Songs for Children Sung in Japan/Southerly Wind
Southerly Wind
Hakushū Kitahara
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When the southerly wind blows,
The fragrance of the grapefruit flowers fills the air.
In the night when the grapefruit flowers blossom,
The Milky Way is in the sky so white.
Three stars, four stars, seven stars—
Counting, drowsiness creeps on me.
Drowsing, drowsing, I am soon asleep;
Till the morn thus I sleep.
When the southerly wind blows,
The fragrance of the grapefruit flowers fills the air.