Tôi mồ côi cha năm hai tuổi Mẹ tôi thương con không lấy chồng Trồng dâu, nuôi tằm, dệt vải Nuôi tôi đến ngày lớn khôn. "When I was two years old, my father ceased to be My mother has not remarried since, out of her love for me She since has grown mulberry, cared for silkworms, and weaved daily To bring me up until the day I have grown fully."

Cây chi cây lạ lùng / Không cành cũng không lá / Toàn những thân với thân! / Mà thân thì dựng ngược / A plant that is so strangely amazing / Which has neither branches nor leaves growing / It has only body upon body growing about / And each body is growing upside down