out there at least documented, even if in the clouds!

I am not singing for food, but it will be sweet to get some reward for the sweat of my youthful days.

Here is the lyrics to the IGBO song.

My friend and Producer who played and produced the song, Smyl UFUOMA Ebah believes this song will endear me to my grassroot. 

I wrote it, didn't I? Sure, I love my IGBO race, but I also love for everyone to understand what am singing about.

So, I have my IGBO lyrics script followed by the translation into English. Mark you, I was grately assisted by Google Translate to derive this beautiful translation. I merely edited the atimes laughable Google translation.

Keep your eyes on the road with this. The song is already being processed by the stores.

If you miss my subsequent update just search "eji mu ofor by windie-storm ohimiri" on Google and you will be sure to get a store link to stream or download from.

Here goes:

E Ji Mu Ofor

(Shabudubaydah! Oooooooo)

A cho ghi mu nsogbu o

A chokwa ghi m’ekene

N’ebe nna ‘galu onwem n’iloo ee

I si mu iya t’afukwa:

 

   E ji mu ofor o   

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o!                    2ce

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji kwa lu ngi ofor o!

 

I magh’ ebe nsi abia e

I magh’ etu nsi adaghari

Oke na a t’azu m’e lee ehe

O gini ka nmere gi?  (ooh yea!)

 

Chorus

(Shabudubaybah!)

Ihe obuna bu nkem’ o yee!

I si n’o nya kacha gi

I gbuchie ihu mu, I gbuchie azum’ lee eh!

I si n’o ngi na chi mu oo! Heehey!

 

   E ji mu ofor o      

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o!       (Take me back, take me back, take me back there)   

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji kwa lu ngi ofor o!    (Onye y’chetalum’ ife nmere ya eee)

   E ji mu ofor o   

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o!               (Na ngo na nbana, onwer’ onye nmere ife obuna)

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji kwa lu ngi ofor o!           (Aka mu d’ocha n’ enuwa a ee)

   E ji mu ofor o   

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o!                  (Ndu mu du ka nmiri, onye g’ aju mee?)

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji kwa lu ngi ofor o!        (E nwer’ om echuche ojoo ‘buna ee!)

   E ji mu ofor o                      (ooooooohouo)

   E ji mu ofor o                       (Shabudubaydah!)

   E ji mu ofor o!                    (Oooohohoouoooo)

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji mu ofor o

   E ji kwa lu ngi ofor o!

 

 The TranslationTo English:

E Ji Mu Ofor (I Am Blameless)

(Shabudubaydah! Oooooooo)

I don't want any trouble
I also do not want your salutations

Going along on the road just minding myself
You said I’ve done the unthinkable!

I am blameless
I am blameless
I am blameless! 2ce
I am blameless
I am blameless
I am standing blameless to you!

You do not know where I am coming from
You do not know how I have been falling about
O rat nibbling on my fish,
What did I do to you? (ooh yea!)

Chorus

(Shabudubaybah!)

Everything that belongs to me

You say that is just what you want

You block my front, you block my rear

You are a real spit fire! Heehey!

I am blameless
I am blameless
I am blameless! (Take me back, take me back, take me back there)
I am blameless
I am blameless
I am standing blameless to you! (Who can remind me what I have done against them?)
I am blameless
I am blameless
I am blameless! (On mountains and valleys, there is no one I have done wrong.)
I am blameless
I am blameless
I am standing blameless to you! (My hands are clean in this world)
I am blameless
I am blameless
I am bameless! (My life is like water, who can refuse me?)
I am blameless
I am blameless
I am standing blameless to you! (I have no idea, not of any guilt!)
E ji mu ofor o (ooooooohouo)
E ji mu ofor o (Shabudubaydah!)
I am blameless! (Oooohohoouoooo)
I am blameless
I am blameless
I am standing blameless to you!

 

If We Must Die : When Making It To The Next Day Is A Great Blessing

It is beyond my wildest thought that I would record a song this year 2020, of all years. This is a time in life when making it to the next day is taken as a great blessing. Any unguarded contact with our fellow humans can be our eviction from the Earth.

Still, we must interact with ourselves or we wither and die, anyhow. How can a world be where we have to isolate from one another?! We can't touch, we can't feel each other's breath on our skin; we can't hug!

