Play time: 05:55 minutes. Recorded in Shiru, Kenya, March 12, 2014.

Tsinyimbo Tsya Harusi

Hellen Makungu

Ku mita vananganga Hellen Makungu na nziza kwimba tsinyimbo chigila mukana na azitsa lukali. Ndenya ndanze:

Mama wange nandeve, uleki hai mwana?

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Amwavo wange mbelele x2

Madiku gafweye nakujende na vwaha

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Guku wange nandeve, uleki hai mwana?

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Amwavo wange mbelele x2

Madiku gafweye nakujende na vwaha

Mwana wa mbeli vayayi, mwana wa mbeli

Nu undi noho, mwana wa mbeli mu chekoyelo

Mwana wa mbeli wa mama, mwana wa mbeli

Nu undi noho, mwana wa mbeli mu chekoyelo

Leta maguta ga mwagula, mwana wa mbeli

Kuveke mwana, mwana wa mbeli ni chekoyelo

Mwana wa mbeli vakeele, mwana wa mbeli

Nu undi noho, mwana wa mbeli ni chekoyelo

Leta maguta ga mwagula, mwana wa mbeli

Kuveke mwana, mwana wa mbeli ni chekoyelo

Mwana wa mbeli vayayi, mwana wa mbeli

Nu undi noho, mwana wa mbeli mu chekoyelo

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Leta maguta ga mwagula, mwana wa mbeli

Kuveke mwana, mwana wa mbeli ni chekoyelo

Kweya kweya kweya kweya mumba x2

Mukana uyu kweya, iya yamanya kweya mumba x2

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Susi mama kuba isusi vakeele, kuba isusi

Mama kuba isusi kugende

Na magalaba, mama na magalaba go mwiha

Kuba isusi mama kuba isusi kugende

Na magalaba, mama na magalaba go mwiha

Njahi njahi omwiha, njahi njahi muyayi

Njahi njahi

njahi njahi muyayi

Njahi njahi muyayi, njahi

Ndoli nyalala wa ndatsya, ndoli nyalala

Ndoli nyalala wa ndatsya ndoli

Njahi njahi omwiha, njahi njahi muyayi

Njahi njahi

njahi njahi muyayi

Njahi njahi muyayi, njahi

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Kulala kulala vakeele, kulala kulala vakeele kulala

Njahi njahi vakeele, njahi njahi vakeele

Njahi njahi

njahi njahi muyayi

Njahi njahi muyayi, njahi

Gwasava baba elongu, guzile mu harusi, gwasava baba elong'u

Gwene si guli ugundu, Lucy gwene si guli ugundu

Gwasava baba isuti gutsile mu harusi

Gwasava baba elong'u

Gwene si guli ugundu, mwana wa mama gwene si guli ugundu

Gwasava baba elongu, guzile mu harusi, gwasava baba elong'u

Gwene si guli ugundu, omwana wa mama gwene si guli ugundu x2

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Wedding songs

My name is Hellen Makungu and I am going to sing wedding songs sang when a girl is getting married. I want to start:

When my mother asks me where I have left the child?

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My brothers have mercy on me x2

Days are over we shall be walking with who

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My grandmother will ask me, where have you left the child?

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My brothers have mercy on me x2

Days are over we shall be walking with who

The leading child, the leading child

Is another one, the front child is our pride?

The leading child to mother, the leading child

Is another one, the front child is our pride?

Bring the oil that you bought, the leading child

We apply to the child; the leading child is our pride

The leading child to women, the leading child

Is another one, the front child is our pride?

The leading child to mother, the leading child

Is another one, the front child is our pride?

Bring the oil that you bought, the leading child

We apply to the child; the leading child is our pride

The leading child, the leading child

Is another one, the front child is our pride?

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Bring the oil that you bought, the leading child

We apply to the child; the leading child is our pride

Sweeping Sweeping Sweeping Sweeping the house x2

This girl sweeps, she knows how to sweep the house x2

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Susi mother mother blow susi women blow susi

Mother blow the susi we walk

They are vegetables, mother they are vegetables for the bride

I have looked down upon the bride, I have looked down I have looked down upon the boy

I have looked down I have looked down

I have looked down I have looked down upon the boy

I have looked down I have looked down upon the boy, I have looked down

I have seen nyalala where I went, I have seen nyalala where I went

I have seen nyalala where I went

I have looked down upon the bride, I have looked down I have looked down upon the boy

I have looked down I have looked down

I have looked down I have looked down upon the boy

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Kulala kulala women, kulala kulala women kulala

I have looked down upon the women, I have looked down I have looked down upon the women

I have looked down I have looked down

I have looked down I have looked down upon the boy

He borrowed father a trouser, to use on the wedding, he borrowed father a trouser

He is nobody, Lucy he is nobody

He borrowed father a suit to use on the wedding

He borrowed father a suit

He is nobody, the mother's child He is nobody

He borrowed father a trouser to use on the wedding, He borrowed father a trouser

He is nobody, the mother's child He is nobody x2

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