CD04-17: Samcheok, Song for Chopping up Grass
(Samcheok, Gangwon Province/ Kim, Yeong-ju(57yrs), Kim, Yeong-chul(57yrs)/ 1994)
◆ Sung while cutting the grass with large chopper trod on by two people. Around early Autumn, all kinds of grass, shrubs and bush are cut from the mountain which are then brought down and piled up high at the courtyard of the house. The main purpose of this song is notifying what kind of grass is entering to the cutter, so that the chopper could control his treading power. The chopped grass are fermented and spread over the dry fields. The singer began chopping song when he is 17 years old.
(Content of Song)
“It's a thick tree
There is too much
Can they be chopped?
This is an ash tree
There is a series of thick trees
(names of various shrub trees narrated)
This is a thin tree
Don't loose your attention even for a moment
You are chopping well”