Japanese
Rōmaji
狭い此の世で犇めきて
同じ頭を愛でたり貶したり
餅屋が描く枕絵
絵師が搗く黍餅
掛け違えた看板
仕舞う暇もありゃしない
狸囃子は馬鹿囃子
手前知らねど祭りの渦の中
女郎が釣る太刀魚
魚屋が焼く焼き餅
取り違えた看板
返す気すら失せたら
団団 狸の腹 ぽくぽくと
冉冉 其の気の面 しゃあしゃあと
万万 狸の場 ぞろぞろと
転転 礫の如
其れが狸だぁよ
山師が守る本丸
守衛が張る博奕
生き別れた本分
改む気はありゃせぬ
団団 狸の腹 ぽくぽくと
冉冉 其の気の面 然ればよ
絶対 狸の場 ぞろぞろと
手ん手ん ねまりの 極
其れが狸だ 彼も狸だ 皆狸だぁよ
English Translation
All crowded in this small world
Loving and abusing the same head
A rice cake maker drawing erotic pictures
A painter making rice cakes
Hung up the wrong signs
No time to close up shop
The tanuki-bellies drum festal music
Unwittingly you're in the bustle of the festival
A prostitute fishing hairtails
A fishmonger showing jealousy
Mixed-up signs
No longer feel like returning them
Roly-poly tanuki belly pop pop
Bit by bit in the mood for it, shamelessly
Very much a tanuki garden, jam-packed
Go a-rollin' like a pebblestone
That's what a tanuki is!
A charlatan guarding the dungeon
A guard playing at dice
The duties separated at birth
Don't feel like correcting them
Roly-poly tanuki belly pop pop
Bit by bit in the mood for it, after all
Absolutely a tanuki garden, jam-packed
Each and all utterly sprawled
That's a tanuki, those are tanuki, everyone's a tanuki!