Ai Nama Mamina

A song our high school choir performed for the holiday concert. It's a Latvian christmas carol!
I had my mom record this so I could show my friend, who lives in Latvia. Hope you like it!

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Entertainment

Tags:

• christmas carol
• xmas
• latvia
• latvian

[katiejillmarie]

Any chance you've got a literal translation on this? Working on the program for our upcoming christmas concert.

[xKaoruHitachiinx]

I'm sorry, I don't :( Maybe you can try a translator to get a basic meaning and then work it to make sense? Or maybe there's an actual site with the translation?

[xKaoruHitachiinx]

LOL XD

[lemony1213]

@edza21 it is entirely possible that there are to different versions of the same piece. please don't tell people that they are completely wrong until you know for a fact they are . who wrote the version you have?

Yes i agree this needs to be significantly faster.

If you speak native Latvian than i expect that you can correctly translate, but this recording is not very good. is it possible you miss heard?

there are probably different versions. I'd be interested to no what you used

[edza21]

@lemony1213 I have also performed this (BTW it needs to be a lot faster) and have score too. I speak native Latvian and I am surely not wrong translating lyrics as "Oh, mother of the house - let me in. Kaladū. Dressed in masks they came by cart. Kaladū. Take awl, take heckle. Kaladū. In the crowd of masked people they are raves folk. I will not steal awl, I will not steal needle. Kaladū. I will steal heckle as I need that. Kaladū. As that helps hackle heads of the children. Kaladū."

[lemony1213]

@edza21 o haha i cud see how you would think that but my choir was actually doin this piece (the same version as done here) and so i had the complete score right in front of me, so no, i am not wrong. we are not a church choir.

And what made you think i looked it up online.

[edza21]

@lemony1213 In this version there are no christianty involved, so you are wrong - you can't just find translation by "kaladu" as it is included in many song lyrics.

[edza21]

@katiejillmarie Oh, mother of the house - let me in. Kaladū. Dressed in masks they came by cart. Kaladū. Take awl, take heckle. Kaladū. In the crowd of masked people they are raves folk. I will not steal awl, I will not steal needle. Kaladū. I will steal heckle as I need that. Kaladū. As that helps hackle heads of the children. Kaladū.

[lemony1213]

@katiejillmarie heres the rest wich i couldn't fir into my reply to xkaoruhiachiinx

family choir a kaladu kaladubright are the lights and a bright is the season a kaladu kaladu christ was a born and a that is the reason a kaladu kaladu

there is "kaladu kalady" in between each verse, i just ran out of space so i didn't write them in

[lemony1213]

@xKaoruHitachiinx the translation would be like so:

bambadi etc. rasting a duck and a happily humming-a kaladu kaladu roasting a duck and-a christmas is coming-a kaladu kaladu mixing a punch with a generous measure mixing a punch with a cup full of pleasure chopping a tree when the woods are a dimming propping it up and trimming with pleasure slipping away with the gifts and a wrappinga kids wanna look and the puupies a yapping a sitting around with a log aon the fire a singing along with the...

[katiejillmarie]

Yeah, as I understand it that is not the literal translation, that's the poetic translation. But thanks. :)

[douham98]

Roasting a duck and-a happily humming-a, kaladu..

roasting a duck and-a christmas is coming-a ..

Mixing a punch with a generous measure-a ..

mixing a punch with a cup full of pleasure-a ..

Chopping a tree when the woods are a dimming-a ..

propping it up and-a happily trimming-a ..

Slipping away with the gifts and-a wrapping-a ..

Kids wanna look and the puppy's a yapping-a ..

Sitting around with a log on the fire-a ..

Singing along with the family choir-a .. - more in the next comment -