The Song 'If We Must Die', What's It About?

All right, so, I have a song "If We Must Die" that I have just recorded and I want to release now on Ditto Music. I wrote this song in 1987, March and I feel so honored privileged by God to be able to sing it after so many years. I can now better understand the philosophy behind the song and I can reach deep for the appropriate emotions to express the song. I worked on this song with Smyl Ufuomah Ebah, my newfound friend for quite a while now, about 3 years. I met him one night while I was driving a cab, night cab and we were chatting I found out he was a producer and though I was a cab driver he didn't doubt when I said I was a musician. That night a number of things happened that drew us close and we subsequently met in daytime afterwards. He was the accompanying guitarist in my song "Been long" on my YouTube Channel.

Therefore, about this song "If We Must Die", I've been asked what made me write the song. Well, the major thing I remember is that I was 24 when I wrote the song, and it registers something to me that at that age I had already come to a perception of life in that light that made me write the song. Life has given me many opportunities to experience it through a lot of stuff and  I really cannot say what exactly it was that opened the door to the song for me, still I guess it was a phase in my efforts to make my dreams happen, thanks to the country I live in. The song appears to have found its relevance in these times for what the whole world is going through right now. Speaking of the pandemic of coronavirus, the never ending attempt to entrench a new world order, racism highlighted in various places in spite of all the advancement made by  every member of the human race at this point in time, bad governance in many countries all over the world including mine, Nigeria. All of these make it so relevant a song that really, if we're going to die why do we cry, why not go all out and reach for the heights, why be afraid of anything? I mean, if you are saving your life you are not going to keep it, one day you are going to let go of it. Therefore, the song says through the years of our lives we continue to struggle to hold up our heads, you know and then life should be more interesting than just moving, struggling to live. And the end of it all is that through the years of our lives it will seem that all these struggles and days of worries and anxieties will be all that we have had and before you know it time keeps ticking, keeps moving, taking us home.

Many people died in this 2020 under mysterious circumstances blamed on the pandemic.
Those of us remaining we still work like we want to get back to the way things used to be, of course it can't be. Much to my pain, some people say of new normal as if it is in their hands to determine what new normal is to be. The Earth, the world, the elements have already determined what is normal. Those who think they ran the previous normal should not take it upon them to come and tell us what the new normal is. Seems the reality is that everybody is starting on ground zero, level zero and nobody can take it upon himself or herself to tell us that they know how to proceed better than others do. They want to lead the way; they want to herd the rest of us as before the collapse of the recent past system. Those who have run roughshod on humanity in the previous normal, people like those who had systems that we all used, they do not want to be satisfied with just having things go their way. They want now to be seeing themselves as Emperors and Lords of the human race by proposing to microchip everyone even in the brains. Unfortunately, it is a bad thing you, know. It is bad; a human being should not forget that bottom line he is still a human being no matter how well things have turned out for him or her. They should not arrogate to themselves status of being better than others are. Last time I checked I have not sold myself over to any other person, nor did I make such an offer to sell. Therefore, they are rich in their own pockets alone. If they see themselves as being too big to share this Earth with the rest of us as God naturally designed it, they should migrate to some other planets where they can be science freaks all they want. After all, their excesses in tampering with nature are what always cause problem for all of us God's contented humans.

 Therefore, "If We Must Die" is a song that says look, come on, let go of your restraints, fears, and conservatism; come on out, come out into the sun, breathe the fresh air, and take on life. I tell my kids, look I have found out in my life that when you step out, God steps out with you. On anything that you are bold enough to stand for, God will stand with you. However, if you are hiding in the shade, God will not be with you there. I know that the bold, God is excited about his people that are bold.

Therefore, ultimately we are all going to die, even if we are going to resurrect, we must die first. Come then let us live this life to the fullest, let us not let anybody who may want to make it his duty in life to put people down, let us not give them the joy of thinking they succeeded. Through it all, as we always say, let us stand.

 Let us make it, let us make it a glorious life for this too shall pass away!


Thanks.  My song, enjoy it and listen, go for it because you need it to run with in the days ahead. You need it to keep hoping, believing, and not allowing yourself to be beat down by situation of things.

 To life, let us make a toast!

#IfWeMustDie #WindieStorm #Ohimiri #CinderellaMoment