Mi´-si-ni-en´-di-an, Mi´-si-ni-en´-di-an Mi´-si-ni-en´-di-an,
Ni-kan. Hĭū, Hĭū, Hĭu.
MIDI files: [drum], [flute], [piano]
The words of the text signify, “This is what I am, my fellow Midē´; I fear all my fellow Midē´.” The last syllables, hĭū´, are meaningless.
At the conclusion of the song the preceptor prompts the candidate to ask the chief Midē´:
| Ni-kan´ | k´kĕ´-nō´-mo´, | man-dzhi´-an | na´-ka-mō´-in. |
| Colleague | instruct me, | give me | a song. |
In response to which the Midē´ teaches him the following, which is uttered as a monotonous chant, viz:
| We´-go-nĕn´ | ge-gwed´-dzhi-me-an´, | mi-dē´-wi-wĭn | ke-kwed´-dzhi-me-an´? |
| What | are you asking, | grand medicine | are you asking? |
| Ki´-ka-mi´-nin | en-da-wĕn´-da | ma-wi´-nĕn | mi-dē´-wi-wĭn |
| I will give you | you want me to | give you | “grand medicine” |
| tshi-da-si-nē´-ga´-na-win´-da-mōn; | ki-ĭn´-tshun-di´-nĕ-ma´-so-wĭn, |
| always take care of; | you have received it yourself, |