Lyrics - Ojibway
(Native American folk song – Ojibway)
Wahwahtaysee wahwahtaysee
e mow e shin tsi bwo nebaune we
be egaun be egaun ewee
Wahwahtaysee wahwahtaysee
Was sakoon ainjegun
Meaning
Flitting white-fire-insect,
Give me light before I go to bed.
Light me when I go to sleep
With your bright candle.
See also
- Culture: Native American
- Subject: insects
- Harmony: chords i, iv, V
- Melody: minor tonic triad
- Meter: mixed
- Scale: melodic minor
- Source: American Primitive Music With Especial Attention to the Songs of the Ojibways, Burton, Frederick Russell, 1909
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
