浮雲遊子 [fú yún yóu zi] [English translation]

Shouldering a white backpack,

with swift footsteps I march on

I don’t know what is the end of the sky

I don’t know what is the sorrow of parting either.

The distant journey is endless.

I travel through night and day to the future.

I sing old time’s mountain song

and remember the home of my hometown

( I am like) a traveler like floating cloud

with hometown nostalgia packed in the traveling bag

Although with great effort I walk forward,

the nostalgia of hometown still came to my dreams.

• Artist:Chen Ming-Shao
• Album:浮雲遊子 (Taiwan, 1980)