Play time: 02:05 minutes. Recorded in Mago, Kenya, March 19, 2014.

Ekiyoya

Alice Mugasia

Kale muno kwali ho ni linyonyi linde valilanga keyoyo liali liumbaka ku musala mutambi. Ku liatera mavuyu na avana va mundu undi vanina mavuyu yago vatsia vatanyia. Lelo nilitera mavuyu liamanye liaruri. Lwa liarura, mukere yamanya natula natsia kulima naleka vana hango naveye nu mwana indana yalitsi mmusara yaho ndio. Avana yavo vamanya nivatsia ni vita avana vi linyonyi yavo ndio. Linyonyi yilio lwa litsa liamanya lisinyike livola "kijira vandu yava vamenya tsa nivita vana vange." Liamanya like garaha;gwali gonyonyi gonene. Ni gwika garaha ni guginga mwana ni gutsia naye ku musala. Lwa liatsia naye kumusara vana yavo nivagenya ku kumanya kokole ndi. Mama weve niyatsa; lwayatsa natanga kulila navola "ku nangole ndi?" Yamanya atulitse tsinguvu tsiosi natigala ni tsimbere ku vulavu kilitu kivimbi; natanga ilyimbila linyonyi yilio ndio:

Keyoya*2

Mbe mwana nyunyie

Keyoya*2

Mbe mwana nyunyie

Na keyoya yichio kimuvolela

Wovo afwananga sa musungu*2

Mukere oyo atsunguka tsa musala yigwo na alila nyimba tsa

Keyoya*2

Mbe mwana nyunyie

Na keyoya kimujiba

Wovo afwananga sa musungu*2

Keyoya yichio chamanya chaletela mukere oyo mwana weve chanyunyia. Kutula lwene yilwo ndio yamanya yagaya vana veve "pana kololanji linyonyi ni mwtanyia mavuyu ga lio nu musambula tsinyumba tsia lio dave" Kutula kalunu mutangili hene yaho muleke. Ma luhela yaho ndio.

Scooper

Long time ago we had a bird called Keyoyo on a tall tree. It laid eggs on a tree, and children from someone else climbed the tree and broke the eggs. This time it hatched eggs, a woman left children at home and she went to dig the farm. She laid a young child under the tree. The children that were left home went and killed the kindling's. when the bird came it got annoyed and asked "why are people killing my children" it came down slowly, this bird was big. It carried the baby and climbed on the tree with her. The children wondered what they would do. The mother came and she started to cry saying "what shall I do?" she removed all the clothes and started singing for that bird like this:

Keyoya*2

Give me the child I breast-feed her

Keyoya*2

Give me the child I breast-feed her

And Keyoya told her

Yours looks like a white person*2

The woman rotated on the tree as she sang

Keyoya*2

Give me the child I breast-feed her

And Keyoya told her

Yours looks like a white person*2

Keyoya brought the woman the child and she breast-fed her. Since that time she warned her children "whenever you see a bird do not break it's eggs as you destroy the net from today you should stop" and it ended there.