The singers chant the poem of torimono, 'Mountains seem to be fog, because the vines of spindle trees over the hill colored' which is one of the kami asobi no uta (poems for singing and dancing in front of a deity) in Kokin Wakashu (A Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poetry).
古今和歌集神遊の歌の中の採物の歌である「みやまには霧ふるらし外山なる真柝の葛色づきにけり」を歌う。