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The Kokopera and Umpila are two tribes of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queens land.
The former live about two-thirds of the way down the eastern shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria,
while the latter are found at Lockhart River Mission, on the east coast of the Peninsula
about 120 miles south of Cape York itself.

Side B, Band 15. Sung by Christopher Jeffrey, a man 20 years of age.
Not evident from the word by word translation are some additional details gleaned by ancillary eliciting from the informant. These make it possible to state the gist of the song as follows:
A man was lying on his back and watching two eaglehawks fighting
over a tortoise which they had carried high up into the sky and
which they eventually took back to their nest. He decided to compose a song about what he had seen.
taken from: "Songs of Aboriginal Australia and Torres Strait" (lp-album)
(lp booklet, 1964, edited by Geoffrey N. O'Grady)

word by word translation (of the KOKOPERA song):

eaglehawk two were facing each other
(a man) was lying on his back
they both from the west were coming
clear sky
high up
they both fought
they both fought
high up
dive
high up
they both getting homesick
(?) took they both
dive
high up
they both getting homesick
(?) took they both

and the original words:
pakawulu kotera winjandee yahe ee pulu kelem awanadee patekerija pa
keni keni kunda rima kunda rima keni yahe
kuti keni keni ii patewalke pinenke winjenke puluhee

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from transienteutonichic, released January 1, 2016

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