こんにちは！
Hellos and welcome, dear readers!
動画は投稿してるのにブログで
歌詞のせ忘れてるのとか見つけて
えっちらおっちら、なんとか動画投稿に
追い付こうとしてるタカペンです！
For the past several months, I've actually been uploading English cover videos on YouTube but been forgetting to create the blog entries for the English lyrics! So I'm going to try to catch up on those blog entries, now that my shoulder's much better!
今回は6月に投稿してた『ハナミズキ』です！
This entry is for a video I uploaded back in June!
- 動画詳細 / About the Video
- ギター弾き語り / Playing the Guitar
- 背景写真＆動画 / Background Pics & Video
- 英語歌詞 / English Lyrics
動画詳細 / About the Video
原曲
Original Song Credits
Lyrics: Yo Hitoto
Composed by: Tatsuro Mashiko
Arr. by: Satoshi Takebe
カバー
MIX：＿Soma様
英訳・ギター・ボーカル：タカペン
Cover Credits
MIX: _Soma
Translation/Guitar/Vocal: Taka Pen
ギター弾き語り / Playing the Guitar
3月頭にギターの練習を始めてから
6月に録画しているので、
ギターを始めてから3ヶ月過ぎた頃ですね！
I started playing guitar back in March, and this video was recorded around early June, so just about three months since I started playing. :)
ピックでストロークの練習を始めてみた頃です♪
正直何やってるのかまだまだよくわかってないですが
ギターってピックなんでしょ！？精神です
This was when I started practicing with the guitar pick. I still have no idea how a guitar is properly played, but my image of a guitar is people strumming with their picks. lol
3ヶ月も続けるとありがたいことに
左手の指先にタコができて、弦を抑えても
もう痛くありませんでした！！
By this time, I've been practicing enough so that the tips of my left fingers were no longer hurting from the guitar strings.
左手でギターコードを抑えて
右手でストロークして
がちょっぴり馴染んできた感じの頃です
This was when I think I kind of started feeling comfortable holding down the chords with my left fingers and strumming with my right hand. Kind of. Not by much since I wasn't able to play the guitar at all when I was in Japan for two weeks in May! lol
背景写真＆動画 / Background Pics & Video
4月からずっとこの曲を練習していて、背景に使う
ハナミズキの写真か映像が欲しいなぁ、
でも日本じゃないとないんだろうなぁ
5月日本に行く頃にうまくハナミズキ咲いてるかなぁ
と調べたところ
I started practicing this song in April, and I was wondering what to use for the background image/video. I thought "hanamizuki" was a Japanese tree so I was thinking maybe I'd try taking pictures when I would be going to Japan in May.
なのでずっと目を皿のようにして探し回って
なんとか映像や写メを撮ることができました！
But lo and behold, turns out that "hanamizuki", or the flowering dogwood, is a tree native to the U.S. lol
So once I knew what they were supposed to look like, I could swear I'd seen them around, so I looked for them everywhere and was able to take pics and shoot some video clips as well!
スマホを置く場所もなくて手で持って上に
かざしながらなのでちょっとプルプルしてますが（笑）
Although the place I found the dogwood trees, there was nowhere to place the phone so I had to hold it up myself making the video a bit wobbly... lol
英語歌詞 / English Lyrics
The Flowering Dogwood
Pushing up against the sky
You’re reaching with your hand, I remember one May
Won’t you please, I wish you would come
Won’t you please come over to the water side
A flower bud, I would give to you
A flowering dogwood from the garden
Blushing in a shade of pale crimson, my darling
May your dreams that know no boundaries
May you see through to the end
That you and your loved one
May you go on to last for a hundred years
The summer, it’s way too hot
And my feelings for you, they’re a little way too heavy
To cross over together
That would mean the boat would surely go under
Please go on, ahead of me
Go on ahead, don’t look back on me
Everything I’m holding in
May they bear fruit one day
And the waves that know no boundaries
May they come to a full stop
That you and your loved one
May you go on to last for a hundred years
Running after a fluttering butterfly I see
you waving high a bright white sail
Won’t you please send over a leaf
from a flowering dogwood when it’s Mother’s Day
There’s no need for you to wait
There’s no need for you to know
Blushing in a shade of pale crimson, my darling
May your dreams that know no boundaries
May you see through to the end
That you and your loved one
May you go on to last for a hundred years
Everything I’m holding in
May they bear fruit one day
And the waves that know no boundaries
May they come to a full stop
That you and your loved one
May you go on to last for a hundred years
That you and your loved one
May you go on to last for a hundred years
