1. I ransom my life for the honoured chief
With my brains, if he accepts my brains

2. And who am I among his great kindness
And my family's poverty within my family

3. His clothes are in my bag in his house
And his bread settled in my religion

4. Stipend that became, by his grace
In each day I reap my crop

5. And my insides were with sorrows a mourning house
But today a wedding house in my stomach