At Japanese Baptist's annual sukiyaki dinner a couple weeks ago, one of the songs performed during the after-dinner show (by a quintet of young ladies from the Nichigo congregation) was "A Big Old Clock", a recent Japanese popular song that is basically just an adaptation (to the usual tune) of the Work song, by Kougo Hotomi (here's the text, romanized, with English retrotranslation [unromanized here]). The Japanese version omits the third verse of the original (about servants), while the retrotranslater's English text omits the fourth verse.

"Tick tock" comes out sounding for all the world like "Chick talk". It was hilarious, even the non-Japonophones enjoyed it.

Haruo