Kamares

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Accompanying drum pattern: "Drum, I Can Drum"
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Text/Translation

Call: Kamares, kamares
Response: Kamares

Call: Kamares, kamares
Response: Kamares

Call: Na [name] wa siku_hizi
[now _____ of these days]

Response: anaringa ringa sana
[pretending so much]

anatoa res kamares (2x)
[she is removing the dirt]

ana dunda (3x) kadoosh
[dancing, going down]

Text spoken by Class 4 students at Red Rose School in Kibera (Nairobi), Kenya

Performance by Class 8 students at Red Rose School in Kibera (Nairobi), Kenya