功夫在身 Kung Fu Fighting

Well the kids and I just had a snuggle on the couch together watching Kung Fu Panda 3 again. We ended up singing ‘Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting’ around the house in Chinese afterwards…so thought I would share this awesome Chinese version with you so you can do it too!

When the movie first came out we learned another one of the bilingual songs on the soundtrack,  ‘Try’ by Patrick Brasca and Jay Chou. By clicking on the link it will take you to our blog page where you can watch the video to this song, and get the lyrics.  It’s a bit of a challenging rap in Mandarin 🙂

But it’s the track that closes the movie that gets you doing those Kung Fu moves…yes we are all Dragon Warriors inside 🙂 The first movie closes with the song ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ too, but in Kung Fu Panda 3, Hans Zimmer has changed the music to it a little, and it is in Chinese 🙂 You can listen to it here, lyrics in both characters and pinyin to sing along are below the video 🙂 The second half of the song is in English.  I have made bold the 4 lines of the English part that are the ones that have been translated in the Chinese part.

Kung Fu in Mandarin Chinese is 功夫(gōng fu). Kung Fu Panda is 功夫熊猫(gōng fu xióng māo).

Woah ho ho oh Woah ho ho oh
每一个人都 功夫在身
努力寻找气之魂
虽然它有时 会让人慌神
却点亮 我的心灯
(
měi yī gè rén dōu gōng fu zài shēn
nǔ lì xún zhǎo qì zhī hún
suī rán tā yǒu shí huì ràng rén huāng shén
què diǎn liàng wǒ de xīn dēng)
Woah ho ho oh Woah ho ho oh
(Repeat) 

Everybody was Kung fu fighting
Our Chi is what we’re finding
I know it is a little bit frightening
Oh but it’s so enlightening
Before the battle of the fist
Comes the battle of the mind
When you don’t know who you are
Just look inside
When we move into the flow
We’re always gonna win
So feel the Power
And let it in
Woah ho ho oh Kung Fu Fighting
Woah ho ho oh What we’re finding
Woah ho ho oh Little bit Frightening
Woah ho ho oh So Enlightening Everybody was Kung fu fighting Heeeya

2 thoughts on “功夫在身 Kung Fu Fighting

  1. Donna you never cease to amaze me…how cool is this song, thank you for sharing woo ha here hooooo woah ho ho ho!

    • Thanks 🙂 I think Hans Zimmer and team deserve the credit 🙂 but we Chinese teachers can enjoy it with our students 🙂

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