I have often wondered what the Minang folk song, Ayam dan Lapeh says and means. Heard it sung by S Effendi ages ago. Got the meaning with a few clicks, left it as it is, as the translator is a Minang:
| Ayam den Lapeh (My chickens ran away) | |
Luruihlah jalan payakumbuah babelok jalan kayu jati dima ati indak karusuah ayam den lapeh ai...ai...ayam den lapeh Mandaki jalan padangsikek basimpang jalan ka biaro dima ati indak kamaupek awak takicuah ai...ai...ayam den lapeh Sikucapang sikucapeh sa'ikua tabang sa'ikua lapeh tabanglah juo nan karimbo oilah malang juo Pagaruyuang batusangka tampek bajalan urang baso duduak tamanuang tiok sabanta oi takanang juo ai...ai...ayam den lapeh | The straight road is to Payakumbuh The twisty path to Kayu Jati How is my heart not suffering? My chickens ran off Ai ai, my chickens ran off The uphill road to Pandai Sikek The junction, to Biaro How is my heart not regretful? You don't care. My chickens ran off Ai ai, my chickens ran off Sikucapang sikucapeh, such a to do! One flew, the other just ran Both into the jungle How unlucky I am! Pagaruyung and Batusangkar where the people of Baso make merry Still I'm brooding now and then Still remembering... My chickens ran off Ai ai, my chickens ran off! |
| English translation from : http://rozniy.blogspot.com and http://annyss.blogspot.com | |
Ayam dan Lapeh with an Angklong Band, sung by powerful lead voices.
perfomer performer.
Oslan Hussein version
6 comments:
Hey, isn't that an Indonesian song first stolen by P.Ramlee? Hahaha, watch out the Indons are going to protest again! :D
It was not really stolen but shared, brought over by the Minangs during Srivijaya times ! ;)
The Minangs, the Indonesian matriarchs are prevalent in 9Negeri. I think the women lost out in Seremban with people like Isa Abu Bakararound and who now wants the Bagan Pinang seat.
Can't recall P.Ramlee singing that. I think it's more of a folk song. The lyrics sound like a fierce matriarch who drove away the menfolk to sleep in the mosque! :))
The language is strangely a little like a few odd Malay dialects in Sarawak coastal areas, although I've never met a Minang in Sarawak.
BTW, I read the Jakarta Post today running some articles of some Jakarta people, from Batawi reputed to be "hired" hands. They now want to seek out Malaysians on Jakarta streets. If they're "hired" people you know who from Malaysia just might hire them for a good spin to make things hazy at home!
Aiyoh... Should we send those indon back home since they might threaten us any time?
What the fuss lah.. just a song!
Again, i wonder where they place their mind.
SPOT ON, Salak! Hired hands - that's what I always suspect! Yeah it always happen when UMNO is pushed to a corner, a Mamakutty scheme, what else!
I just posted my comment on Lim Kit Siang blog, check it out...
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/09/12/indonesia-we-are-not-your-whipping-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-193257
Jarod,
You're missing the picture!
Malaysians have good spin services from Fox media shrink heads. Anything to mask the real problems, like the surgical masks, are good for "some" Malaysians. The cow head didn't work. Maybe in Bagan Pinang, they'll try the chicken head!
Jong,
The Betawi boys only want to 'harrass' and embarrass Malaysians!
Jakarta is one of the most populated Asian cities (8.5 m) and with ends to meet Jakartans will do what Malaysians do well (if not better) and the Betawi boys are good at it, too!
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