I listened with confusion when people talked in my presence of the Driffields, and when they spoke of them as my friends I said: "Hang it all, I just knew them"; and when they asked: "Weren't they fearfully common?"
Verse 1: Waxaan maqli dhib ee soo socda ii, dhimashadu waa at habka albaabka / cabsan ayaa sheegay ahay Bro halligmi, laakiin aan ahayn wixii Eebe ii dhihi / Waxa uu sheegay in aan eed ma aha in kastoo ...