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Here's a classic love poem.

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I'll read it in Navajo
first and then in English.

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There's usually this
teasing going on between.

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In Navajo, how we
relate to people

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allows us to tease one
another in certain ways.

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So grandparents, the
grandmother and the grandson,

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they can pretend they're
boyfriend and girlfriends,

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and tease one another that way.

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And that's what I mean
by a classic love poem,

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is the Navajo version.

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So I will read that to
you as soon as I find it.

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It disappeared on me.

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A year in a Navajo home, it's
one of them, the beauty of it

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is that the teasing
between the grandfather,

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and the granddaughter and the
grandmother and the grandson.

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And I always really enjoy that.

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Well, here it is.

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My thumb was on it.

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It's called [NAVAJO].

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[SPEAKING NAVAJO]

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There are two references
that you need to be aware of,

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woman who makes you skinny
is this young maiden who

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becomes so beautiful,
and that young men

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that were attracted to her.

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And then she takes him home.

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And then at night, the
cliff on which she lived

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rises into the sky, and
she becomes an ugly hag.

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And then she starves her lovers.

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And then the other
one is the boy

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whose house is made of
feathers, is about a young boy,

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who has sores all over.

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But with the help of
her grand mothers,

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he went into the heavens to the
house of white lightning, who

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was performing a ceremony
and end up taking out

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12 of his wives.

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So the references are to that.

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"Yesterday, I
listened to the radio

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and heard a little boy
sing a beautiful song.

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She was wearing a beautiful
buckskin, he's saying.

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She was wearing a beautiful
beaded moccasin, he's saying.

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Hey, little boy, come here.

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Let me tell you the story of
the woman who makes you skinny.

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Hey, little boy,
where are you going?

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I chuckled as I thought
back to a time pass

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when I heard an old lady
sing not a so beautiful song.

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Although he was ugly, I made
him my lover, she's saying.

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Now, you want to come
back, she's saying.

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Hey, old lady, come here.

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Tell me the story
of the boy whose

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house is made of feathers.

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Hey, old lady,
where are you going?

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The woman who makes
you skinny, the boy

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whose house is made of feathers
return, return, come here,

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come here, where are you?

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Where are you?"

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