The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168402   Message #4078158
Posted By: Stewie
03-Nov-20 - 10:40 PM
Thread Name: Mudcat Australia-New Zealand Songbook
Subject: RE: Rise Up Mudcat Songbook - Australia
WIYATHUL
(G.Yunupingu)

Two scrub fowl crying out, looking for Guwalilna
the calls like woman crying, looking for Murrurnawu
the cries returning his mind to the jungles at Mutlwutjna

oh place Guwalilna, Warradika, Yumayna, m.m

Oh the old man cries, from the drink
oh dad Kamba-Djunadjuna, home Mayan-naraka bright in his mind
oh my two mums, beloved mums, hold Ruypu Milinditj
oh my two mums, beloved mums, cry for the sacred spring Burarrapu
oh the place Guwalilna, Warradika, Yumayna, m.m
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/wiyathul-wiyathul.html

Youtube clip

Most Darwin gardeners hate them, but the orange-footed scrubfowl is family to the Gamatj people.

Scrubfowl cry

The late Gurrumul Yunupingu was a Northern Territory treasure.

--Stewie.