Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow)

Rainbow-coloured light that shines from the rainbow serpent's scales.

Mmmmmm Mmmmmm

Yothu nyäku barrmaḻawuŋ
Child of mine from the womb

Djärimiŋgana
Born into a colourful world

Warraḏaymi yothu
Colourful child

Barrmaḻawu nyäku
From my womb

Ŋoya ḏimitmi
Sleeping fully formed

Ŋuḻarrwaraŋuru
At the sacred place where women give birth

Ratjuman ŋaya yothun nyäku
I dry my child in the sun

Rayilḻi rayilmanaḻi
On the ground where I gave birth

Biḻimbiḻ gunyan ŋarru
The head is placed first

Djärimiŋgan yothun
Rainbow child

Go guṉdirrwuy nyäku
Come, I gave birth to my child in this termite mound (home of the olive python)

Djärimiŋgan
Covered in rainbow

Gunyanan ŋayan ratjuman
Lay me down to dry me in the sun

Yothu nyakuway ŋaya
Child of mine

Ŋamaŋamayuwan nyäku yothun
I created my child

Ya barrmaḻaŋuru
From the womb

Go yothu djärimi
Come, rainbow child

Djukurrmi, Ṉamalanymikunda
Beautiful rainbow child

Yothu nyäku barrmaḻawuŋu
My child from the womb

Djärimi Warraḏaymi
Rainbow, rainbow

Mmmmm mmmmmm