Yun Sim-deok

'Hymn of Death'
'Hymn to Death' -or Praise of Death / Psalm of Death- (original melody based on Ivanovici's
'Danube Waltz'), was recorded in 1926 and is the first Korean 'pop' record, not based on
traditional Korean music. The singer Yun Sim Deok (first woman soprano to achieve fame
throughout Korea) whilst in Japan met and fell in love with a Korean man, but he had a wife
and children. The two took a steam ship back to Korea, but ended their lives by jumping
into the sea.

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View original song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG4Lol...
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First verse: - Through the vast wilderness, in this life of

uncertainties - You are running, yet where are you going?
- In this lonely world, through the rough seas,
- What are you searching for? Chorus: This world that will become tears, will everything end if I die?
- Those lives searching for happiness, it is really sadness that you are seeking
for.

Second verse: - Those smiling flowers, and those crying

birds, - Their destinies would all be the same.
- Engrossed in living this miserable life, - You
are the one dancing on the blade of a knife. Chorus:
- This world that will become tears, will everything end if I die?
- Those lives searching for happiness, it is really sadness that you are
seeking for.

Third verse: - This far-flung life that has fallen to vanity,

- You are being deceived, don't you know?
- Everything in this world to you is emptiness; - After
you die, nothing exists anymore. Chorus: - This
world that will become tears, will everything end if I die?
- Those lives searching for happiness, it is really sadness that you are seeking for.

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Yun Sim-deok (1897-1926)
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmOwel6jZU