Archive of Korean Traditional Folk Songs

(Yeongdong, Chungbuk Province/ Seo, Nam-sun(70yrs)/ 1995)

◆ Sung while spinning hemp thread, which consumed so much time of the women in the past. It eloquently describes the scene of women spinning. The spinning of hemp thread refers to the work of making little pieces of hemp peels into long thread.

(Content of Song)
“Hanging a bundle of hemp at the door, I wet the hemp and busily spin the thread
In the evening, under fire light
At dawn under moonlight
We spin throughout the night and now there is a whole pile of thread”

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