Yanada by The Preatures
Yanada yanada yanada-marri yanada Gumada, gumada, nula burra-wa Yanada yanada yanada, walama yanama-la Gumada, gumada wa nura (Ngurra-wa)
“Moon, moon, moon, great (full) moon / spirit, spirit (here there, everywhere) in the sky”.
Co-writen by Darug song woman Jacinta Tobin with the band’s lead singer Isabella Manfredi - Dharug, one of the Indigenous languages of Sydney.
See: "Isabella Manfredi on the Preatures' new song: ‘I want Indigenous language on the radio again'" - article by Steph Harmon, writing in The Guardian, 3 August, 2017
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