A 92-year-old gentleman named Hsiao can neither play an instrument nor sing many ketzai tunes, but alone, to the rhythm of a poem he learned in his village school, he chants out ketzai lyrics that have been enlarged on a copier, loudly singing of the stories, romance and youth of his generation.
九十二歲的蕭老先生不會吹拉彈唱，也不會許多歌仔調，就只用從私塾學來的吟詩調，一個人念著影印放大的歌仔冊，大聲唱著他們那個時代的故事、風情和青春。