Children's Songs Concerned With Clock

Today's theme is children's songs concerned with clocks. I'll introduce three songs below.


The first one is "Grand Father's Clock", 『大きな古時計』 in Japanese. There are some differences between the original poem and Japanese poem and what I found most interesting is that the age of the grandfather. In the original one, the grand father is ninety years old but in Japanese one, he is one hundred years old. This is just because the sound, or the rhythm, of "ninety years" sounds unpleasant when it is pronounced in Japanese one. Also, this song became more popular since 2002 because Ken Hirai, a famous Japanese singer sang it and about 900000 CDs were sold.

Ken Hirai ver.

mito feat. Mayuko Kishi ver. (I like this one better.)

The second one is "Clock's Song", 『とけいのうた』in Japanese. In this poem, the minute hand is used as a metaphor of an adult, and the hour hand is for a child. As the time passes, an adult and a child meet and part again and again on the dial plate. So cute poem!! 

"Clock's Song"

The last one is "A Whale's Clock", 『くじらのとけい』in Japanese. A whale is "kujira" in Japanese, and "kuji" means nine o'clock. So, in this song, whenever a whale is asked "what time is it?", the whale has no way other than to answer "It's nine." 

Drunk people are singing, so, little bit difficult to listen...(-_-)

But they really sounds happy!!