Bamboo Inn

from Mengemedaol er a Irechar by Ngirchoureng

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This song, composed by Dudiu Tutii, is best known as sung by Julie Tatengelel Aichi, the adopted daughter of Aichi Ngirchokebai, the owner of a bar in the early 1960s called the Bamboo Inn. Julie was one of the great Palauan singers of the 1960s. More info: wp.me/p6WC5Y-s3

lyrics

(V1) Betik er a renguk el anata e
leng diak a me, mekesiur a renguk
me ng omoi yosete mo
leng kmal di kau a betik er a renguk

(C1) Ochedengei di bom chebkak e
bo dudidar itial renguk
leng kmal di kau a betik er a renguk

(V2) Kmal meringel a yamaii yo
leng mla rektak e ochedengei
sel kebesengei e ng meringel chi
me ng diak bok bad el imiit a medak

(C2) Ochedengei di bom chebkak e
mesengkedang er a kmal di kau
e ng uoi meringel a chesebreng

(V3) Sel lorael a rekodo e
mo lotkid er a ngara mong
er a di doilil er a Bamboo Inn
e lak a kora me mengesang

(C3) Sel morael e ochedengei a
renguk a di okikiuellem
e ng meral di kau el tang er a renguk
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You are the one who has found my heart
because if you don’t come, my feelings are flat
and my heart is with you even more
because it is really just you who has found my heart

Brother, just pity me and
make a connection to this heart of mine
because it is really only you who has found my heart

This illness of mine is very painful
because it was my sickness, oh brother
when it is night and my stomach hurts
and I can’t close my eyes and go to sleep

Brother, just pity me
as I waste away over just you
and it is rather hard to be broken-hearted

When the record plays and
it reminds us of the times that have passed
when we just played at the Bamboo Inn
and nothing came to bother us

When you go, brother
I think I will walk behind you
and it is truly just you who is the one of my heart

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from Mengemedaol er a Irechar, released June 20, 2018

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Ngirchoureng Oakland, California

Ngirchoureng — Jim Geselbracht and Tony Phillips — perform songs from the Republic of Palau, written in the 1930s thru the 1960s, accompanied by acoustic guitar, mandolin and fiddle in the "old-skuul" style captured on the 1960s Ngerel Belau (local radio station) recordings. Ngirchoureng (ŋirʔouréŋ) translates to “Mr. Hopeful,” and is taken from Kodep Kloulechad’s song “Bai Derengul a Eolt.” ... more