Ni-Wa-Wa (A Mud Doll)

Panai's Ni-Wa-Wa (A Mud Doll)
Tracy Chapman's Fast Car
This afternoon I went to a lecture with my Freshman English students. The speech was given by a famous producer of aboriginal music--Zhang 43, a stage/pen name he gave himself. Why does he use a number as part of his name? It's because that was how old his mother was when he was born.
43 has invested a lot of energy and money in aboriginal music since 1997. A lot of talented aboriginal singers were recruited by him and had their own albums sung in their own tribal languages. A couple of singers even got the "best singer" awards at the Golden Bell Award ceremonies, an award which is equivalent of the Amy Award in the USA. 
I'm a music lover, and I enjoy pure voice & simple melody. In 2000, I bought a CD of songs sung by Panai, an aboriginal singer from Taitung (the east of Taiwan). Unlike most other singers, Panai has a deep voice. If you like Tracy Chapman's voice, then you'll like Panai's because their voices share a lot of similarities.

Ni-Wa-Wa Ni-Wa-Wa, a  mud doll
She has a nose and eye brows, but she doesn't wink.
Ni-Wa-Wa Ni-Wa-Wa, a mud doll
She has a nose and eye brows, but she doesn't speak.
She is a fake doll, not a real one.
She has neither a dear father nor a loving mother.
Ni-Wa-Wa Ni-Wa-Wa, a mud doll
Let me be her father and her mother, so I can love her forever.

Native Taiwanese: 9 tribes in Taiwan