I recently had the opportunity to watch a classic movie "My Fair Lady", which is the story of Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins so that she can pass as a lady. Higgins takes credit for Eliza's success, but she realizes that she can now be independent and does not need him. The musical's 1956 broadway production was a smash hit, setting a new record for the longest run of any major musical theatre production in history. It was followed by a hit London production, a popular film version, and numerous revivals. It has been called "the perfect musical."
One of the more memorable songs in the musical is "without you" and after watching it, I paraphrased the lyrics into a beffiting song called "Kenya Without You"
What fools we were, what dominated fools.
To think that politicians were the earth and sky
What fools we were, what elevated fools
What kichwa maji we were
No our reverberating friends
You are not a beginning and the end
There’ll be rains every year without you
Kenya still will be here without you
There’ll be fruit on the tree
And a shore by the sea
There’ll be mandazi and tea without you
Art and music will thrive without you
Somehow our mashairi will survive without you
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Litein
Even that will remain without you, we can do without you
You, dear politician, you taught so well
You can go to Hague, Local Tribunal or TJRC
There can still be rulers in Kenya without you
State House will stand without you
And without much ado we can
All muddle through without you
Without pulling it, the tide comes in
Without your twirling it, the Earth can spin
Without your pushing them, the clouds roll by
If they can do without you, ducky so can we
We will not feel alone without you
We can stand on our own without you
So go back in your shell
We can do bloody well without you
By George, we really will do it, will do it, will do it
We said, we’d make a nation and indeed we will do it
We know that we can do it, we know , we know
We said we’d make a nation and succeed we will
Kenyan you’re magnificent
