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GUEST,Haruo	Hotaru no hikari (Japanese) (3)	Hotaru no hikari	19 Mar 24
"Hotaru no hikari" ("Light (or Glow) of the Fireflies") is a Japanese song, first published in 1881, sung to the tune generally thought of nowadays as "Auld Lang Syne" (though we shapenote folks call it "Plenary" and it had other names before Robbie Burns wrote "Should auld acquaintance be forgot". Anyhow, I'm interested in knowing if there's a singing translation in English (or Lowland Scots, or any other language for that matter). Wikipedia gives a literal translation, but it's not really singable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotaru_no_Hikari There's a 7-shape shapenote setting of it at https://rosharuo.neocities.org/Sankta%20Harmonio/inbound/PLENARY%20Hotaru%20no%20hikari.jpg if you'd like to look at it.

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