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Satsuma Sa

さつまさ

[Genre]Jiuta
[Style]Kouta

Satsuma Sa appears on the following albums

Album Artist
Play ButtonTraditional Music of Japan, The - 03
Satsuma sa is another example of a very short song of Kouta accompanied by a Shamisen tuned in Niagari.
The text relates:
To Satsuma-
To Satsuma
I scull my boat as fast as I can
But the tide
Why, it's dead low
And my oar does me no good.
(Translation by Dr. Richard N. McKinnon, University of Washington, Seattle, U. S. A.)