Koi Mo Nasake

from Mengemedaol er a Irechar by Ngirchoureng

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This song tells about the heartbreak you suffer when you find out that the one you love is your cousin. This was composed by either Mariur Lomisang or Shiro Bedul, both from Ollei and born in the late 1910s. More info: wp.me/p6WC5Y-fD

lyrics

Koi mo nasake
meng diul mlo diak er a rengud
e ke mesngii a riid e
e di ousuchiis e kung
chebuul a renguk e ochedengei
loltoir a ngamkechui
e kau a di mekngit re ngii
e ngosekla bedengem

Kuureng er a tal bo dekasoes
e kdu kkelmesmechek
e kuchotii a kokoro
lchebuul el mengedeau
azuketa kodomo
wa kini kakaru
mak kora di mengkekebelung
losiik a nglunguchek

Wakare no kotoba
kokoro nino kosi
nangaku wasure
nu doko ma demo
hingure kanasi ya
kuk lotkid era irechar
meng sasaya kuko noha
me a renguk a kmo kedi mlei

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Love and pity
and its shout that we didn’t know
as you depart
and are about to avoid me
my poor heart, sweetheart
with its love of the distantly related
and you are just being bad
separating your body from me

I long for the one time we will get together
and I give you my farewell
and I discard my feelings
pitifully standing around doing nothing
I worry about my children left with you
I am sort of going crazy
as she searches for my apology

I keep words of parting
in my mind and
I’ll remember them
for a long time
At sunset, I feel sad
remembering the past memories
when we came to this beach

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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