Man Songs
Saturday, December 27th, 2008In other words, it’s “nan ren ge” in mandarin.. or so I’d lead you to believe with my limited china skills. I’m half assedly practicing a mandarin song for Dustin for when we go karaoke for his going away thing. He’ll be leaving for multi years and won’t be around for when I’m finally conversational in mandarin and can battle him when singing songs, so as his parting gift, i’ll make him look the fool at his own game in a language i can barely mimic.
The song is by Anson Hu and is about a bunch of guys that get off work, but instead of going home, they hole themselves up in a karaoke room and sing all night. The “man songs” they sing, are things that they can’t talk about in any real conversation because they have 2 too many testicles. At least, that’s my take on it from what I can shittily translate.
