Refrain:
Arirang, Arirang, Arariyo,
Arirang over the Hill we go.
후렴:
아리랑 아리랑 아라리요
아리랑 고개로 넘어간다.
1st Verse:
If you leave and forsake me, my own,
Ere three miles you go, lame you'll have grown.
2nd Verse:
Wondrous time, happy time—let us delay;
Till night is over, go not away.
3rd Verse:
Arirang Mount is my Tear-Falling Hill,
So seeking my love, I cannot stay still.
4th Verse:
The brightest of stars stud the sky so blue;
Deep in my bosom burns bitterest rue.
5th Verse:
Man's heart is like water streaming downhill;
Woman's heart is well water—so deep and still.
6th Verse:
Young men's love is like pinecones seeming sound,
But when the wind blows, they fall to the ground.
7th Verse:
Birds in the morning sing simply to eat;
Birds in the evening sing for love sweet.
8th Verse:
When man has attained to the age of a score,
The mind of a woman should be his love.
9th Verse:
The trees and the flowers will bloom for aye,
But the glories of youth will soon fade away.
II. Miryang Arirang
1st Verse:
Look on me! Look on me! Look on me!
In midwinter, when you see a flower, please think of me!
Chorus: Ari-arirang! Ssuri-Ssurirang! Arariga nanne!
O'er Arirang Pass I long to cross today.
2nd Verse:
Moonkyung Bird Pass has too many curves--
Winding up, winding down, in tears I go.
3rd Verse:
Carry me, carry me, carry me and go!
When flowers bloom in Hanyang, carry me and go.
Note: Bird Pass or "Saejae" is the summit of a high mountain, rising north of Moonkyung in the ancient highway, linking Seoul with Miryang and Tongnae (Pusan). Its sky-kissing heights are so rugged that in their eyes. This is a love song of a dancing girl from Miryang who was left behind by her lover from Seoul (Hanyang). She is calling him to take her with him to Hanyang. She believed that her own beauty was above all flowers in Hanyang. The words in the first line of the chorus are sounds of bitter sorrow at parting. This song was composed by Kim Dong Jin.
III. Gangwon Arirang
1st Verse:
Castor and camelia, bear no beans!
Deep mountain fair maidens would go a-flirting.
Chorus: Ari-Ari, Ssuri-Ssuri, Arariyo!
Ari-Ari Pass I cross and go.
2nd Verse:
Though I pray, my soya field yet will bear no beans;
Castor and camelia, why should you bear beans?
3rd Verse:
When I broke the hedge bush stem, you said you'd come away;
At your doorway I stamp my feet, why do you delay?
4th Verse:
Precious in the mountains are darae and moroo;
Honey sweet to you and me would be our love so true.
5th Verse:
Come to me! Come to me! Come and join me!
In a castor and camelia garden we'll meet, my love!
Note: The highland maids would like to make up their hair with castor and camelia oils and go love-making instead of going to work in the soya-bean fields. Moroo is a mountain grape; darae is a banana-shaped fruit with black seeds studded in its flesh. These are precious foods to mountain folk. The song is sarcastic, but emotional to comfort the fair solitary reapers who go about gathering the wild fruits in the deep mountains of Kangwon-do.
Verse 1: A - ri -rong a - ri - rong A - ra - ri o. A - ri - rong ko - ge - ro no - ma - gan da. Se ha - nul se ddang - i ir - uo jo - ne. Se no re - pu - ru - myo - wha - dong ha se!
Verse 2: A - ri -rong a - ri - rong A - ra - ri o. We are cross-ing o - ver the crest of the hill. Let us sing to - geth - er with a new heart. We will see the dawn of the great new day!
[edit]Origin of the title
You learnt this only yesterday? Just wonderful stuff Ivan.
