Lyrics and translation D - 狐塚

狐塚

紅い鼻緒 千切れて
千里向こうの山颪(やまおろし)
逢う魔が時 影法師
朽ち葉舞いて冬近し

彩なす灯が宵を迎へ
儚き蝋は野に消ゆ

いづれ皆散るが定めならば
母は誰を憎めばいいのですか
裂くのならばいっそ わたくしめも
揺れる南天の実がまたひとつ

降りし雨が雪となりても
「今来む」と言へずに

嘆かわしきかな 乱世の魂(たま)
思へど想へども 摘み取られ
焦がれ悲しめど涙は出ぬ
掛けた画(おもて)の下 泣いています

笹舟よ 愛し子何処(いづこ)へ去(い)ぬる
我が手に抱けずに ああ 幾年(いくとせ)...

Fox Mound

The red thong snapped
A mountain squall from a thousand leagues away
The twilight hour, a shadow
Fallen leaves dance, winter approaches

The colored lanterns welcome the evening
The ephemeral candle fades in the field

If all things must eventually scatter
Mother, who should I hate?
If you must tear it, then take me too
Another nanten berry shakes loose

The rain becomes snow
But I cannot say "I am coming now"

Alas, the soul in troubled times
I yearn and think, but I am plucked away
I burn with longing, but no tears come
I weep beneath the portrait I painted

Paper boat, where has my beloved child gone?
I could not hold you in my arms. Ah, how many years...