Child Songs

[teoh@cs.utk.edu]

Song 1
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>From chew@cadence.com Thu Mar 16 13:14:48 1995

My grand-parents used to have these albums in Hakka, the ones that
I remember are the stories of Liang San-Pau and Chu Ying-Chai
(in Hakka, Leong San-Pak and Chuk Yin-Choy). I hope I can still find
them somewhere in the warehouse when I go home. I am not very sure, but
I believe they were bought in Singapore.


But my favorites are really the Tung-Yau (Child Songs), this one goes:

	"Chong Mau  Chet"	
	(long  hair thief)

	"Tiau  Law Pet"	
	(steal carrot)

	"Tiau  Dow Loi 	 Bin  Kia Sim Kieu         Ko Nyat"
	(steal to (come) give his daughter-in-law  the month after giving birth)

	"Yit  Nyan Sang        Yit  Jak"
	(one  year give-birth  one  unit(child))

	"Leong Nyan Sang        Leong Jak"
	(two   year give-birth  two   unit(child))

	"Nyan Nyan Do Putt Tai Tai Jak"
	(year year abdoman big big (adjective))


Song 2
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>From SHAN1048@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU Thu Mar 16 17:46:29 1995

I am a ka-ying chui hakka (moi-yen Hak). My grandma was a moi yen hak too.
She looked exactly liked a mongolian. She had high nose brige. Her cheek bones
were high, her skin was darker than the usual hakka and her hair was brown.
When I was little, she used to sing this to me:

lok sui bar bar,
(raining.. the sound of raining..)

ah yee tam char,
(aunt carries umbrella)

ah kung chen chun,
(grandpa cooks egg)

ah po chin ma.
(grandma angry)


* shan yuen.