AKO MANANGGETE - Philippine Folk Song (Hiligaynon)

This Hiligaynon folk song is a type of work song sung by a mananggete or those are into making the Visayan tuba wine. These mananggete climb coconut palm trees to gather the sap of the unopened coconut flowers which are left overnight to drip to bamboo containers. Early in the morning, and late in the afternoon, the mananggete collects the sap and pour it in a long bamboo container with a wooden hook called kawit. Before putting back the bamboo containers to collect the sap, these are cleaned with a bamboo implement with whittled end and are tapped on the coconut petioles to remove any dirt in a process called patik-patik.

This song was collected by Priscilla V. Magdamo in 1958 in a Hiligaynon-speaking place in Visayas as sung by a certain Angelina Surilla.

The notation below was taken from a learning module available online.

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