Domba Song No. 24

 1  I yowee! Yone .
   Alas! We are hungry (lit. it is hunger).
 2 ri vhone !
   Come, let us see the wonders (of domba )!
 Chorus:  Ndi ro sinda-vho madzhoro.
   It is we who have crushed the coarse maize.

  On the first and the seventh of every forty-two pulses (marked as dotted crochets in the transcription), the dancers clap their hands above their heads. The claps thus occur on the first and second of seven repetitions of the basic pattern of six dotted crotchet beats.  

 
 

 

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