Japanese Butterfly Song

Japanese Butterfly Song Posted by Ginny on May 12, 2011 in Culture

There’s a very famous children’s song about butterflies that probably almost every Japanese child knows. Here’s the video of the song with the lyrics below:

蝶々　蝶々 (chōchō chōchō)

[butterfly butterfly]

菜の葉に　止まれ (nanohani tomare)

[stay on the oil seed leaf]

菜の葉に　飽いたら (nanohani aitara)

[when you lose interest in the oil seed leaf]

桜に　止まれ (sakurani tomare)

[stay on the cherry blossoms]

桜の花の　花から花へ (sakuranohanano hanakarahanae)

[on the flowers of the cherry blossoms from flower to flower]

止まれよ　遊べ (tomareyo asobe)

[stop! play!]

遊べよ　止まれ (asobeyo tomare)

[play! stop!]