1. Your village is wide, your state is narrow
    Not worth with you hero.
 
2. Your village is teem, your state is dry
    Long drum sound absent dancers.
 
3. Your village is high, your state is muddy
    Even buffalo difficult to pull.

 4. Your village is enlarge, your state is ruins
     People praise and surprise your stupidity.

5. Your village is happy, your state is weak
    Others flatter the buttock and knock the head.

6. Your village famous, your state hollow
    Others tunneling and take the profits.

7. Your village is better, your state is worrier
    The spirits of guests swallow your power.

8. Your village held festival, your state abysmally poor
    Others sharpen the teeth and masticate slowly.

9. Your village is observe, your state is confuse with haziness
     Because of pulling each others across muddy water.

10. Your village is prosper, your state cleanse by others
      Because of busy with personal case.

11. Your village well known, your state manipulate by others.
      Because of fingers are not equal.

12. Your village is brave, your state is in poor chaos
      Because of the strong ones against the weaklings.

13. Your village sowing rice grains, your state sowing poppy grains
      Good face yielding bad face.

14. Your village listen Buddha' sermons, your state against Buddha
      Listen to ears mould still far with nirvana.

15. Your village be established when your state is fail
      Faint head others press, iron head others knock down.

16. Your village is peace, your state facing with enemy
      Your name also surely stink.

17. Your village is acknowledge, your state is lose
      Your race dying alive.

18. Your village urging, your state complex with dizziness
      Your men transform to enemy.

19. Your village is educated, your state is idiot
      Only going way, no coming way.

20. Your village own wise men, your state own immoral men
      Wise men yield nothing.

21. Your village own money, your state own history
Money guard power, history guard nationality.

22. Your village is honest, your state is tricky
Quarrel with the wise, borrow with the rich.

23. Your village revolt, while your state at bottom
More struggle, get more exhausted.

24. Your village is free, your state is stir by enemy
Because cat' portrait like the tiger.

 

EXAMPLES OF SOME  TRANSLATION

Waan; zao; guarng; Merng: zao; gep;
Bai, lep; zao; hat: haan
(Your village is wide, your state is narrow
Not worth with you hero)

Waan; zao;herng: Merng: zao; mong
Seang gong haam: gon: ga;
(Your village is teem, your state is dry
Long drum sound absent dancers)

Waan; zao; suong Merng zao; oung
Zuong zan guai: yang: yaap,
(Your village is high, your state is muddy
Even buffalo difficult to pull)

Waan; zao; hkaam: Merng: zao; haam:
Gon: yawng; arm: nam. ngur;
(Your village is enlarge, your state is ruins
People praise and surprise your stupidity )

Your = Your Majesty

 

all proverbs from 'Young Tai'