Tajerogue Chijñecare
Tajerogue Sings:
I will sing a bit. They say I was Ipeyai’s sister. Even though it’s true I will hide the words of my song from Uchiedie.
I almost left you, but then I remembered your sisters and how kind they were to me, so I went back to you. I was almost with another man, but you came and took me away from him. I wasn’t sad at all. I looked at you and when I saw tears falling from your eyes I felt sorry for you, and I went back to you. But I wasn’t sad. Even if you were the only young man there was – as if I would miss you! The things you young men tell us girls are just your little words. You claim you didn’t miss me, but here you are hugging me again. Truthfully, though, I wouldn’t miss you at all. You keep repeating how much you suffered and sorrowed for me. I wasn’t thinking of you back then like you guys thought I was. And I don’t miss you guys at all.
Tajerogue – Tobité, Bolivia – 1965.
Transcribed by: Joyce Davis Buchegger.
Translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
