Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

Author:Kenzaburo Oe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780802195401
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

It is now seven or eight years since a young Korean woman paid me a visit to deliver a request from a writer in Seoul on her way to New York. Her errand required only a brief conversation, and when it was time for her to leave, the person she was to see next who had arranged to pick her up at my house failed to appear. He was a Korean resident in Japan, and I knew his name, but he was not the sort of person whose address was available so there was no way I could take her to him. The hour was already late, and as the young woman began to show signs of real distress, Eeyore came up with a game to keep her entertained. She spoke no Japanese, but when she sang stanzas from Korean songs, Eeyore would play them on the piano and add chords to the melodies. During and after our conversation the young woman had seemed guarded, an almost stern expression on her face, but gradually she became caught up in the game, adjusting the pitch on Eeyore's bongo drums, his favorite instrument when he was young, and thumping out Korean rhythms along with his piano.

The young woman went on her way to America, and a number of Korean folk songs and melodies that were based on them remained in Eeyore's repertoire. Presently, I added lyrics to one of the melodies he liked to play. As the result was a simple ditty, I'd like to print it with the musical symbol at the beginning of each line that we used to see in popular magazines just after the war when they published a hit tune.

♪Don't fret. Nothing to fear

Not when my dear boy Eeyore is here—♪

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