Here is our version of "Wátina" ("I called out") by Andy Palacio! Not the best video, but at least you can see what we're up to around here.

If you haven't heard the album this song is from, also called Wátina, I highly recommend that you check it out, as this album catapulted Garifuna music onto the international stage. Andy Palacio passed away a few years ago, and is practically considered a saint across the Garifuna Nation and here in Belize.

Here are the lyrics in Garifuna & an English translation: Wátina / Sítina Dimuretina tuma / Lugunena mua Máhati ayudante / Lanügünina Arihabei lásügürün amuleñei Le ya lémeri wageira Sügürügü sügürügü ugunei Bungiu Baba, sánsibei me Ei niwiwan nu aü lidan irumu le Mama luéigien naríengu bun Aü luni basansiruni niwiwan Luni báfarunina Ígiraraü yebe bana Ya lun ügüriu me Dagagüdaraü yebe bana Ya lun ügüriu me Gálati nubusedun Gebegiti nupasei ei Menege hamutina gaseinsutian

---------------------------------------------------------------- I called out. I whistled. I shouted at the vehicle The person refused to pick me up

Just look at this brother suffering here on our country's roads The vehicles just keep passing him by

Oh God, please change my life this year I ask you to change my life but please do not take it away Please leave me here where I can be a bothersome spirit Just leave me here where I can be bothersome spirit