Hak Hom Blokkies
The moustache on his lip is pencil thin like the middle path through his hair
And although his friends call him Blokkies, his wife would call him Joubert
Ag Christina, Christina, he thinks to himself you never could understand
What it feels like to dummy and to sidestep with a leather ball in your hands
Man it’s hard to believe this is Blokkies Joubert a hooker in the Springbok scrum
'Cause he’s old and grey and he sits in his chair in the slanting winter sun
But he made his name with that wonderful game he played
In 1931
Well he sits in the lounge of the old age home just north of Beaufort West
As he watches a TV programme of the Springbok rugby Test
As the images flicker upon the screen he can hear the manne call
They say hak hom, hak hom Blokkies
En Blokkies hy hak daai ball
En ons sê, druk hulle, druk hulle Bokkies
Druk hulle mannetjies flou
Hak hulle hak hulle Blokkies
Hak hulle bolletjie gou
Lig julle knieë druk julle drieë daar agter die doellyn nou
He sits there in the afternoon sun, his memories come and go
He can clearly recall Bennie Osler and Boy and Fanie Louw
Yes, there they stand with the rest of the team in the photograph on the wall
And if you ask him he will show you where they signed on his rugby ball
En ons sê, druk hulle, druk hulle Bokkies
Druk hulle mannetjies flou
Hak hulle hak hulle Blokkies
Hak hulle bolletjie gou
Lig julle knieë druk julle drieë daar agter die doellyn nou
Ja, ons ouens was rof in die ou dae, but we played the gentleman’s game
But it’s all been spoiled by politics, it’s never going to be the same
So he drifts back to the old days as he hears the manne call
They say, hak hom, hak hom Blokkies
Blokkies hak daai ball
En ons sê, druk hulle, druk hulle Bokkies
Druk hulle mannetjies flou
Hak hulle hak hulle Blokkies
Hak hulle bolletjie gou
Lig julle knieë druk julle drieë daar agter die doellyn nou
En ons sê, druk hulle, druk hulle Bokkies
Ah, druk hulle mannetjies flou
Hak hulle hak hulle Blokkies
Hak hulle bolletjie gou
Lig julle knieë druk julle drieë daar agter die doellyn nou