Anyone whose curious (PNG girl here), the song is about the woman he loves being far away from him physically and thus he feels like his has to beg her to hold on to their connection because he loves her so much. I will translate the chorus here. Meri lewa (Woman of my heart = meri meaning woman and lewa being heart, and a casual word you can use to refer to someone who you cherish but not say your parents or grandparents (bc the term is too casual) Eg. A best friend, gf/ bf Mi save misim yu turu (I truly miss you!) Na mi wari wari tumas lo yu (I worry too much about you) Longpela time mi no kisim wanpela leta (It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten a letter from you) Bai mi mekim (NOT MEKAI like it says in the video) wanem nau ( I’ll make one right now) sapos yu lusim mi bai mi indai olgeta (because if you loose me (direct but meaningwise it means if I loose you) I’ll just die all together I will go on if anyone requests. I’m very sure he wrote this based on how he had to move from PNG at 15 straight to America. He probably had a girl he left behind and based this song of it as he does make it explicitly clear the girl in the story lived in Morobe province and when he left the only means of communication they had was letters. He’s begging her not to forget him and keep sending letters so he knows she still loves him and he proclaims to her he is still a man of PNG no matter that he moved away and he’ll come back for her and he had never stopped thinking about her (to America). Oh days when true love existed 😭
thank you tru yah, me misim PNG tumas kaikai karamap wantaim ol mangi long east new britain na tok pelay wantem ol auntie long hap.. me sa tok nogutim ol man na meri longhap olsem tok nogut stret yah tasol em tok pelay tasol... People in PNG are very nice and friendly thank you. from Philippines who worked there for 6 years who learned and speaks Pigin like a native XD :)
This song holds a dear place in my heart. Since I was a kid my parents always played it around me and it brings back memories of how I used to sing it, not understanding what he meant but exactly knew what to say ❤️ now I’m grown up realizing what it all meant . Forever love Oshen- love from the Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 and Chuuk 🇫🇲.
Mga batang80s90s adult/teenager nung middle 2000s.saan na kayo? Ito yung panahon na nagtitipon tayo sa bundok/dagat tapos ito ang background music.39here kayo ilan taon na?
Almost every live band in Papua New Guinea will play this song. It's a classic in PNG. I saw a duo playing this today which brought me here. I'm so glad this song came out after I was born. I still remember the nights watching the music video on our local channel. It brings back so many good memories.
thank you tru yah, me misim PNG tumas kaikai karamap wantaim ol mangi long east new britain na tok pelay wantem ol auntie long hap.. me sa tok nogutim ol man na meri longhap olsem tok nogut stret yah tasol em tok pelay tasol... People in PNG are very nice and friendly thank you. from Philippines who worked there for 6 years who learned and speaks Pigin like a native XD :)
This song very popular in my village in Flores Indonesia when i was a kid,, i sing this song with my friend together Although we don't know the meaning of this song...
lallonq rassi the song tells about a Boy who misses his girlfriend whom he didn’t heard for a long time😸 I’m from Philippines but I live in Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 for 3yrs
same here bro ....;when i hear this song it makes me so nostalgic and sad cause i remember when i was kid with my family or friends singing this song no knowing the meaning haha....... :/
My daughter is about to be two years old I showed her your music not to long ago and she loves it it's the only music she dances crazy to thank you brother for your art and talent
I remembered my 14 year old self who memorized the lyrics for just a week. I was addicted to video games on the time about year 2010. I miss those precious moments.
Lol lovely to see ppl from around the world grew up on this song too. This was a definite jam growing up on Guam. A lot of Oshen songs are apart of my childhood in the islands🥰
early 2000s I was kid growing up in alaska and I was litterally the only islander who listen and loved O-shen. I knew and sang all his songs, people thought I was a hippie bc of his music
I grew up listening to this song with my uncles here in the philippinee gathering up and having a good time drinking. I would sing along and mever understood a single world but it was such a jam.
