Lyrics - Kikuyu
(Folk song from Kenya)
1. Kanyoni kanja, kanyoni kanja,
Gakugwanja na mītheko
2. Ndakoria atīrī, ndakoria atīrī,
Wamīcore watinda ku?
3. Ndatinda kairi, Ndatinda kairi,
Ngiaragania mbīrīgītī.
4. Ī mbīrīgītī, ī mbīrīgītī,
Na ndinainū, kia kagoto.
5. Kagūa irianī? Kagūa irianī?
Gwa cū cū wa kamirūkio.
Translation - Little bird
1. Little bird, little bird,
Laughing and rolling around.
2. I asked him, I asked him,
“Little striped one where have you been?”
3. “At the quarry, at the quarry,
Spreading little stones.
4. “All the rocks I left, all the rocks I left
And I lost all my little stones.”
5. “You lost them where? You lost them where?”
“All the stones fell into the sea.”
See also
- Country: Kenya
- Subject: birds
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm:
- Scale: tetratonic
- Tones: t,drm
- Source: Wee Sing Around the World,Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1994
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
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4 thoughts on “Kanyoni Kanja”
The English translation is wrong!!
Please tell me what the English translation is so I can update it!
MY MUMMY USED TO SING FOR ME THAT SONG
thanks dear, my teacher taught me this song