Translation of a Daina

[Svečias]

Hello!

I recently bought a book containing numerous Latvian Dainas. But they are translated into German as poems, so I am not sure what they literally mean.
I'm particularly interested in one about the sun; I figured out that the original must be one of those:

Saule, saule i šodien,
Nava tāda, kà vakar;
Māte, māte, sveša māte,
Nava sava māmuliņa.

Saule, saule ir šodien,
Nava tāda, kà vakar;
Māte, māte, sveša māte,
Nava tāda, kà māmiņa.


The translation translate.google.com is very bad. I only know a little Lithuanian and no Latvian at all so I wasn't able to translate it myself.
Can anyone here give me a rough, literal translation?

[peter]

Hail there!
Sure here is translation, though you ll be a little disappointed i wonder:)

Today Sun is not
like she was yesterday
Mother, mother, foster-mother
have no own mother

Today Sun is not
like she was yesterday
Mother, mother, foster-mother
She is not like my own mother

so it is one form those orphan songs where own mother is compared with Sun
Hope it helps and good luck!
Peter

[Svečias]

Thanks a lot, I now see that I was quite close to the right translation
But apparently, the sense was altered in the German translation.
Still, I like those orphan songs. I'll go hiking in the Baltic states this summer, and I think Saulė is a fitting warding goddess for a wanderer.