AAAAH AKHIRNYA KETEMU JUGA LAGUNYA, DARI KECIL SUDAH MENDENGARKAN LAGU INI, BEBERAPA BULAN INI SAYA SELALU MEMIKIRKAN LAGU INI DAN AKHIRNYA.....KETEMU. 2023
Oh my Gosh, now i have found you! Tears would really fall if i am listening to this song, i can feel the sincerity of the guy! Thanks to you Oshen, this inspires me a lot! #iloveyoutequiero
I don't understand anything, I don't know how I found it(probably cause of my brothers), but still jamming after more than 10 years.. listening from Philippines
For all you boys who are a long way away from the girls of your hearts, tell your girl this. Listen, listen.
Chrous: Girl of my heart, i miss you very much And i worry far too much about you. It's been a long time since i got a letter from you And i'm writing this letter now So that i don't lose you forever.
Girl of my heart, you came and changed my life I'm always thinking about you when i'm with my guys And why my mind is always busy on you and you alone I want to be with you at Butawin (Butawin is a sea) It doesnt matter where I am Good memories of you always come into my mind It's like i am in my canoe in the water and you are on the ground I dont think if i turn my head you'll be a fake [i know youre not cheating on me]
Chorus
Girl, i think about you too much. I say that I am coming back to see you, and this is true. I am still a man of Papua New Guinea And it won't be a long time before i come back and see you.
Oooh it's not good if you lose your thoughts about me [dont forget me] yeah x 2
Chorus
[im] Thinkin about you girl because I'm so far away from you Wanting you to know that this love for you is always true Not a day goes by that I don't see you in my eye But I try to carry on my guard [im] so lonely I could die [i try to act strong and fine with being away from you but inside i am lonely] And my heart feelin the sparks that you be givin me Why are we in two different places, girl, you know it's insanity The man in me is what I got to find to carry on This song is what I'm sending to you girl, it's been too long.
It's sung in the Papua New Guinea version of Melanesian Pidgin. An English/Islander Creole Pidgin spoken throughout many Melanesian islands; this particular dialect being from PNG. I'm from the Solomon Islands, so we speak a different, but very similar version of this Pidgin. I'll do my best translating since it's a different dialect. The song starts by saying "Boys, when you're far from your girl and you miss her, play this song and tell her this, listen listen" then the song starts with him singing to his "Meri Lewa" where "Lewa" means "girl/woman" and "Meri" makes it means "close to the heart" so Meri Lewa is "girl of my heart" or "sweetheart" essentially. He says, "Sweetheart I miss you truly, and you're always on my mind, it's been a long time since I've gotten a letter, so now I'll make one for you to have of me. You complete my life and even when out with my friends you're always on my mind. When I eat a good meal, it makes me think of you. If I were a canoe and you were a salmon, if i stick my head out, would you appear then?" Then the chorus starts again about him missing her and not getting a letter. Then he roughly says "Sweetheart you're always on my mind, when I say I'll comeback to you I'm talking truth, I'm a rasta man from PNG, it's been a long time since I've gotten to see you where you are" then it's the chorus, the english part and then the chorus again. That's a rough translation for you to get the song. =)
2024 & still up. My barata O-Shen may your voice lives to the infinity 🥺💔😭 Still thinking of my X, she left me coz am a broke Bata back in the ghetto😭am still hustleing hard to make her regret 💔😭
Anyone whose curious (PNG girl here), the song is about the woman he loves being far away from him physically and thus he feels like his has to beg her to hold on to their connection because he loves her so much.
I will translate the chorus here.
Meri lewa
(Woman of my heart = meri meaning woman and lewa being heart, and a casual word you can use to refer to someone who you cherish but not say your parents or grandparents (bc the term is too casual) Eg. A best friend, gf/ bf
Mi save misim yu turu
(I truly miss you!)
