MATATA YA MWASI LYRICS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY FRANCO ET TPOK JAZZ

Intro

Oh oh nasali nini oh?.Senzela mwana moninga ozui ngai na mpasi.Batela ngai na ntango likambo bamona.Bondela ngai soki nasaliki,mwasi alingaka présence ya mobali.
 
(Oh what did I do? Watch over your friend's/another person's son who has problems with care. Protect me whenever you see that I have a problem. A woman loves/likes the presence of a man)
 
Oh tokabola faute.Mabe ebandi na yo, mpe na ngai.Lokola bato bayebi toluka équilibre.Senzela mwana ya bato.bondela mwana ya bato.
 
(Oh let us tell the truth, to be frank, you and I are the cause of all evil. As the people understand it, the reason is we are looking for equality, Watch over some people's sons with care, plead with some people's sons.
 
Repeat 1&2 (x2)
 
Chorus: Matata ya mwasi na mobali esila te na mokili mama.Oh mama, mama ah!.
 
(The problems/quarrels/fights between a wife and a husband will never end in this world. Oh mama, mama ah!)
 
Likambo nini Nzambe osala biso mibali,tosalelaka basi.Bango baliyaka, balataka,Biso mbula mobimba patalo moko na nzoto.
 
(Why did GOD create us men to toil for women's sake? We feed them, we dress them while we men spend a whole year with only one trouser on our bodies because of our selflessness to make ends meet)
 
Refrain: Matata ya mwasi na mobali esila te na mokili mama.Oh mama, mama ah!.
 
(The problems/quarrels/fights between a wife and a husband will never end in this world. Oh mama, mama ah!)
 
Mama aboti ngai mwasi.Oyo akoniokola ngai mwasi.Nzambe apesi ngai etumbu,nabotaka basi bandeko.Bananiokola bana ya bato,Nayoka motema mpasi bandeko.Oh oh mama, oh mama mama.
 
(My mother who bore me is a woman, the one tormenting me in the house is a woman. God again gave me another punishment of siring girls my guys. You know  Women torment other people's sons, I feel the pain to see am going to be the cause of other people's son's sufferings when my daughters get married)
 
Chorus:Matata ya mwasi na mobali esila te na mokili mama.Oh mama, mama ah! oh mama.
 
(The problems/quarrels/fights between a wife and a husband will never end in this world. Oh mama, mama ah!)
 
Soki abimi azongi, akotuna epayi awuti te.Soki yo okendeki ko traiter ba affaires.Olobi ozonga, olia, opema,Akomi kotuna yo.Ozalaki wapi, owuti wapi, balobaki boye.Mwasi nabala na mosolo, nani apesi ye autorisation,atuna epayi na wuti bandeko.
 
(If she goes out and comes back to the house you never ask her where she went/she has been, but when you go out on a business trip the day you come back she will torment you with questions like, where were you?, where are you coming from? I was told this and that about you, Till you will start wondering"How can the woman I married and paid for her dowry can torment you like this" Who gave her the authority to ask you where you're coming from guys?)
 
Oh oh mama, oh Mama mama
 
Chorus:Matata ya mwasi na mobali esila te na mokili mama.Oh mama, mama ah!.
 
(Why did GOD create us men to toil for women's sake? We feed them, we dress them while we men spend a whole year with only one trouser on our bodies because of our selflessness to make ends meet)
 
Franco solo 4.
Likambo nini,Adamu olataka ndambu ya liputa.Eve akosaki yo.Biso tomonaka bwale.Oh mama, mama ah.
 
(Why did you Adam dress yourself in a revealing cloth that caused Eve to cheat you,  that caused the genesis of a man's suffering?.)
 
Chorus:Matata ya mwasi na mobali esila te na mokili mama.Oh mama, mama ah!.
 
(The problems/quarrels/fights between a wife and a husband will never end in this world. Oh mama, mama ah!)
 
Oleka awa basi.Oleka kuna matata bandeko.Bino basi, basi bandeko.Bino nde bokobota biso.Bino bokobokola biso.Bino moko bokobala biso.bino moko bokoniokola biso.tokosala nini bandeko.Obalani yo na mobali,matata mikolo nionso yonso na ndako,mpo na nini boye.Oh oh mama, oh mama mama
 
(Wherever you go all over the world you will hear men complaining about you women guys, you are the ones who deliver us men, some of you discriminate against us/make us go at loggerheads with our extended families, some of you torment us, what do we men do to protect ourselves from women? you got married to your husband, you cause him problems/provocation always in the house. why is it this way? Oh oh mama, oh Mama mama
 
Chorus:Matata ya mwasi na mobali esila te na mokili mama.Oh mama, mama ah!.
 
(The problems/quarrels/fights between a wife and a husband will never end in this world. Oh mama, mama ah!)
Likambo nini Nzambe osala biso mibali,tosalelaka basi.Bango baliyaka, balataka,Biso mbula mobimba patalo moko na nzoto.Oh oh mama, oh mama mama
 
(Why did GOD create us men to toil for womens'sake? We feed them, we dress them while we men spend a whole year with only one trouser on our bodies because of our selflessness to make ends meet)
 
Chorus :Matata ya mwasi na mobali esila te na mokili mama.Oh mama, mama ah!.
 
(The problems/quarrels/fights between a wife and a husband will never end in this world. Oh mama, mama ah!)
 
Mwasi akoki koloba na yo,azali na mpasi na libumu.Yo osilisi mbongo bandeko,na medicaments na pharmacie.Nzoka azali kokosa yo.Ayebi sekele na ye bandeko.Oh oh mama, oh mama mama
 
(A woman can tell you she's having a stomach ache at a time when you don't have money to go to the chemist to buy her medicine, if you tell her the truth that you have no money to buy her medication you will be in trouble guys. Oh oh mama, oh mama mama!

The translation is provided to facilitate understanding and appreciation of the original work.

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