(Mandarin Chinese: 媽媽請你也保重), or "Mama, Please Take Care" is a cover of the 1957 Japanese song "Though We Came to Tokyo" (Japanese: 俺らは東京へ來たけれど), originally composed by Shinichi Nozaki (野崎真一), with lyrics by Takashi Kojima (小島高志), and originally sung by Hideo Fujishima (藤島桓夫).
The song was originally composed by Shinichi Nozaki, lyrics by Takashi Kojima, and originally sung by Huanfu Fujishima, and lyrics were written by Taiwanese musician Wen Hsia in 1959, describing the sadness of a young man from a rural village who leaves his home to fight for his life in the city, and his mother's heart when he is in a foreign land.
[1] Chen Cheng, President of the Taiwan Provincial Government and Commander-in-Chief of the National Police promulgated martial law in 1949 until 1987 when President Chiang Ching-kuo declared that martial law would be lifted and formally terminated.
During the martial law period, the Nationalist government restricted people's freedoms and basic human rights, including the rights to assembly, association, speech, and publication, as well as banned political parties and newspapers.
[6][5][4][7][8] It describes the helplessness and vicissitudes of life of a traveler who works alone in the city, evokes the nostalgia for his mother and his hometown,[9] and portrays the loneliness and anxiety of men and women in the rural areas of the province who have left their home towns alone to work for a living.