Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Queen of Japanese Enka, Hibari Misora

I love to listen old Japanese songs since I was young. Hibari Misora is my favorite. She still was the best Enka singer although her untimely death on 24 June 1989.

Like a saying goes; music is a universal language.


川の流れのように

Shirazu shirazu aruitekita hosoku nagai kono michi

-Unknowingly I came sauntering into this narrow and long country road.

Furikaereba haruka tooku furusato ga mieru

- If I looked back I could see my home town in the distance.
Dekoboko michi ya magarikunetta michiChizu sae nai soremo mata jinsei

- Roads here are bumpy and winding. I am clueless without even a map. These also are like life. (Bumpy, winding and clueless)
Aa kawa no nagare no youni

- O Like the flow of a river,

yuruyaka ni ikutsu mo jidai wa sugite

- many ages have quietly passed by.

Aa kawa no nagare no youniTomedonaku sora ga tasogare ni somaru dake

- O Like the flow of a river,the sky would day after day color the horizon only at sunset.
Ikiru koto wa tabisuru koto

- Life is but a journey.

owari no nai kono michi aisuru hito soba ni tsurete yume sagashinagara

- Taking my beloved by my side, I walk this endless road searching for our dream.

Ame ni furarete nukarunda michi demo itsuka wa mata hareru hi ga kuru kara

- Despite the fact that the roads were made muddy by the rain, I am confident that sunny day would return some day.
Aa kawa no nagare no youniodayaka ni kono mi wo makaseteitai

- O Like the flow of a river,I wish to peacefully give myself in to this place,

Aa kawa no nagare no youniutsuriyuku kisetsu yukidoke wo machinagara

- O like the flow of a river,awaiting the thawing of the snow when the season changes
Aa kawa no nagare no youniodayaka ni kono mi wo makaseteitai

- O Like the flow of a river,I wish to peacefully give myself in to this place,

Aa kawa no nagare no youniitsumademo aoi seseragi wo kikinagara

- O like the flow of a river, forever listening to the murmuring blue stream.



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港町十三番地 (Hibari Misora & Saburou Kitajima)



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