Maiya mori main nahin makhan khayo: meaning
Refrain of the Maiya Mori Main Nahin Makhan Khayo
मैया मोरी मैं नहिं माखन खायो
maiyā morī maiṃ nahiṃ mākhan khāyo
Mother, my mother, I did not eat the butter.
Words
मैया maiyāmother
मोरी morīmyBraj form; modern Hindi would say merī.
मैं maiṃI
नहिं nahiṃdid not
माखन mākhanbutter
खायो khāyoeatBraj past tense; modern Hindi would say khāyā.
The butter thief
Stories of the child Krishna stealing butter from the homes of Braj, and of the women complaining to Yashoda, are told in the Bhagavata Purana. Surdas's poems turn those episodes into the child's own voice.
Source: Bhagavata Purana, Book 10