| Description |
This wedding song, “Father, don’t give me far away,” celebrates the friendship among a cohort of girls who will all be married to different villages. The young bride asks her father not to give her far away or to a “different country” in marriage for then she would no longer be able to meet with her group of girlfriends. In the future, she might be able to meet with her father and mother on return visits, but not with her group of girlfriends. The song then goes on to make the same request to the maternal uncle. Such songs, sung around a bride, can be repeated addressing a widening range of relatives, including other paternal uncles and brothers. |
