***SAKAYANON (The Sailor)
Lyrics by: Jun Jun A. Ramirez
English Translation by: Greg In. Trabanca
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MIDAG-OM MIDAG-OM NA DAPIT SA ATONG HABAGATAN
(Nimbus clouds loom in the northern horizon)
PAGBANTAY, BANTAY MGA KAUBAN, ANG TIMBANGAN DILI PAGABIYAAN
Be watchful mates, don't leave the rudder)
AYAW BAYA KALIMOT NGA GIKALISANGAN KINING HANGINA
(Don't ever forget that this is a horrible wind that sailors dread most)
MOGISI SA LAYAG MOGUBA SA ATONG SAKAYAN.
( It will split the sails, it will destroy our boat.)
TIMBANG KAMO, HINUBIG KAMO, DAGAN NGARI, DAGAN DIDTO,
(Balance yourselves, ready with the water buckets, swiftly move here and then through there)
MAOY LABING PAIT ANG SA KINABUHING SAKAYANON,
(It is a very precarious life, this being a sailor)
INIT UG ULAN GIANTOS NAMO WAY PULOPASILONG
(Scorching heat or pelting rain, we weathered without shelter.)
ANIA PAY KATUGNAW UG KAKAPOY PA GAYUD INTAWON
(Here's the bone-penetrating coldness and the dire exhausting tiredness)
GIANTOS ANG TANAN KAY GINBUT-AN SA KAPALARAN
(All these, we relentlessly suffer for its mandated by fate.) G-G7
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