Lyrics - Pawnee
(Native American folk song – Pawnee)
Ti waka o we re ru ti kaku sa
Kura ra wakuru sa
we re ru ti kaku sa a a
We ra ri turu katka a a
We re ra hu katata
Ru te wi kaks awahuu
We re ru ti kaku sa a a
We ra ri turu katka a a
We re ra hu katata
Free Translation
Listen, he said,
Now it (the man) sits among them (the buffalo)
These are his saying,
Now it sits among them as they come,
Now they have passed through the village,
Now they have crossed the stream,
It flies above them here and there, shouting and calling
See also
- Country / Culture: US / Native American
- Form: ABC
- Harmony: one chord
- Melody: repeated tones
- Meter: mixed
- Scale: 5 tones
- Tones: m,l,t,dlt
- Source: Pawnee Music, Frances Densmore, 1929, Smithsonian Institution Burueau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 93, p. 25
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
