English lyrics
Refrain:
Arirang, Arirang, Arariyo,
Arirang Pass is the long road you go.
후렴:
아리랑 아리랑 아라리요
아리랑 고개로 넘어간다.
1st Verse:
If you leave and forsake me, my own,
Ere three miles you go, lame you’ll have grown.
2nd Verse:
Wondrous time, happy time—let us delay;
Till night is over, go not away.
3rd Verse:
Arirang Mount is my Tear-Falling Hill,
So seeking my love, I cannot stay still.
4th Verse:
The brightest of stars stud the sky so blue;
Deep in my bosom burns bitterest rue.
5th Verse:
Man’s heart is like water streaming downhill;
Woman’s heart is well water—so deep and still.
6th Verse:
Young men’s love is like pinecones seeming sound,
But when the wind blows, they fall to the ground.
7th Verse:
Birds in the morning sing simply to eat;
Birds in the evening sing for love sweet.
8th Verse:
When man has attained to the age of a score,
The mind of a woman should be his love.
9th Verse:
The trees and the flowers will bloom for aye,
But the glories of youth will soon fade away.