A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

Songs of Japanese Children 177
Yare omoshiroya
Bon-odori
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Long, long,— the Ryogoku bridge is long. Had you
gone there to get cool, on the long Ryogoku bridge, oh !
to see the honorable children in the pleasure-boats, and to
hear the musicians, and the reciters ! —
how pleasant it was,
how pleasant! — and the festival dance, too, — the Bon-
Odori I
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Yanagi no shita no
Oshidori-Sama wa
Asahi ni terarete,
O-iro ga kuroi ;
O-iro ga kurokirya
Ganguri-gasa o-sashi.
Ganguri-gasa iya yo
Ganguri-gasa iya yo
O-Edo de hayaru
Ja-no-me-gasa,
Ja-no-me-gasa
Under the willow-tree
Sir Mandarin-duck
Being shone upon by the morning sun,
His honorable color is dark.
If the honorable complexion be dark,
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