The Hirokazu Tanaka Song in English!

Hirokazu Tanaka was one of the main composers for Earthbound (SNES, 1995). He recently composed a song called The Hirokazu Tanaka song which is about how he is named Hirokazu Tanaka and how he didn't have a choice on being named so. He also got 10 other people named Hirokazu Tanaka to sing it with him.

Original description:
"Tanaka Hirokazu no Uta" is a bizarre new single from video game music composer Hirokazu Tanaka responsible for Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Mario, Mother, Metroid, and many other classic video game sound tracks as well as the anime series Pokemon. This song is performed by ten other people in addition to the composer, all named Hirokazu Tanaka. The music is reminiscent of Hirokazus work on the Mother series, providing an upbeat, chiptune-esque backdrop for the surreal sound of an 11-Tanaka chorus singing about being named Hirokazu Tanaka. The song talks about how the name was picked for them and that they didn't pick the name themselves. This single was released one week early on HearJapan.

I originally grabbed it from here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gISEoMIe3c&feature=player_embedded

Lyrics:

We are Tanaka Hirokazu!
We never asked to be called by this name
(never asked)
Before we knew it that's just what we were called
(were we?)
Tanaka Hirokazu knows Tanaka Hirokazu
oh yeah!
All called the same name
every one of them like me
But there's only one of me in the whole wide world
hey!
Tanaka Hirokazu
Come together for the sake of a name!
It's not like we found this name all by ourselves
(it's not like that)
Someone with the same name just called us that
(they did, they did!)
Tanaka Hirokazu meets Tanaka Hirokazu
oh yeah!
All called the same name
everyone of them like me
but there's only one me in the whole wide world
hey!
Tanaka Hirokazu
Come together for the sake of a name!
We never really wanted to be called by this name
(hello, I'm Tanaka Hirokazu)
but when we're in the same place
that's what we're all called
(all of us!)
Tanaka Hirokazu finds Tanaka Hirokazu
oh yeah!
All called the same name
everyone of them like me
But there's only one of me in the whole wide world
hey!
Tanaka Hirokazu
Forever and for always for a name!
Come together for the sake of a name!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Hirokazu
• Tanaka
• song
• Earthbound
• SNES
• old
• school
• funny
• cul
• cool

[Individuo80]

japan.flv

[userofdoom]

@Individuo80 okay.jpg

[mattuiop]

THIS IS WHY I LOVE JAPAN! ^_^

[userofdoom]

@mattuiop d(^_^)b outplayed, good sir

[Posetus]

ö_Õ

[userofdoom]

@Posetus :D btw random comment here I'm glad this got nearly 3K views :D

[Endisaster]

Uhuhuhuhuhu ;;; u ;;; Holy moly MOLIES

this makes happy tears come out of my eyes, this is the cutest best thing ever. So silly. Holy fuck hip tanaka I love you forever nao * A *

[airn09]

LOL i could not stop laughing at the guy with the tux face at 2:32

[TreeSamuel]

I... I can't stop listening to this song. It's so catchy.

[userofdoom]

@Normal1S :3

[Normal1S]

Are you freaking serious?! This is hilarious!

I kinda knew he had a quirky sense of humor by the t-shirts he wears. . .