An old woman who has a goat and a little grandson called Ojo. The old woman cares for both the goat and Ojo and there was a day when the Old woman wants to go to the market. She cooked jam porage and said to the grandson that until she returned from the market, before they will all eat and ask Ojo to go to the farm and get some fire wood while the goat was tied. But Ojo hid behind the house and wait for his grandma to go to the market and as soon as the grandma left, he sinck into the house and ate all the porage and broke the mud pot hanged it in the goat neck, rub his oily hand on the goat's mouth. The Old woman returned from the market tired and hungry and see her cooking mud pot hanged on the goat's neck. She was annoyed and she starts to beat the goat. Amazingly te goat started to talk and the Old woman was shock and surprised, and draged the goat to the village square.
Everyone there couldn't believe what they heard a goat sing.
The song goes this way:
E mi a gboo emi a gboo
a a emi a gbo Ojo fi oioo
epo bo mi lenu
a a emi agbo O Fi agba
gba bo mi lorun a a a
emi a gbo Ojo ro pe eran
ko ki insoro a a a emi a gbo
Translation:
Listen, listen to me
listen, listen to me
Ojo thought animals don't talk
He ate and breake the pot
listen, listen to me
he hang and rub my mouth
with oily hand so as to
convince grandma that I ate the porage
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