【日本軍歌】雪の進軍

武運長久 ———————————— lyrics Marching in the snow, stepping on ice We can't even tell passages from rivers The horses are beaten, but we can't leave them Just what is this place? It's all enemy territory It can't be helped, so I took a cigarette break But how unreliable, there are only two cigarettes We eat dried fish and half-cooked rice Barely alive, meanwhile For this cold can't be endured with just a bonfire It will definitely smoke but the wet wood burns Putting on a sour face, saying the stories of valor The "sour" thing here's a pickled plum The clothes we wear are our carefree beds We cover under our overcoats on knapsack pillows With the warmth of our backs, the snow thaws Soaking wet our millet-husk bedding We can't dream of dreaming in the bivouacs The moon peeks into, coldly As we came here in debt of our lives We charged with death resolution If luck dictates we should die in battle The cotton of our donated winter clothes, woven with duty Slowly, surely, tightens against my neck Anyhow, the superiors won't let us go home alive