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run after the silverfish and bite their tails ― and the toads with big bellies ― cry kurkuà kurkuà.
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東嶽廟
東廟下
東廟下有個墪兒
蹲着個金眼緑毛龜兒
解南來了個鬼兒
挑着一担水兒
擱下水兒撿根棍兒
單打金眼緑毛龜兒的腿兒
NOTES
東嶽 tung1 yü4 one of the five sacred mountains, the 泰山 t'ai4 shan1, in the Shantung province. 墪兒 tun1'r， a small earth moud. Each verse ends with the character 兒 eur[1]， which gives fun to the song.
TRANSLATION
In the temple of mount T'ai-shan 一 under the east verandah ― under the east verandah there is an earth mound ― on which squats a turtle with golden eyes and a shell covered with green moss — from the south has come a devil ― bearing on his
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