Mandarin Chinese Song: Mo Li Hua

 

Composer: Alexia Sloane, 14

 

Title of Mandarin Chinese Song: Mo Li Hua

 

Singer : Nicole Ming Hui Puah

 

Words and English translation :

 

Hao yi duo mei li di mo li hua

What a beautiful jasmin flower

 

Hao yi duo mei li di mo li hua

What a beautiful jasmin flower

 

Fen fang mei li man zhi ya

Sweet-smelling, beautiful and stems full of buds

 

You xiang you bai ren ren kua

Fragrant, white, praised by everybody

 

Rang wo lai Jiang ni zhai xia

Let me pluck you

 

Song gei ni ren jia

And give you to someone

 

Mo li hua yao mo li hua

Jasmin flower o jasmin flower

 

Hao yi duo mei li di mo li hua

What a beautiful jasmin flower

 

Hao yi duo mei li di mo li hua

What a beautiful jasmin flower

 

Fen fang mei li man zhi ya

Sweet-smelling, beautiful and stems full of buds

 

You xiang you bai ren ren kua

Fragrant, white, praised by everybody

 

Bu rang shui ba xin zhai xia

Not letting anyone to win my heart

 

Jiu deng na yi ge ren ai ya

Waiting to be loved by that one person

 

Mo li hua ya mo li hua

Jasmin flower o jasmine flower

 

Shui dang wo qing ren mo li hua

Who is to be my beloved, jasmin flower

 

Ni shuo wo zhen hao shen me dou hao

You say that everything about me is fine

 

Shui dang wo qing ren

Who is to be my beloved

 

Zuo meng dou hui xiao

Smiling in my dreams

 

Wo wang zhe chuang wai de jie jiao

I look to the street corner outside the window

 

Kan dao xin suan zou lai xing fu zou diao

And I see a heart of sorrows, happiness gone

 

Ni shuo wo zhen hao bi shui dou hao

You say I am so fine, finer than everybody

 

You shi he de ren

If there is someone suitable

 

Yao bang wo jie shao

That you will introduce to me

 

Ru guo wo zhen de na me hao

If I am really so fine

 

Ni wei shen me bu yao

Why don’t you want me?

 

Wei shen me bu yao

Why don’t you want me?

 

Hao yi duo mei li di mo li hua

What a beautiful jasmin flower

 

Hao yi duo mei li di mo li hua

What a beautiful jasmin flower

 

Fen fang mei li man zhi ya

Sweet-smelling, beautiful and stems full of buds

 

You xiang you bai ren ren kua

Fragrant, white, praised by everybody

 

Mo li hua ya mo li hua

Jasmin flower o jasmine flower