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Mama, please, let me love him
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Recordist's notes
an excerpt of a love song “Toxoba Mama” performed by Cota Youth Choir from Windhoek Namibia. the song tells the story of a girl begging her mother, “...please Mama, I love him so much; please Mama let me love him...” all tracks archived at https://archive.org/details/no_place_better_than
About the place
Hamm is a city of about 178,967 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 129 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Paulus Kirche, Hamm, Germany - Mama, please, let me love him...” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0