Baken Kasin
Virginia Digson
(Kankanaey)
From the day we met
You made me forget
All my fears
Knew just what to say
And you kissed away
All my tears
I knew this time I had finally found
Someone to build my life around
Be a lover and a friend
After all my heart had put me through
I knew that it was safe with you
And what we had would never end
Wrong again
Everybody swore
They'd seen this before
We'd be fine
And you'd come to see
That you still loved me
In good time
And they said there's nothing you can do
It's something that he's going through
It happens to a lot of men
And I told myself that they were right
That you'd wake up and see the light
And I just had to wait till then
Wrong again
And it seemed to me the pain would last
My chance for happiness had passed
And nothing waited 'round the bend
I was sure I'd never find someone
To heal the damage you had done
My poor heart would never mend
Wrong again, wrong again
Sabong Shi Bahong
Cesar Pasiw
(Ibaloi)
There’s one fair lady
whom I had known
she’s also an Ibaloi like me from Bahong
who got a distinct beauty
needless to say-all men shall I say
will fall on her ravishing beauty
I left her for a while
since I went home not that far
but really i always think of her
as I could not forget
the way she states
my physical bearing
She seems to be a flower
like those planted n Bahong
with fair scent and rare beauty
by the time it is cut and harvested
immediately brought down to Manila
there it is being swooned and adored
Perhaps I’d better stay
there at your place in Bahong
then I will cultivate my own garden there
so I all have the reasons
to stay closer beside her
so no one will “harvest” my fairest flower.