Ham ham hamaya, He-who-travels-from-one-end-of-the-world-to-the-other
ham ham.
Ham ham hamaya, The-great-cannibal-of-the-north-end-of-the-world,
ham ham.
Ham ham hamaya, He-who-carries-corpses-to-be-his-food,
ham ham.
In other songs the significant words are more elaborate. They are
phrases fitted to the tunes, often by doing violence to the ordinary
forms of the words. The words are controlled by the tunes. I might
imitate this in the following way: