What was your name? Pearl. Ruby and Pearl, mother and daughter. It's an ugly name, isn't it? No, it isn't. And I meant it, it wasn't. Old-fashioned, perhaps, but nice. She stared at me. Do you know what pearls are? They're ugliness: dirt or sand gets in an oyster and the oyster coats it over so that it won't be irritating.

Ngatu also composes his own shambo songs on the album Biggest Gift, and he brings his own mixed musical traditions into his work.

And oxen wyl plowe in tough cley … And whereas is now suerall pastures, there the horse plowe is better, for the horses may be teddered, or tyed upon leys, balkes, or hades, whereas oxen may not be kept: and it is used to tedder them, but in fewe places.

I don't know their system, but I think I can wing it.