
Lyrics - Rōmaji
(Japanese folk song)
Ame ame fure fure kaasan ga
Janome de o-mukai ureshii na
Pitchi pitchi chappu chappu ran ran ran
English Translation – Rain Rain
Rain, rain, fall fall, Mom
will meet me with an umbrella, it will be fun
Syllables imitate the sounds of rain.
(source)
Japanese – あめふり
あめあめ ふれふれ かあさんが
じゃのめで おむかえ うれしいな
ピッチピッチ チャップチャップ
ランランラン
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- Country: Japan
- Subject: rain
- Harmony: ostinati / chords I, IV, V
- Melody: pentatonic / C,D,E,G,A,C’
- Rhythm: quarter notes & rests / dotted eighth & sixteenth patterns
- Timbre: Boomwhackers
- Source: Wee Sing Around the World,Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1994
- more verses & info about the song / verses in Japanese
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