Bidayuh Headhunting Songs

Yesterday, a good friend, the person who was responsible to introduce me to Guru Jak, lend me a book called Malaysia At Random (At Random Series). In it, there's a page on a really interesting subject, a subject about songs that the Bidayuh tribe sung prior to a headhunting mission.
 
Before a group of male members of the Bidayuh tribe of Sarawak leave on a headhunting trip, a traditional prayer song will be performed by them. The translation of the song goes like this;

A normal character in ordinary time,
He can make himself a brave fighter,
And a hero when the time comes for revenge against his enemies.
We have kept the skulls for to long,
It is now time to go and get new ones,
Now we are on a headhunting expedition,
Let us say farewell to the spirits of our ancestors,
Let us give them the gifts of these rice grains,
And the heads of the beheadide enemies.

On the other hand, they will then sing another traditional song sung to those male members of the Bidayuh tribe who did not wish to join a headhunting trip which goes;

It is a pity you do not join us in the headhunting venture,
But all you can do is look after the Baruk*,
You are not brave enough,
You have no idea what the spirits of our ancestors told us,
This is because you did not join us in the katang*.
As you had joined me in this successful headhunting expedition,
I gave you the chin part of the skull for you to show to your people.
But as the dog had grabbed it from your hand, you had nothing to show.
Because you are a drunkard
You never realised
That your wife
Was having an affair with another man

* baruk - traditional structure used for ceremonial gatherings and for the storage of skulls.
* katang - a ceremony to appease the spirits of people who were headhunted.

I remember hearing my Guru asking a particular kickboxing student of his, who is affectionately known to many as Captain, if she can ask around, especially the elders from Sarawak, the land where she came from, stories of headhunting adventures and more specifically, to find out more about their fighting system. That would be a very interesting subject to research. The headhunting tribes' martial arts. I myself have been very curious about this for a long time. Hopefully, there will be a documentation of this subject soon, before anything about it will be lost forever in time.

Salam.