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Chyoko (Field Card)
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The song was sung in Ndongo with a mixture of Lingala (the local lingua franca). b. Probably a variation of a.
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Cinan’gomba (Field Card)
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A child hunting mice dug a hole and found an eagle inside. The bird told him not to tell his mother that he had found him. As the boy was on his way home the bird sang his song. When he met his mother she asked him why the bird was singing. The boy answered "Because I dug it out." The mother chased the bird until...
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Cisokole (Track)
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This is a story about certain men who went out hunting and discovered some eggs and ate a few of them. They decided that they woud not carry any home, but one of them, because he loved his wife took one home for his wife. His wife made him bring these eggs several times until in the end the snake, which laid these...
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Colette (Field Card)
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Masida Ngalima is the name of a woman. Like so many other African guitar players, Ombiza Charles appears to play the whole of his considerable reportoire in one key only. Most of his songs, like this one were about the well-dressed, perfumed beauties of the town, their charms and their misdeeds. "The girls of toda...
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Dale wandizonda (Field Card)
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"My darling does not love me any more! Why is this? I put on white clothes but it does not help." The style of singing appears to be influenced by the local schools, and it is doubtful whether this item is wholely Tonga in form.
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Dale wanga ghamunyenga maSotho (Field Card)
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"My darling boy has married a Sotho girl on account of her money. When we go to Johannesburg by the W.N.L.A. (Witwatersrand Native Labour Association - a large recruiting concern for mine laborers) We all talk "aha-aha!" all the time (exclamations of surprise)." No less than 8,000 men from this district have left...
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Dale wanga ghamunyenga maSotho (Track)
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"My darling boy has married a Sotho girl on account of her money. When we go to Johannesburg by the W.N.L.A. (Witwatersrand Native Labour Association - a large recruiting concern for mine laborers) We all talk "aha-aha!" all the time (exclamations of surprise)." No less than 8,000 men from this district have left...
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Dekuku na degusiya dukwazile kima-koyo (Field Card)
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"He took a wife, chosen from amongst the girls of his own village, when she was very young, but another man stole her away from him."
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Dekuku na degusiya dukwazile kima-koyo (Track)
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"He took a wife, chosen from amongst the girls of his own village, when she was very young, but another man stole her away from him."
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Dekye (Track)
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"A chief's son always wants to become chief himself -- are you not ashamed to want to take your father's place?" The Zande men are specially chosen for the dangerous job of training wild African elephants on account of their bravery. The home district of these Zande men is Dungu, a small town in the north eastern...
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