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Can Anyone Help with an Afro-Haitian Dance Song?

Nathalie wrote me:

In my afro-Haitian dance class we always sing a song that goes like this (phonetically):

Sa sa ko ma
Ne neigh woe
Ko Ko ma

Sa sa ko ma
Ne neigh woe
Che che
Ko Ko ma

Do you have any idea what song this is?

Natalie Carpenter

If anyone can help with this song, perhaps also help identify the language, and/or provide a translation, please comment below.

Thanks!

Lisa

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This entry was posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 11:48 am and is filed under Countries & Cultures, Creole, Folk Songs, Haiti, Haitian Folk Songs, Languages, Questions, Readers Questions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Can Anyone Help with an Afro-Haitian Dance Song?”

1. Katie Says:
   May 8th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

   im doing a project for school and i need authors and songs of haiti

2. Laurie Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 1:28 am

   This song is actually a Haitian song for a nightly game. The lyric is correct but the phonetic is all wrong. This game is played with a small rock. Children would sit in a row in the lotus position. One child would kneel in front of them. She would hold a small rock sing the song then left it in one of the kid, skirt etc. Then a third child is supposed to guess who have the rock. If she guesses right, she gets to take the place of the rock holder. The last person who has the rock is the winner.
   Leave me your questions or comments in my blog (http://caribbeanpearls.blogspot.com) and I will correctly translate any other songs you may have… if you need any more help let me know.
   Sa sa ko ma
   Ne ne o
   Ko Ko ma
   Sa sa ko ma
   Ne ne o
   Che che
   Ko Ko ma

3. Sibyl Rolle Says:
   September 21st, 2009 at 10:28 am

   What is the translation for this song?

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