Hokkien Singaporean Lullaby
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Hokkien Singaporean Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by Singapore’s Hokkien community, descendants of Fujianese immigrants who built the incense-filled Thian Hock Keng temple and the shophouses of Chinatown. Thian Hock Keng was built with tenon-and-mortise joinery instead of nails, its intricate woodwork and decorative materials shipped all the way from southern China, and though it now stands well inland, the temple originally sat right at the water’s edge, a reminder of how much of modern Singapore’s coastline has been created through land reclamation since. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Hokkien Singaporean Lullaby” Means
Singapore’s Hokkien community, descendants of Fujianese immigrants, built the incense-filled Thian Hock Keng temple and the shophouses of Chinatown that still stand today. This original lullaby draws on those lantern-lit and temple-street images of Hokkien Singaporean life.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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