Na mi wari wari tumas lo yu
(I worry too much about you)
Longpela time mi no kisim wanpela leta
(It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten a letter from you)
Bai mi mekim (NOT MEKAI like it says in the video) wanem nau
( I’ll make one right now)
sapos yu lusim mi bai mi indai olgeta
(because if you loose me (direct but meaningwise it means if I loose you) I’ll just die all together
I will go on if anyone requests. I’m very sure he wrote this based on how he had to move from PNG at 15 straight to America. He probably had a girl he left behind and based this song of it as he does make it explicitly clear the girl in the story lived in Morobe province and when he left the only means of communication they had was letters. He’s begging her not to forget him and keep sending letters so he knows she still loves him and he proclaims to her he is still a man of PNG no matter that he moved away and he’ll come back for her and he had never stopped thinking about her (to America).
Oh days when true love existed 😭
Thank so much for the translation☺️
Thank you. Iloveyou
Thanks bro 👍. Great job
thank you tru yah, me misim PNG tumas kaikai karamap wantaim ol mangi long east new britain na tok pelay wantem ol auntie long hap.. me sa tok nogutim ol man na meri longhap olsem tok nogut stret yah tasol em tok pelay tasol... People in PNG are very nice and friendly thank you. from Philippines who worked there for 6 years who learned and speaks Pigin like a native XD :)
I miss png im from Philippines.
STILL LISTENING TO THIS SONG AND IT'S FCKING 2021 ALMOST 2022 🥺❤️
Your right bro
Oo
This song is always the best bro
I'm
Lil like lololol
Niceee
This song holds a dear place in my heart. Since I was a kid my parents always played it around me and it brings back memories of how I used to sing it, not understanding what he meant but exactly knew what to say ❤️ now I’m grown up realizing what it all meant . Forever love Oshen- love from the Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 and Chuuk 🇫🇲.
Proud Papua New Guinea. trupla singsing yah....
If you still listening to this 2023, you're a legend. PNG music at its best👑
Mga batang80s90s adult/teenager nung middle 2000s.saan na kayo?
Ito yung panahon na nagtitipon tayo sa bundok/dagat tapos ito ang background music.39here kayo ilan taon na?
22 here.
32❤️💛💚👌🏼👌🏾👌
Taena naiiyak ako sa comment..nkaka miss yung ganyang moments tapos yung music ganito
39 now
30 here sarap bumalik sa nakaraan Mga Brad,, jah bless!!
Almost every live band in Papua New Guinea will play this song. It's a classic in PNG. I saw a duo playing this today which brought me here. I'm so glad this song came out after I was born. I still remember the nights watching the music video on our local channel. It brings back so many good memories.
Sending love all the way from Philippines to PNG.
you guys had an amazing talent. Kudos!
thank you tru yah, me misim PNG tumas kaikai karamap wantaim ol mangi long east new britain na tok pelay wantem ol auntie long hap.. me sa tok nogutim ol man na meri longhap olsem tok nogut stret yah tasol em tok pelay tasol... People in PNG are very nice and friendly thank you. from Philippines who worked there for 6 years who learned and speaks Pigin like a native XD :)
Salamat po, pare-PNG lalaki in Marikina
ayo yu boss mah ya!! Why nah u ino go bek lo ples blo u RABAUL???
This song never gets old❤
Anyone 2019🇺🇲
Love and respect from East Timorese people🇹🇱
kaikai kar u pla olgeta yaaaaaaaah
Those were the days HS LIFE
FROM: 🇵🇭
2019 ANYONE?
ako 😊 2019 na . pero pinapakinggan ko parin to, since grade 5 !
2019 may 28 ..
