Ijimu and his men got there on time, the band started to play and Ijimu started to sing this song.
I want to be a teacher,
when a teacher holds a party,
you meet great people there,
when a teacher grows old,
he dies and is buried,
by great people.
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Ijimu would stop singing and the members of the band to the admiration of the people for a while. The band leader started another song and the lyrics went thus:
I know what I want to be,
our members know what it is that they want,
not a market sweeper, I am sure,
the lowest job in the society,
when a market sweeper celebrities,
only the road menders and leaf sellers,
come to rejoice with him.
When he dies like all others in the world, the cleaners, sweepers, water-carriers, come to bury him.
Many of the guests were on the floor dancing and enjoying themselves Ijimu announced another special song and it went thus;