Reichu wrote:マリ「しあわっせはーあるいってこないだーからあるいってゆっくんだねーん
　　　いっちにっちいっぽみーかでさんぽ　さーんぽすすんでにっほさっがるー
　　　じーんせいはっわんつー！ぱんち・・・
Mari: (singing) ♪　Happiness doesn't walk to me, because I'm walking to it. One day, one step. Three steps in three days. Three steps forward, two steps back. Life's a one-two punch... ♪

[color=blue][Mari's singing "The 356-Step March" by Kiyoko Suizenji. (Thanks for sending me the song, SSD. Made things a lot easier.) The part Mari sings goes:

Shiawase wa aruite konai, dakara aruite yuku 'n da ne
Ichinichi, ippo. Mikka de sanpo. Sanpo susunde, niho sagaru
Jinsei wa, one-two-panchi...

Ark wrote:So is it like a children's song or something?

Suizenji-san sings an Enka style which sounds a bit "post-war" to me. I can't tell how old these songs really are, but they don't sound like they are from the 90's. Also, she uses rhythm strongly, and in fact, some of her songs sound like rousing marches, almost. Her voice sometimes punches out stressed notes very hard. I found her singing a little hard to get used to, though I really liked two songs on this album.

I get the impression that her songs are meant for sing-along. Notice the fist she holds in the picture on the album. In performance, her songs are more in the style of the "work song", a variety of enka which is seemingly related to work songs done in the country. Such songs were intended to be rousing and energizing.

soul.assasin wrote:OBTW, the link to the Youtube clip has been destroyed due to copyright infringement.

Hyper Shinchan wrote:While talking with ath he pointed out that Cutie Honey (in Anno's live action movie) sings the same song that Mari is singing at the beginning of the Rebuild 2.22; has it been already noticed by anyone else?