----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Cogliandro
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 8:31 AM
 Lenjen lyrics 
You asked about lyrics for Lendjin/Lenjen.   Check the T.H.E. Percussion Choir CD, 'A Call To Drum' for our version of it.   I learned it from Suleiman Diop, an Atlantan who is from the Gambia and who plays it on kutiro drums, not djembe.  He says it's originally a kutiro rhythm.  The song he taught tells the story of a village in the Gambia called Saba, some problems the village began to have with the devil and what they did to solve the problem. 

> The lyrics he taught me are:
>          Keimbou san san
>          Sabalia woorro
>          Ay woorro yhe
>          an danta wolla
>          Sabalia woorro
>
> Keimbou is a type of tree, sabalia are the people of saba, and woorro means
> 'screaming'.
>
> Chuck Cogliandro
> MK Drum Center
> 188 Walker St. SW
> Atlanta  GA  30313
> (404) 577-6842
> MK website: http://www.mindspring.com/~jathomps/Mkdrum.htm
>              http://www.mindspring.com/~sabar/thechoir

> T.H.E. website: 
www.thechoir.org