Korean Art Song Learning Center

Tag: bird song

  • IPA- 새타령 (Bird Song)

    1st Verse

    Birds, birds are flying in
    All kinds of birds are flying in

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    Roc in Namyeong
    Phoenix on the paulownia leaf

    Wild goose in lovesickness
    Scops owl in search of home

    Mandarin duck with its mate
    Seagull setting sail

    Eruhua! wonderful
    Spring has come

    Aruhua! wonderful
    Spring has come

    Ya! News has come
    across the streams and mountains of this land

    Also fluttering across the mountains and streams
    Even fluttering across the blue waves

    2nd Verse

    Birds, birds are singing
    Which bird is singing?

    Owl cries “boo-woong, boo-woong”
    The woodpecker pecks “tak-tak-reu-reu”

    Cuckoo sings “bbo-guk, bbo-guk”
    Oriole chirps “kkwe-kol kkwe-kol”

    Eruhua! wonderful
    Spring has come

    Aruhua! wonderful
    Spring has come

    Ya! News has come
    to this broad land

    Ding-dong-daeng-dong also in the forest
    Ding-dong-daeng-dong even in the fields