Ês Anu Raboitas Ka Di Fiansa [English translation]

The cooking pot’s upset

There’s no more oil in the lamp

The mats are damaged

The straw mattresses are spread over the floor

It’s sad, that’s the way it is

Our beds are on the ground

We go to bed on one side, we get up on the other

To avoid the hens and their dirt

Our cans have no more maize

Our bottles have no more honey

My senses tell me that this year

You can’t trust upheavals

There’s no fat or beans in the “catchupa”

The coffee’s tasteless

There’s no more sugar to sweet it

Not even two spoonful of milk to mix with it

We have two boars left

A young nanny-goat behind the house

But since she hasn’t been covered

She doesn’t give milk any more

Children, let me sit down to rest

For an empty bag doesn’t stay upright

Let me look at you and think of this world

And all I’ve endured