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The Bainouk did not know those chairs,

ubëëhër yitreŋot hëbëŋëët haha

stools and chairs like that.

taburééŋ bimbéŋ habëŋgët nini

The Bainouk had never known that.

ubëhër musaadaŋ ayit

What we knew were small trees or a branch of a Kapok or of the sibomb tree.

mino hon iyito guruk konunuhen wala gujund ha sidéén wala sibumb

You cut it and cut it in pieces and you sculpt it.

utak utoxul aŋ upac ninni

That’s the chair.

gumëŋgëët ninni

But, there was one, who went to Ziguinchor.

me amu ugini adëk a gubaabo

That is why I tell you to bring that one so that I show you.

bëmër imaline aŋ iyeno uñoŋot haha burum aŋg igëëno

She goes to Ziguinchor and comes back. She tells her husband: I’ve seen there

adëëk a gubaabo aŋeeti ayen udigéénkenem iwuti bimbeeŋ

that they take wooden planks and they put them together. They say it’s good for sitting.

añoŋ dimbabaraŋ anfaŋënahin ayeni abun bunooh

But they say it is for sale.

bare ayeni gujila

She told him thus and he said yes.

um ayenem num ayenem aaó

He says, ah

ayenem ah

If you can buy one

guhaŋguli ujila ujilahat

She tells him that it’s good for the kitchen.

um ayenem abun a bulikinaum

When I cook food I sit on it.

giradi gulikina inooh a gumër

He tells her: If you can, buy it.

ayenem guhaŋguli ujilahat

That woman went to Ziguinchor she saw it and bought it.

udikaam umoŋ adëki a gubaabo awuli gumër ajilahat

She bought it and her husband came and saw it and said: how!.

ajilahati udiigéni adëti awuuli ayen ne

Well look at you! It's good to sit on!

fi taŋ bunohum bubun

Buy me another one like that.

go ujilatam guruk an gumër

If you go, I give you money, you buy me one like that.

gudëëkëx inëëro dërëmëŋ ujilatam an gumër

His wife is going to Ziguinchor and her husband gives her [money] to buy [the chair].

udikaani agu budë ha gubaabo udigééni anëërëm ajilahat

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In the past, a child wouldnt take the chair an older person sits on.

guliix mino wol dëdëëk añoŋ gumëŋgëët guguni bëëb anoohox

He has his place where he sits.

um nunum amu num kantikhenem këgëni anoohox

If you come and if you dont see him there it means that he has left,

gudëëti guwuron na una buyeŋka afuri

but his chair is always there.

bare gumëŋgëëkënëm tujhur ëguna

One day his chair is there kitchen.

dafer gumëŋgëët guŋgooŋ aguna

he came and his wife came and took it to the

adëëti udikaam aŋan gunaanam a bulikinaum

‎‎And when the children came

aŋgu jaraax gëndëëti

when the children came

jaraax gëndëëti

and sat on it like that,

ganoohi nini

children’s games, they do like that

kuwaxa ha jaraax aye nini

You see how I am doing?

eskë uwuuli ne iyeyne

He shakes with the chair as if it was a car.

atoororëne aŋga gugumëŋgëët aŋgu tomobi gacocine

Those are the games of the children.

kuwaxa ha jaraax innu

Well, after a while

bon adëëkidëëk

those nails which have been driven into the chair,.

dajaŋ amooŋ an ayahane

they got loose and came out.

awoswosi ayëëdahat

they came out

ayëëdahat

That woman came

udikaam umooŋ adëëti

and saw it.

awuuli

If she was like us, she would have taken a stick or a metal and hit it to drive it in.

gëgu an min añoŋmboone gulihan ayëdmbone bumañ anaŋ adég axucun

She sat down

umër adëti anooh

and prepared food.

araa gulikina

Oh, the calebash!

ee gufeŋk

When she was about to pour out the water of the rice, the calebash spilled.

gadëëk burin ha dilurkonom gufeŋ aupahat

The calebash spilled over. She moved away rapidly in order not to get burnt.

gufeŋg aupahati umër aŋgu buwëëkór sam aduhunum

She rose, the nail which was sticking out

adëë buceŋ daaj amoŋ ëgini asóópatne

got caught in her cloth

ayax tëbëŋkënëm

and tore it.

ataatul

And she startled.

aŋgu umër ajugula

Instead of saying that it tore, she says she got burnt.

buyeŋka ataatli umër ayen ajaki

That is where the song came from.

nuŋ gamu imin ne guguin

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That’s where our story ends.

na gutumahënito intijéné