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Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual...

118. BABY SONG, TO PLEASE THE CHILDREN

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Ha′wiye′-hyuwe′, Ha′wiye′-hyuwe′,
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Yu′wĕ-yuwĕhe′, Ha′wiyĕhyu′-uwe′—
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Yâ′nû une′guhi′ tsana′sehâ′;
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Eʼtĭ une′guhi′ tsana′sehâ′;
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Yâ′nû nudûñnelû′ tsa′nadiskâ′.
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Ha′wiye′-hyuwe′, Ha′wiye′-hyuwe′,
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Yu′wĕ-yuwĕhe′, Ha′wiyĕhyu′-uwe′—
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The Bear is very bad, so they say;
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Long time ago he was very bad, so they say;
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The Bear did so and so, they say.

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Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Project Gutenberg eBook #45634

117. THE MOTHER BEAR’S SONG 119. WHEN BABIES ARE BORN: THE WREN AND THE CRICKET