@@jeilyntamang6018 oo haha 2008 ko unng narinig to
😜😜😜😜
@@romayssabelleofficial176 ay mali yong tag hahaha para kay gian yon😂😂
This song brings back good old childhood memories.🇵🇬🇵🇬🇵🇬
Greetings from Wuhan China 🇨🇳
Mary Libat.. Namaligya ug turon 😁
Solid parin 2021
Philippines 🇵🇭
April 13 2021
Wednesday
5:18 pm
Its 2020 world has gone down to shit and i listen to Oshen to uplift my feelings and stay positive, filipino boi here🇵🇭🇵🇭🤙🤙🤙
2022? Used to jam this on the islands 🤙🏽 Guam 671 🇬🇺
2024 anyone ??
Yessss, let's goo
yup
I'm searching this song for 2 years😭
❤
Wondering why this song isn't in the spotify 😢😢😢😢
Oshen, trupla mangi PNG💯 skel salim tingting singsing haha
childhood reggae music until now still vibing to it 2022
Who is with me here in April 2020????
I know this song when I was in the university.....around 2005
2020 anyone 😭😭
I miss open boarders lol (in fiji)
Im here bro. 🙋♂️😁
Hereee
Yes!
19/12/2020
Wantoks.
Love from West Papua. :)
Proud of our brother PNG :)
One Papua
Love Papua
We love you guys
1st reggae song i heard way back when i was 9yrs old and that is the moment i knew i love all reggae songs
I’ve been singing this with my friends since I was a kid lmao we dont understand a single word but hey we were having fun 😂💗 🇵🇭 gang ~
I can translate for u .
🙌
Nice lol i didnt expect many filipinos to know the song. 🇵🇬🙏🇵🇭
My greatest jam tho. The best to Pahr tsaka Cool Down ng Kolohe Kai 😂🔥
@@crazypunk0062 I agreeeee
i've been searching for this song quiet sometime thank you so much.. found this one..somehow youtube is like a time machine it brings back nostalgia.
2021 and still listening to one of em treasuresss
This song very popular in my village in Flores Indonesia when i was a kid,, i sing this song with my friend together Although we don't know the meaning of this song...
lallonq rassi the song tells about a Boy who misses his girlfriend whom he didn’t heard for a long time😸 I’m from Philippines but I live in Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 for 3yrs
Flore🙌🙌
Same here in Philippines, even we don't know the lyrics we still listening this music before
@@ubraeyd.846 ..Thank you understanding Tok pisin
same here bro ....;when i hear this song it makes me so nostalgic and sad cause i remember when i was kid with my family or friends singing this song no knowing the meaning haha....... :/
Its 2022 y'all and its still gives me the same vibe back then
oh ya Tuhan, sa sudah dengar lagu ini dari sa masih kecil dan sa baru tau ini lagu PNG selama ini sa tau ini lagu barat tuhh, oh Tuhan ampunilah :''(
Aweee.. Best Heat ever.. still lovem song yah.. Oshen u wan men! thumbs up for this tune
Haha taem umi smol LOL
***** brada taem yah yu lo napi XXL yet! Lmao! hate u too ummwah! not miss u muj
Taem ya u nao stap lukaotm mi..ana!! LOL! :-P
Bhahahahahahaahahha... yeah u emia lo dipper XXL baeken! true, u givim hardwork lo mi stet! ahahahahhah :) xxx
Aweeee hahahahaa
PNG em i stap long lewa oltaim oltaim🇵🇬❣️
Memories with this song and it still has that spark 🔥🔥
hahaha dili ra ni hawaian bay. pang international ni. suya ra ka. i love this song
Mga batang 90s 80s lang hanggang ngayon hinde mallilimotan
My daughter is about to be two years old I showed her your music not to long ago and she loves it it's the only music she dances crazy to thank you brother for your art and talent
We sing alot this song in Philippines 🇵🇭so nostalgic
Back when things were simple and music was sweet and pure ❤
2019 👌🏾 from New caledonia 😊
After a decade, i finally found this song 🥲😭❤❤ i remember the days
🇵🇬 🇹🇱 🇻🇺 melanesia🏝💪
💪✨
🇹🇱
Mi likim PNG!!!
Frm Philippines☝️☝️
February 2020 still loving this music❤️ anyone?
