Mar 21, 2011

A Indonesian folk song --- Nina Bobo

Let's hear Sutiyem and her friends singing!
Can you guess what this song is about?

To summon their husband's back?
To pray for blessings?
To praise the president?
To comfort the babies?


Here comes the lyrics :) Sing along!


Actually, this is a bedtime song. In English, "Nina Bobo" means "Lullaby". Sutiyem told us that, when she was a child, her mother used to sing this song to her before she went to sleep. During her days in Indonesia, she would sing her sons and  daughters to sleep too.

Here is the English translation of the lyrics:


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