Miña mai
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My Mother
My mother, for me to get married
She offered me a songbird,
And now that I got married,
She paid me with a chicken.
My mother, for me to get married,
She offered me a calf,
And now that I got married,
She told me it would die.
My mother, for me to get married,
She offered me three sheep,
One lame, one crooked,
One blind and earless.
My mother, for me to get married,
She offered me a crazy year,
And now that I got married,
She said the wolf would eat it.
My mother, for me to get married,
My father to give me the dowry,
They started a quarrel,
The pot broke his feet.
I have sorrow and joy,
I have two evils at once,
When sorrow kills me,
Joy gives me strength.
