Translation of the song 大利根無情 artist Haruo Minami

利根の利根の川風　よしきりの

The breeze of the Tone river is like a reed warbler

声が冷たく　身をせめる

Its voice tortures the bodies cruelly

これが浮世か

Is that this world?

見てはいけない　西空見れば

If I look at the west sky that I shouldn't see

江戸へ江戸へひと刷毛(はけ)　あかね雲

A painted red cloud goes to Edo

「佐原囃子が聴えてくらあ、想い出すなア…、

I hear the Sawara Bayashi festival, I remember

御玉ヶ池の千葉道場か、うふ…。

Chiba's dojo at the Otamagaike lake

平手造酒も、今じゃやくざの用心棒、

Miki Hirate now is a Yakuza bodyguard

人生裏街道の枯落葉か。」

A withered leaf in the byroad of life

義理の義理の夜風に　さらされて

Exposed to the honorable night wind

月よお前も　泣きたかろ

Moon, you want to cry

こゝろみだれて

My heart feels confused

抜いたすすきを　奥歯で噛んだ

I bit the pulled grass

男男泪(なみだ)の　落し差し

And took my sword by the chest with tears

「止めて下さるな、妙心殿。落ちぶれ果てても平手は

Don't stop me Nun Myoshin. Even if Hirate falls and dies,

武士じゃ男の散りぎわは　知って居り申す、

He's a warrior who only knows his time to die

行かねばならぬそこをどいて下され、

I must go there, go away

行かねばならぬのだ。」

I must go there.

瞼(まぶた)瞼ぬらして　大利根の

The Tone river wets my eyelids

水に流した　夢いくつ

How many dreams were washed away?

息をころして

Holding my breath

地獄まいりの　冷酒のめば

When I drink cold sake visiting hell

鐘が鐘が鳴る鳴る　妙円寺

The bells will ring in Myoenji