Vanotambarara 

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Vanotambarara - Serunyemba (Sometimes also - "Kutambarara") 

The literal translation is to sit with both legs straight or metaphor for relaxing. When they say "Serunyemba", it represents the beans that just stretches whenever it wants to. It seems to elude to someone either not paying attention and/ or relaxin too much. 

Nyamutamba nengwena are other lyrics version sometimes heard meaning the one who plays the crocodile" 

Mbira Nyunga Nyunga but can also fit with the Mbakumba dance

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Zimbabwean singer, mbira player, and dancer Tendai 'Tendex' Madzviti performs 'Vanotambarara'