We came with our wagons' cross a grassland sea
Rolling like a long flotilla
From Tarkaland with thirty families
We crossed the big wide river

With Andries Hendrik Potgieter
And the Reverend Sarel Cilliers
That led us with his rifle and the Bible
To lessen all our fears

There were angels in the laager
That brewed the coffee pot
Till we settled down with our livestock
At a place called Doornkop

Now they call it Vegkop
And there's a reason why
'Twas there we fought a battle
With angels by our side

Though we came in peace there was a chief
Called Kalipi from the Matabele Tribe
Who massacred folks in the laagers
On the Vaal's green riverside

He scorned the flag of truce we flew
With a Mzilikazi yell
Reverend Cilliers then said a prayer
To deliver us from hell

There were angels in the Laager
That fired the crucible pot
And poured the lead into the moulds
To make us all a bag of shot

Stood by with powder horn and rod
To load the muskets for each man
The Angels of Vegkop pledged to fight
The enemy hand to hand

We closed the Laager up with thorn
Covered the wagons with hides
To protect the old and young from the rain
Of a thousand assegais

Two of our number perished
And fourteen were wounded by spears
Four hundred and seventy enemy died
Before the Impi disappeared

There were angels in the laager
With the loyal Baralong
Who tended the wounded and the horses
To keep them safe and calm

The enemy stole ten thousand stock
Our lifeblood taken away
But the Angels of Vegkop
Inspired us that dark day

They were Angels
Angels
Angels watching over us

To the far off Bleskop Mission
Of the reverend Archbell
A rider was sent to ask for help
From the imminent coming hell

Sustenance came just in time
And we realized there and then;
The Angels of Vegkop
Were the women and children

There were Angels in the Laager
That stood by the thirty four
Way back in 1836
Against Silkaats' ravishing horde

Nic Potgieter and Pieter Botha
Were the fallen men
And today the Angels of Vegkop
Are watching over them
And the Angels of Vegkop
Are watching over them
The Angels of Vegkop
Were the women and children