ကဆီထံအဲဲၣ်ဒီးဂဲကလံၢ်

"နမၤခုၢ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဘၣ်ယၤနီၤ" စံးဝီာ်ဒ့လၢအမံၤနီၤလၢမဲးခိၣ်တဲးဝဲၤ "လဲၤဂဲၤကလံၢ်လၢကၢ်လီၢ်ကၢ်ဃၢၤန့ၢ်"

"You’re getting dirt on me!" says Shongololo, sleeping in the sand. "Go dance somewhere else."

ကဆီထံအဲၣ်ဒီးဂဲကလံၢ် အဝဲၤပိၢ်ရံးလီၤအသးလီၤလၢထံကျိပူၤဒီးပှီၢ်ထံလၢအစုးအခီၢ် သပျဲး သပျဲး

Hippo wants to dance. She rolls into the river and splashes her arms and legs. Splish! Splash!

"နမၤဘၣ်စီာ်ယၤလီၤ"ထိၢ်လီလၢအဃုၤအီၣ်အဆၣ်လၢဂီခီတဲးထီၣ်ဝဲၤ "လဲၤဂဲကလံၢ်လၢကၢ်ဃၢၤန့ၢ်"

"You’re making me wet!" says Kingfisher, hunting for her breakfast. "Go dance somewhere else."

ကဆီထံတမိၢ်ဂဲကလံၢ် အဝဲဒၣ်ပိၢ်ရံးအသးကဝီကဝီလၢနီၢ်အကျး ဒီးတချးထီၣ်အခီၢ်ဖးထီၤၤ သဝူးသဝူး

Hippo wants to dance. She twirls around and around in a field, kicking her legs up high. Swoosh! Swoosh!

"ပလီၢ်နသးစ့ၢ်ကၢ် နဘူးကတချးဘၣ်ယၤလံၤ"ယုၢ်မံခဲးထဲးထီၣ်ဝဲၤဖဲးအဒုးလုၢ်အဖိၤအထံအခါ လဲၤဂဲကလံလၢကၢ်ဃၢန့ၣ်

"Be careful! You nearly kicked me!" says Meerkat, bathing his babies. "Go dance somewhere else."

ကဆီထံတၢ်မိၢ်ဂဲကလံၢ် အဝဲဒၣ်ခွ့လီၤလၢနိၢ်ပူၤ ဒီးကရံးအဟုးဖၢဖးဒိၣ်ကဝီၤကဝီၤ သခွံး သခွံး

Hippo wants to dance. She flops into a puddle of mud and slides around on her nice big belly. Squish! Squash!

"ဘၣ်မနုလၢနတအိၣ်တ့ၢ်ဂဲၤကလံၢ်နတဘျီ" ကသ့ၣ်ယီစံးကွၢ်အီၤဖဲးအယိးဃာ်တၢ်ဒၢ "ဘၣ်မနုလၢနတမၤတၢ်မၤကၢ်ဃၢလၢအကဲးဘျုးလဲၢ်"

"Why don’t you stop dancing?" asks Donkey, carrying his buckets. "Why can’t you do something useful instead?"

ကဆီထံအသးတမုာ်လၢဘၣ် အသးတမုာ်ဘၣ်န့ၣ်တုဒၣ်လဲၢ်လၢအဂဲကလံၢ်တထီၣ်လၢဘၣ် အဝဲဒၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢလၢၢ်ခိၣ်ဒီးဟီၣ်ဝဲဒၣ် အမဲာ်ထံၤယွၤလီၤလၢအဘီးပါ လီၤစီၤလၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်

Hippo is sad. She is too sad to dance. She sits on a rock and cries. The tears roll down her cheeks and fall on the ground.

ဖျီးဖျီး ဒွဲာ်နၢ်ဟူကဆီထံအမဲာ်ထံလီီၤ အဝဲၤဒၣ်စးထီၣ်ဂဲကလံၢ်လဲၤဝးတရံးကဆီထံအခီၣ်ထံး ဟီီာ်ဟီာ်

Plop! Plop! Grasshopper hears Hippo’s tears. He starts dancing around her feet. Hop! Hop!

ကဆီထံဒီးဒွဲာ်စးထီၣ်ဂဲကလံၢ် ဒီးတၢ်ဖိဃၢ်ကၢ်ဃၢတဖၣ်ကွၢ်ဝဲၤလီၤ

Hippo and Grasshopper start to dance, and the other animals come to look …