Ivatan Laji

Indigenous Oral Poetry from Batanes

Ola Tataya (Chant)

Singer: Clenita Dierra, Itbayat

O la tataya
kuandang kakuyab
du Riyang* aya

Inawyay ako a piyariharian
Du aruy wan

Ipam ya nu motdej
A maka hangay
Du haraya

O la tataya
kuandang kakuyab
Du Riyang aya

*Riyang – place in Itbayat used in older times to launch the tataya, or small boat, into the ocean.