Territoire de l'Inini [English translation]

Warm as nest

Inini territory

Everything ends there

Sinks in the immensity

Squared-off trunk

Glides over the river Maroni

Seasoned canoeists

The shaman will heal them

Relentless rains

Over rio Camopi

Breasts as round as fruits

Bathing naked in the river Inini

Dances and sorcery

All night long

Ashes over felled timber

And the plane took off

Over the sleeping village

One night in a hut

By candlelight

Women exchanged without a word

For beads and guns

Rain on the felled timber

Over the sleeping village

Fevers and diseases

Over the sleeping village

Ashes over felled timber

Fevers and diseases

And the plane took off

Cry and pray

Arawaks, Guaranis

Guayaras, Galibis

For the Amazonian Indians

Deep down their sinister night (bis)

It's like a piece

Of paradise

Like a piece...

Cry and pray

Arawaks, Guaranis

Round as fruits

Guayaras, Galibis

Cry and pray

Arawaks, Guaranis

Guayaras, Galibis

For the Amazonian Indians

Round as fruits....

• Artist:Gérard Manset
• Album:Revivre (1991)