Mambai Highland Lullaby
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Mambai Highland Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by the Mambai people of Timor-Leste’s central mountains, who grow coffee on steep terraced slopes. Many Mambai families still gather at the uma lulik, a sacred ancestral house at the heart of the community, and the coffee grown on these steep slopes is prized internationally, much of it organic simply because it has always been grown the old way. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Mambai Highland Lullaby” Means
The Mambai people of Timor-Leste’s central mountains grow coffee on steep terraced slopes, keeping their own distinct language and highland traditions alive. This original lullaby draws on those mountain-mist and coffee-terrace images of Mambai highland life.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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