by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Mungo Park (1771 - 1806)

Language: English  after the Unknown Language 
The winds poor white man,
 who came and sat under our tree.
 He has no mother to bring him milk,
 no wife to grind his corn. fell,
the poor white man, faint and weary,
came and sat under our tree.
He has no mother to bring him milk,
no wife to grind his corn.
Chorus
 Let us pity the white man;
 No mother has he, etc.

Note: included as a literal translation within the prose of Travels in the interior districts of Africa by Mungo Park, London, 1799, page 198. See also this rhyming translation, African Song.

Composition:

    Set to music by Harriet Abrams (1758? - 1821?), "The White Man" [ voice and piano ]

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Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

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