May tol
2021 wya so much memories ❤️💯
I remembered my 14 year old self who memorized the lyrics for just a week. I was addicted to video games on the time about year 2010. I miss those precious moments.
i’m going into 2023 blasting this 🔥💯
Lol lovely to see ppl from around the world grew up on this song too. This was a definite jam growing up on Guam. A lot of Oshen songs are apart of my childhood in the islands🥰
early 2000s I was kid growing up in alaska and I was litterally the only islander who listen and loved O-shen. I knew and sang all his songs, people thought I was a hippie bc of his music
Ayo bois! Husat harim dispela lon 2024?
Stap stap. 🙌🏻
I grew up listening to this song with my uncles here in the philippinee gathering up and having a good time drinking. I would sing along and mever understood a single world but it was such a jam.
thats amazing that it was a hit over there
Ajaw pataka og yawyaw dihaa pang oi.. Ikaw rabay naka ingon ani tanan boanga ka..
Haven't heard this song in ages! My nationality is PNG! ♡♡♡
dillen1958 png?
dillen1958 Papua New Guinea?
Yes, that's my nationality. Papua New Guinean-- don't you know Pigin is PNG?
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April 8th 2022 still listening.👍
It’s 2020 and I’m still inlove with this song❤️
adow.. sa kangen papua new guinea langsung.... sa kangen vanimo.... missim yu turu ol mangi...
January. 2020 anyone? 🇵🇭
Yow! Madalas ako dito para lang mapakinggan to, araw araw ko kaseng namimiss yung babaeng nakilala ko dati dahil sa kanta nato
@@agardgreat7188 wow naman may na aalala pala haha
Feel good song ko to.haha
i like the music a lot.....
u made the most lovely song... and it is reggae.... i like 8
One of those songs you remember in the back of your head.
AAAAH AKHIRNYA KETEMU JUGA LAGUNYA, DARI KECIL SUDAH MENDENGARKAN LAGU INI, BEBERAPA BULAN INI SAYA SELALU MEMIKIRKAN LAGU INI DAN AKHIRNYA.....KETEMU.
2023
Oh my Gosh, now i have found you! Tears would really fall if i am listening to this song, i can feel the sincerity of the guy! Thanks to you Oshen, this inspires me a lot!
#iloveyoutequiero
Cracking a budweiser over a fire in my tungke
3/17/2020
10:40am
oshen🔥🔥🇵🇭
lockdown
Shout out to you who is listening in 2021. Jah bless!
this song reminds me with my long time crush .. haha he sang it for me. :)
Miss this song
I have been looking for this song for the past year.
I FINALLY FOUND IT!
Congratulations👍
I don't understand anything, I don't know how I found it(probably cause of my brothers), but still jamming after more than 10 years.. listening from Philippines
Palauan who doesn’t understand the word he saying but I love this song growing up..
Mangrove Warrior ayeee aliii! Same!
Ngak mak dirrek 😊
Sulang for liking this song. Im from Solomon I love Palauan music too😃🙌
Ali
Greetings to Micronesia !!
Timeless!! Brings back the memories a decade ago
2021 but still listening to this song❤️
still listening 2021 it never get old from ph 🇵🇭
always loved this song.
batang 90's lang talaga nakakaalam sa kantang to ❤❤❤❤
For all you boys who are
a long way away from the girls of your hearts, tell your girl this. Listen, listen.
Chrous:
Girl of my heart, i miss you very much
And i worry far too much about you.
It's been a long time since i got a letter from you
And i'm writing this letter now
So that i don't lose you forever.
Girl of my heart, you came and changed my life
I'm always thinking about you when i'm with my guys
And why my mind is always busy on you and you alone
I want to be with you at Butawin (Butawin is a sea)
It doesnt matter where I am
Good memories of you always come into my mind
It's like i am in my canoe in the water and you are on the ground
I dont think if i turn my head you'll be a fake [i know youre not cheating on me]
Chorus
Girl, i think about you too much.
