Who am I

Lyrics: Qin Jijie

Recitation: Students from Zhiquan School and Tongxin Experimental School

If somebody asked me yesterday,

Who am I,

I would not answer,

For I was afraid that,

City kids would laugh at me.

Their parents send them to school by car,

With horn blowing,

They drive Jetta,

Or Honda;

Our parents send us to school by tricycle,

In silence,

They peddle hard,

Being spattered with water and mud.

Our campus is very small,

Cannot even accommodate a side horse;

Our classroom is very dark,

A light ball with 5 watt only offers dim light;

Our desks and chairs are very old,

They shake and “crack”;

But we do our homework well,

And we study hard.

2008 of Beijing,

2008 of everyone,

Teachers are composing music for it,

Students are drawing pictures for it,

The teacher said:

“Don’t be afraid, Don’t be afraid

Like the city children,

We, migrant children, are also

Flowers of the nation,

Children of China,

Under the same sky living in the capital”

Don’t be afraid, Don’t be afraid,

Tell loudly what you really want to say

If you ask me what I really want to say

I love my Mama,

I love my Papa,

Because

Mama sweeps the ever broadening city streets,

Papa builds the high-rises in Beijing.