Now what is that in the river I see?

It's the rosiest peach in the whole of Japan;

And it's coming a-floating, a-floating to me.

"Now, here is a feast for my darling old man,

Oh, the great Shogun not a finer can get!

Some stewed lily-bulbs, and this beautiful peach,

When he comes home from work, before

him I'll set."

Soon down from the mountain the old man

came,