TUNE: PHOENIX HAIRPIN

钗头凤

Pink hands so fine,

红酥手，

Gold-branded wine,

黄酒，

Spring paints the willows green palace walls can’t confine.

满城春色官墙柳。

East wind unfair,

东风恶，

Happy times rare.

欢情薄。

In my heart sad thoughts throng;

一怀愁绪，

We’ve severed for years long.

几年离索。

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

错，错，错！

Spring is as green,

春如旧，

In vain she’s lean.

人空瘦，

Her kerchief soaked with tears and red with stains unclean.

泪痕红浥鲛绡透。

Peach blossoms fall

桃花落，

Near deserted hall.

闲池阁。

Our oath is still there. Lo!

山盟虽在，

No words to her can go.

锦书难托。

No, no, no!

莫，莫，莫！