Warabe Uta

[Txkun]

Hi!
I know there are some children songs to remember the godan verbs ending in the past tense (i would like to find the words somewhere) but searching for that I discovered that 'warabe uta' seems a common and important part of the basic culture of Japan.
Not having found anything in the forums I think it would be great to start a thread.

Any Japanese wants to sing for us?

Thanks in advance!

[Oyaji]

So what are we supposed to do in this thread?

[ashitaka]

I think we are supposed to sing, but not type the song.

This should help you,
google.com

[Txkun]

lol
well, what i wished was someone posting his favourite japanese child song with maybe a personal touch or a interesting cultural viewpoint. Something to talk about together.
If no one is interested no problem. I'm not stupid and sarcasm is not fun.

[Schattenjedi]

Txkun wrote:
and sarcasm is not fun.

What?! Sarcasm is one of my main reasons for living!

[hyperconjugated]

LOL, Sarcasm macht man doch lachen.
Mit Schattendenjedi wieder Weinachts
Bier trinken? Est is doch war! Noch
einmals lachen wir! Ich muss doch
meine Deutche sprache probieren.
Es war schon schlect :D

[Sumi]

hyperconjugated wrote:
LOL, Sarcasm macht man doch lachen.
Mit Schattendenjedi wieder Weinachts
Bier trinken? Est is doch war! Noch
einmals lachen wir! Ich muss doch
meine Deutche sprache probieren.
Es war schon schlect

え?何を言いましたか?ドイツ語ですか?

[Oyaji]

I wasn't intending to be sarcastic.

童歌 (warabe uta) can be an interesting way of learning local dialects, and often times contain references to historic events.

「ずいずいずっころぼし」 is a song about a child who falls into a well and no one comes when he calls. Everyone is hiding form the 大名 (daimyou) - referred to as a ネズミ - who is passing through.

[Txkun]

Thanks for the reference to ずいずいずっころぼし, Oyaji. I'll try to find the text somewhere.
Before posting I found only this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teru_teru_bozu. Very cute!
And following the link to wikipedia to Warabe Uta.
I'll try to google again but i didn't find much before.

[suhui]

I like 童歌! Heard the windband piece before..