I say that I am coming back to see you, and this is true.
I am still a man of Papua New Guinea
And it won't be a long time before i come back and see you.
Oooh it's not good if you lose your thoughts about me [dont forget me] yeah x 2
Chorus
[im] Thinkin about you girl because I'm so far away from you
Wanting you to know that this love for you is always true
Not a day goes by that I don't see you in my eye
But I try to carry on my guard [im] so lonely I could die [i try to act strong and fine with being away from you but inside i am lonely]
And my heart feelin the sparks that you be givin me
Why are we in two different places, girl, you know it's insanity
The man in me is what I got to find to carry on
This song is what I'm sending to you girl, it's been too long.
Chorus
When you translate it to english it sounds foreign 😂 Amazing how we not only talk but think in different languages!
Such A good song for a nice and good voice. More power to Oshen 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾❣️
Best reggae!
Best song I've ever heard ❤ luv it thank you bata Oshen
i love that song
I've been singing this with my friends wayback in college (2011). Listening to this again brings so much memoriess ❤❤❤
I love this song 💓💓💕
PNG represent....Thank you Jason
2019/ this song I playd in head phones when I go to school high
Still listening to this music 2023 (love this!!)
one of my favorite song..
meri lewa....
Grabe back to childhood days pag itu talaga na plays sa song .❤️😚
Me laikim this pela music tumas ya
Meri lewa nanindag hopas nga toron 😹
I miss this song
one of my favorite song (y)
TL💯
Timor - Lorosa'e🙌💯
i love reggae music!! even i dont understand what they are talking about but i still love listening to this music!!
even i dont undrstand da language is still great
Papua New Guinea lingual franca tok pisin.
I do and it's really easy to understand it and talk it when you hear it enough.
It's sung in the Papua New Guinea version of Melanesian Pidgin. An English/Islander Creole Pidgin spoken throughout many Melanesian islands; this particular dialect being from PNG. I'm from the Solomon Islands, so we speak a different, but very similar version of this Pidgin. I'll do my best translating since it's a different dialect. The song starts by saying "Boys, when you're far from your girl and you miss her, play this song and tell her this, listen listen" then the song starts with him singing to his "Meri Lewa" where "Lewa" means "girl/woman" and "Meri" makes it means "close to the heart" so Meri Lewa is "girl of my heart" or "sweetheart" essentially. He says, "Sweetheart I miss you truly, and you're always on my mind, it's been a long time since I've gotten a letter, so now I'll make one for you to have of me. You complete my life and even when out with my friends you're always on my mind. When I eat a good meal, it makes me think of you. If I were a canoe and you were a salmon, if i stick my head out, would you appear then?" Then the chorus starts again about him missing her and not getting a letter. Then he roughly says "Sweetheart you're always on my mind, when I say I'll comeback to you I'm talking truth, I'm a rasta man from PNG, it's been a long time since I've gotten to see you where you are" then it's the chorus, the english part and then the chorus again.
That's a rough translation for you to get the song. =)
Zeid Khan thanks for the translation. Ive always loved this song and have always wondered what he waa saying.
trianglechokeU you're welcome. I'm glad to have helped you. =)
I’m still listening to this 🔥 and it’s 2023. Never gets old
It's about a guy who misses his girl and doesn't get letters! How do I know this because I am from PNG!
marijuna yah, mi save misim yu tru
hehehe
November 2019? 🇵🇭
Yo edit its already december
2021!!!!! still living!!
i dont understand the lyrics of this song, all i know is that i love it 🎶
I miss this song naalala ko mga dati nmin soundtrip ng mga tropa miss this 2013
NOSTALGIA❤️
2024 & still up. My barata O-Shen may your voice lives to the infinity 🥺💔😭
Still thinking of my X, she left me coz am a broke Bata back in the ghetto😭am still hustleing hard to make her regret 💔😭