Tomete Kureru Na

from Mengemedaol er a Irechar by Ngirchoureng

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This song was most likely composed by Kodep Kloulechad sometime in the 1950s. A minor-key yona-nuki pentatonic scale song influenced by Japanese Enka music, it is a blues song of heartbreak. More info: wp.me/p6WC5Y-el

lyrics

Tomete kureru na
Desiik el kmal mle betik er a renguk
Ngera dula mak chetikom
Meke merort me a
di ua sodel a sils leng
di memochar ngebard

Maltae ng di mle beot a rengum
e chosang aikal rengud
me kede mo kebii e ak di medengei
blulekngem rengak
el ua sodel a teriobs leng
di kiete yuku

Kurai yomitsi no
ima tada hitari
mak di ourureng a mla sidai
er a dungil kasoes
e chelechae di meloaoch le
kua uleiul a eolt kung

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I hold back the tears as we come to an end
We had searched and found the one I love
What did I say that caused you to come to dislike me?
We are ending just like the sun that
is going down in the west

You were the easy-going one
but you really disturbed our hearts
we will separate and I just know
your lie to me is
like the breaking of sea foam because
it just goes and disappears

Your lies before, my lover
I'm just nostalgic for our relationship
when we were glad to see each other
and now just wandering because
I am like a destructive wind that is about to come

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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