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Aboriginal Songs
Cuneel yananay curreelbee yananay youroogungerrybah curreel Yananay mingabawlay warrinay curreelbee yananay youroogungruyla Curreel yananay Poo
Translation
go away Cold, why tarry so long, return into the blue sky get behind the Cloulds the Spirits will let you in why remain cold . let the bright Sun shine forth go away Cold remain with the Spirits [ahead] .. go away
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Minerarathay Caumil a gnaw thalbermay mirenarathay
bollerangawl ooroobinee buttherawawlay yananay Caumil
agnaw thabbeemay mirreeacathay Poo
Translation
The Spirits of the fathers wont go. why haunt us . why frighten us . go away into the bush go into "Bollerangawl" remain in the Clouds. go away into "Butherawawlay" leave us good Spirits go go
Note
Bollerangawl a Mountain on the [Namoi] where the Blacks suppose the numerous Spirits they speak of reside occasionally Butherawawlay another Mountain or the [Namoi] similarly situated