Play time: 01:42 minutes. Recorded in Mago, Kenya, March 14, 2014.

Simba Mugoye Ndarira

Alice Mugasia

Sasa kale mu madiku ga ndavilukila mu ndahula kwenya kushila avana tsinyimbu tsindala ndahulaga vimbagaku. Ku vimbaga ndi:

Simba mugoye ndalila*2

Nimba ndole mandu

Simba

Ndola mukulu atuliyi

Simba mugoye ndalila

Simba*4

Simba mugoye ndalila

Simba mugoye ndalila*2

Na magaraba, yae,

Na magaraba ga vakulu na valilange

Yae,

Na magaraba gagilinya

Suguma erori

Yae,

Suguma erori

Mwana wa mma

Suguma erori

Yae

Suguma erori kogende

Suguma ichage

Yae

Suguma ichage

Mwana wa mma

Yae

Suguma ichage kogende

Na magaraba, yae,

Na magaraba ga mwanitu nalilange

Yae,

Na magaraba gagilinya

Suguma erori

Yae,

Suguma erori

Mwana wa mma

Suguma erori

Yae

Suguma erori kogende

If you don't give me rope

Now long time ago during the days that I was growing up, I used to hear songs that were sang when children were going to be circumcised. They used to sing like this:

If you do not give me the rope I will cry*2

Whenever I see someone

If you do not

I am seeing someone coming

If you do not give me the rope I will cry

If you do not*4

If you do not give me the rope I will cry

If you do not give me the rope I will cry *2

They are vegetables, yae,

They are vegetables that the initiates will be using

Yae,

They are vegetables

Push the lorry

Yae,

Push the lorry

The child of mother

Push the lorry

Yae

Push the lorry we go

Push for it to start

Yae

Push for it so starts

The child of mother

Yae

Push for it to start we walk

They are vegetables, yae,

They are vegetables that the initiates will be using

Yae,

They are vegetables

Push the lorry

Yae,

Push the lorry

The child of mother

Push the lorry

Yae

Push the lorry we go

Push for it to start

Yae

Push for it so starts

The child of mother

Yae

Push for it to start we walk