ラム・プルーン カティナ祭り

Verse 1:

Welcome everyone, please help us!

For our Katina Festival

Everyone in the village

Every year, we participate in the Kathina Festival

On the day of the traditional event, Oak Panther (*2) (Repeat)

Verse 2:

Ladies and gentlemen of Isan

Let's collect rice for this year's Kathina Festival

The night of the full moon in November is the day of the festival

The older generation, for the sake of virtue (Repeat)

Offer new monk's robes and offerings to the monks

By gaining virtue, people will remember your name

Let's remember that the period is one month

Accumulate virtues with an open mind and pure heart (Repeat)

If you want Nirvana, you must participate in the Kathina Festival (Repeat)

Verse 3:

You

Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to the rest of the lam

Those of you who are gathered here

Let's heat up some food. I'll make some noodles

Bring banana leaves to wrap the khanom tien (*3)

Make sure you pick the most beautiful bananas

Put them in the khanom tom (*4) bean paste (Repeat)

Bridge:

Let's go to the Kathina Festival (Repeat)

Let's go there and gain virtue too, beautiful sisters (Repeat)

Hook:

That village is well prepared, that village is rich in talent

The offerings for the Kahtina Festival have been perfectly prepared

The festival to be celebrated in a big way (Repeat)

Regardless of the distance between the villages, it is everyone's feeling to participate in the festival

A large number of young men and women also gathered (Repeat)

The wind in the dry season feels cold on a girl's skin

The wind chill in November is unbearable

Listening to the rustic molam at the festival is the best moment

This is our good old culture (Repeat)

It's because of our relationship

Let's go to the Kathina Festival (Repeat)

* Footnotes:

1: 'Katina Festival' is a Buddhist festival held at the end of the three-month rainy season for Theravada Buddhists in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand

2: The day of the end of the ascetic practices in the temples during the rainy season

3: A traditional offering of sweets often used in Buddhism

4: Thai sweets