CD01-14: Gumi, Song for Planting Rice Sprouts
(Gumi, Gyeongbuk Province/ Baek, Nam-jin(70yrs), Bak, Dae-bok(76yrs)/ 1993)
◆ Sung around the Yongnam district and nearby regions. Around these regions, the song for planting rice sprouts is often called 'Monorae'(Planting Song). Usually the second phrase responses to the content of the first phrase, but in this village when one person sings a phrase, several others repeat that together.
(Content of Song)
“Let us plant rice sprouts in this wide paddy (repeat)
Planting rice sprouts in this wide paddy, they look good (repeat)
Planting pine trees around my parents' grave, they look good (repeat)
Where has the landlord gone, without blocking the water holes of the rice paddy? (repeat)
Taking some nice side dishes he has gone to his mistress' house (repeat)
If his mistress' house is a flower-bed then my (lawful wife) house is a pond (repeat)
The butterfly in the flower-bed is good for only one season, but the carp in the pond lives for all four seasons.”