The lyrics of "Rock-'n'-roll kenchou-shozaichi" have no meaning. The names
of prefectures and cities are listed from the north to the south.
This song will be highly valuable in studying Japanese geography.
(Special products of some cities are shown in parentheses. For example,
Sapporo is famous for SAPPORO-RAMEN.)
Note by HIRANO Makoto
Rock-'n'-roll kenchou-shozaichi.
Hokkaido wa Sapporo. Otsugi wa (SAPPORO-RAMEN)
Aomori, Akita ni, Iwate no Morioka. (Wankosoba Wankosoba)
Fukushima, Yamagata, Miyagi wa Sendai. (Sasakama Sasakama)
Ibaragi no Mito ni, Tochigi wa Utsunomiya. (Shimotsukare Shimotsukare)
Saitama wa Urawa, Yamanashi wa Kofu. (Houtou Houtou)
Gunma no Maebashi, Kanagawa no Yokohama. (Shuumai Shuumai)
Chiba ni, Tokyo. Nagano ni, Shizuoka. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa no Ka
nazawa.
Aichi wa Nagoya. Gifu to Fukui.
Mie wa Tsu ni, Shiga wa Otsu. (Funazushi Funazushi)
Wakayama, Kyoto ni, Nara ni, Osaka. (Takoyaki Takoyaki)
Hyogo wa Kobe de, Okayama, Hiroshima. (Namagaki Namagaki)
Shimane no Matsue ni, Tottori, Yamaguchi. (Fugusashi Fugusashi)
Kagawa no Takamatsu, Ehime no Matsuyama. (Iyokan Iyokan)
Tokushima, Kochi ni, Fukuoka, Oita. (Shiroshitakarei)
Saga ni, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, soshite Kagoshima. Okinawa no Naha.
Rock-'n'-roll Kenchou-shozaichi.

Romanization of the Japanese & translation into English ©
by HIRANO Makoto
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