Kane-Maki-Odori Uta

("Bell-wrapping-dance song."--Province of Iga--Naga district)

A Yamabushi of Kyoto went to Kumano. There resting in the inn Chojaya, by the beach of Shirotaka, he saw a little girl three years old; and he petted and hugged her, playfully promising to make her his wife,--

(Chorus) Playfully promising.

Thereafter that Yamabushi travelled in various provinces; returning only when that girl was thirteen years old. "O my princess, my princess!" he cried to her,--"my little princess, pledged to me by promise!"--"O Sir Yamabushi," made she answer,--"good Sir Yamabushi, take me with you now!--

"Take me with you now!"

"O soon," he said, "I shall come again; soon I shall come again: then, when I come again, I shall take you with me,--

"Take you with me."

Therewith the Yamabushi, escaping from her, quickly, quickly fled away;--with all haste he fled away. Having passed through Tanabe and passed through Minabe, he fled on over the Komatsu moor,--

Over the Komatsu moor.