Suriname folk-lore

2. Ancestral Cult Songs.

a) Twin songs.¹

1 Twins in the Bush, as in Dahomey and other regions of the West African Coast west of eastern Nigeria, are sacred. They are known among the Saramacca people by the Dahomean term hoho, and are called hohobi, from the Fɔ̨ hoho, ‘twin’ and the Gą bi, meaning ‘child’.

54.

Ka - bi - ya - ya gbo - lo Ka - bi - ya - ya Ka - bi - ya - ya

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55.

Hand-clapping:
A ku - da mi mbe-yu Na - kia-ban-dya Ma na mi sek'
Na- kia-ban-dya

56.

Ka - ya zun - zio Ka-ya zunz' bom-bo zem- ba - ye
Ka - ya zun - zio Ka - ya zunz' bom-bo zem - ba

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Ho-lo -lo bom-bia ho-lo- lo A - ho - lo bom-bia ho - lo - lo
Ke-bu-ta m'ta-ta dy - a - la - la Ho-lo- lo bom-bia ho-lo - lo A-