Everywhere the erhu all about the street oh the whole street singing.
Everywhere the peddlers all about the street the great big sky.
Everywhere the daughters all about the street each one named Jade Orchid.
Everywhere the aunties all about the street all with eager faces.
Everywhere good people all about the street but this isn’t heaven.
Each and every bad man always ends up lonely.
On each head of each believer a little white cap.
The nonbelievers sneak off too with their bowls in hand.
Everywhere little birds all about the city hungering for mutton.
Thirty thousand lambs and lambs stampeding to the city.
When the donkeys see it they break out in cold sweat.
Streams of donkey piss trickling down the street.
So if you pee in public you descend from donkeys,
Just like if you are insolent you were raised by horses.
But the deceitful and the harmful what about them?
I say they must have grown up in a pack of mules.
Boys and girls hold hands they’re wearing faded colors.
The drinking and the swearing are ancestral tradition.
Each and every Audi A6 is driving to the Han Dynasty.
Newly produced old tricycles come with electric motors.
All the dazzling sunlight all the driving rain,
Chives and sandy scallion all a vigorous green.
The pigheaded Yellow River never looks back.
If you’re feeling happy kid then open your mouth and howl.
Open your mouth and howl kid if you aren’t happy.
You won’t be depressed kid living without a heart.
Mahjong games throughout the city suddenly break out.
The next generation on the street can never get enough.
August 19, 2014
