Kundarima

COUNTRY: Australia/Torres Islands
LANGUAGE: Kokopera

Found on the Smithsonian Folkways album, “Songs of Aboriginal Australia and Torres Strait.
This one is “Song by Christopher Jeffrey,” number 135. The original song is from the perspective of a boy who is watching in the sky as two eagles fight over a tortoise which they had carried up high and eventually take back to their nest.

A little boy was watching the clouds in the sky float by
When he saw two eagles fly
They were having a fight it wasn’t right
kU’ndaRima kU’ndaRima kania he
They were having a fight it wasn’t right
kU’ndaRima kU’ndaRima kania he

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