You who will listen to these songs, These songs of a new age
 Know that for 5000 years
 No one could have said these words.
 But I came, me the mandarin
 To tell you them.
 Each song is a man's story;
 It is also the history of humanity.
 The voices and the music will speak to you
 Of joy and sorrow
 Of love and hate,
 Of life and death,
 And above all hope...
 It's hope for tomorrow,
 hope for man
 And hope for the earth.
 All this is the beautiful history of the world;
 He's a wise old man
 Who taught it to me, the Mandarin
 Now listen, listen...