Oh God! Receive the morning greetings!

Ancestors! Receive
the morning greetings!

We are here on the
chosen day,

We are going to sow
the seed,

We are going out to
cultivate.

Oh God! Cause the
millet to germinate,

Make the eight
seeds sprout,

And the ninth
calabash.

Give a wife to him who has none!

And to him who has
a wife without children

Give a child!

Protect the men
against thorns,

Against snakebites!

Pour out the rain,

As we pour water
from a pot!

Millet! Come!