Play time: 00:43 minutes. Recorded in Shiru, Kenya, February 19, 2014.

Ndyegu Yazya Kusuma

Hellen Makungu

Ku mita vananganga Hellen Makungu na kwimba:

Ndyegu katsya kusuma, na achima umwana

Umwana katsya kusuma, achima Ndyegu

Ndyegu vava ukariranga go

Tsunu tsunu tsunu

Gakwegitsanga mama yatsya kusuma ni yima mwana na mwana lwa yatsa kusuma yamanya ni yima mama nalila.

Ndyegu went to look for food

My name is Hellen Makungu and we used to sing:

Ndyegu went to look for food, and denied the child

The child went to look for food, and denied Ndyegu

Ndyegu why are you crying

Tsunu tsunu tsunu

It is teaching us that mother went to look for food and denied the child when the child went to look for food he denied the mother.