Translation of the song 港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ artist Down Town Boogie Woogie Band

Japanese

港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ

English translation

Yoko from the docks, Yokohama, Yokosuka

一寸前なら憶えちゃいるが

If it happened a moment ago, I'd remember

一年前だとチトわからねエなあ

If it happened a year ago, I don't know

髪の長い女だってここにゃ沢山いるからねエ

You say it's a long haired woman. There are a lot here.

ワルイなあ他をあたってくれよ

Sorry. Ask somebody else

アンタ あの娘の何んなのさ!

Hey, you got something with that girl!

港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ

Yoko from the docks, Yokohama, Yokosuka

半年前にやめたハズさアタイたちにゃアイサツなしさ

She quitted half year ago. She didn't even saluted us

マリのお客をとったってサそりゃもう大さわぎ

She took a Mary client, she made an uproar

仁義を欠いちゃいられやしないよ

You can't have such lack of manners

アンタ あの娘の何んなのさ!

Hey, you got something with that girl!

港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ

Yoko from the docks, Yokohama, Yokosuka

ハマから流れて来た娘だね

It's a girl who came from Yokohama

ジルバがとってもうまくってよお

She was good for jitterbugging

三月前までいたはずさ小さな仔猫を拾った晩に

She was there until three months ago. One night she picked a kitten

仔猫といっしょにトンズラよ

She escaped with the kitten

どこへ行ったか知らねエなあ

I don't know to where

アンタ あの娘の何んなのさ!

Hey, you got something with that girl!

港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ

Yoko from the docks, Yokohama, Yokosuka

横須賀好きだっていってたけど

Though she said she liked Yokosuka

外人相手じゃカワイソーだったねエ

She looked pitiable with foreigners

あんまり何んにも云わない娘だったけど

Though she was a girl who didn't speak much

仔猫と話していたっけねエ

She talked with the kitten

前借り残したまんま一と月たったらおサラバさ

She paid me in advance a month ago and she left

アンタ あの娘の何んなのさ!

Hey, you got something with that girl!

港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ

Yoko from the docks, Yokohama, Yokosuka

たった今まで坐っていたよあそこの隅のボックスさ

A while ago she was sitting on a box of that corner

客がどこかをさわったって店をとび出していっちまった

A client touched her somewhere and she ran from the store

ウブなネンネじゃあるまいしどうにかしてるよあの娘

Somehow that girl doesn't want to be an innocent baby

アンタ あの娘に惚れてるね

Hey, you're in love with that girl, aren't you?

港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ

Yoko from the docks, Yokohama, Yokosuka

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