Boku wa Kuma - ぼくはくま

ぼくはくま (meaning "I am a Bear") is a children's song by Utada Hikaru.  The worksheet on this page provides the lyrics in hiragana for hiragana reading practice, with a romaji version and an English translation of the lyrics.  The hiragana lyrics are also printed in gray, so that you can trace them to practice and improve your handwriting in hiragana.

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You may have noticed that the lyrics shown on the screen are slightly different from the lyrics in the worksheet.  This is because the worksheet is completely in hiragana (except for English loanwords in katakana), while a few of the words on screen are in kanji:

車 - kuruma, くるま in hiragana [car]
歩 - aru, ある in hiragana [to walk]
踊 - odo, おど in hiragana [to dance]
歌 - uta, うた in hiragana [to sing]
海老 - ebi, えび in hiragana [shrimp]
冬 - fuyu, ふゆ in hiragana [winter]
夜 - yoru, よる in hiragana [night]
朝 - asa, あさ in hiragana [morning]

To get the original lyrics with kanji, go to Cori's Jpop Lyrics Homepage!