Sugarman Sixto Diaz Rodriguez

Your soulful lyrics

Brought comfort to the desperate

Drowning sorrow in seedy bars of Detroit.

Aah the greatest 70’s icon that never was

Your prophetic tunes

Spoke of the burdens of the working class.

A construction worker

Grounded in the cauldron of exploitation.

Born of the indigene

Bringing hope to inner city poor.

Reaching across the Atlantic

To encourage white youth of South Africa

To ditch their ancestral racism.

Your music sang of a new beginning.

Aah what an odyssey you travelled

Animating the socially consciousness

That we are all from One.

Prejudice. Status. Wealth. Race

A clutching of strawmen

Who stand tall

When the other is on his knees.

"Sugar Man, won't you hurry

Cos I'm tired of these scenes

For a blue coin won't you bring back

All those colours to my dreams".

Your soul rests in peace.