TUNE: PURE SERENE MUSIC

清平乐

The thatched roof slants low,

茅檐低小?

Beside the brook green grasses grow.

溪上青青草。

Who talks with drunken Southern voice to please?

醉里吴音相媚好，

White-haired man and wife at their ease.

白发谁家翁媪？

East of the brook their eldest son is hoeing weeds;

大儿锄豆溪东，

Their second son now makes a cage for hens he feeds.

中儿正织鸡笼。

How pleasant to see their spoiled youngest son who heeds

最喜小儿无赖，

Nothing but lies by brookside and pods lotus seeds!

溪头卧剥莲蓬。