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새야 새야 파​랑​새​야 (Bird, Bird, Blue Bird)

from 이​산​: This Mountain by 이산 / Seth Martin

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A traditional Korean folk tune and lullaby. Recorded in Portland, Oregon, November 2016, with students from 성문밖 학교 (SMB Mountain School).

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새야 새야 파랑새야 녹두밭에 앉지 마라
Birds, birds, blue birds, do not disturb the green-bean* fields.
녹두꽃이 떨어지면 청포장수울고간다
The farmers will cry if the flowers are dropped and lost.

새야 새야 파랑새야 녹두밭에 앉지 마라
Birds, birds, blue birds, do not disturb the green-bean* fields.

녹두꽃이 떨어지면 부지깽이 매맞는다
If the green-bean flowers dropped, the farmers will be angry and you will be thrashed.

*The Korean general Bong-Joon Juhn lead an unsuccessful uprising against corrupt rulers and invading Japanese troops in the late 19th century. His nickname was the Green Bean General. Legend says that he was a Korean version of Robin Hood; after attacking corrupt officials and seizing their treasures, he then distributed them to the poor commoners. He was very popular and many commoners joined his army. His army swept through large parts of the Korean peninsula before Korean rulers requested the Japanese army to intervene. Juhn’s army, equipped with spears and arrows, was no match against the westernized gun-wielding Japanese army, and in 1895 Juhn was captured and hanged. Korean commoners sang this song to lament General Juhn’s death and the failed coup d’état, and it is said the widows of Juhn’s army sang this song to their babies as a lullaby.

Information quoted from: http://www.sejongculturalsociety.org/composition/current/music/parangsae.php

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from 이​산​: This Mountain, released November 7, 2016

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Seth Mountain 이산 South Korea

Seth Martin (aka Seth Mountain or 이산), is a roots musician originally from the Pacific Northwest (US).

Continuing in the radical tradition of artists like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Utah Phillips, Martin has been living in Seoul since 2015. He regularly performs with Korean and foreign folk, indie and rock acts.

"Quite possibly the closest thing we have to Woody Guthrie."
--Bill Mallonee
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