A fun and upbeat concert arrangement of this very well-known Taiwanese folk song, for T.B.B. choir with piano accompaniment. This arrangement features the Hokkien text (in Chinese characters and with an English-alphabet transliteration).
The English translation of this song is as follows:
The sky is getting dark, the rain is coming.
Grandfather lifts his hoe to dig for taro.
Dig and dig. Dig and dig. He dug and found a slippery eel.
“Ee yah heh doh” – really interesting!
Grandpa wants to cook with salt, Grandma wants to cook it bland.
The two of them fight and they break the pot.
“Ee yah heh doh long dong chi dong chiang, wa ha ha, wa ha ha!”.
