Sukiyaki - The Song

[WebmasterMaryJo]

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<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color=navy>For some reason, I can't get this song out of my mind! I'm even memorizing the Japanese lyrics ... lol.

My dd has a friend who's mother is Japanese. I asked her to write the lyrics to Sukiyaki for me, and she just gave me this weird look, and smiled politely.

Well, I looked up Sukiyaki on the Net, and found out that that is not the songs' real name! When the song became popular in the '60's and crossed over to the USA, DJ's decided to change the name from Ue o muite to something Americans could remember, so they renamed the song Sukiyaki - a type of food. Nowhere in the song does it mention Sukiyaki. No wonder my friend, Yasuko, looked at me weird! lol

Here are the lyrics - they are hauntingly sad to me. Sad to say, that Kyu Sakomoto (or Sakamoto Kyu in Japan) was killed in the worst avaiation disaster to date. The world lost a fine voice when he was killed.

Here are the original lyrics, and then the English translation:

ue o muite arukou
namida ga kobore naiyouni
omoidasu harunohi
hitoribotchi no yoru

ue o muite arukou
nijinda hosi o kazoete
omoidasu natsunohi
hitoribotchi no yoru

shiawase wa kumo no ueni
shiawase wa sora no ueni

ue o muite arukou
namida ga kobore naiyouni
nakinagara aruku
hitoribotchi no yoru

whistling

omoidasu akinohi
hitoribotchi no yoru

kanashimi wa hosino kageni
kanashimi wa tsukino kageni

ue o muite arukou
namida ga kobore naiyouni
nakinagara aruku
hitoribotchi no yoru

(whistling)

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[WebmasterMaryJo]

Seeing if the midi plays too


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[Barb]

MaryJo, we had the 45 of this when we were younger. And, while we didn't really know the "words", sang along with it all the time. Now that 's a blast from the past! Thanks, MJ!