In this case, both version are folk song feel and story-telling song, Cantonese version retains the folk song feeling plus adding local Chinese meaningful lyrics with folk song way of singing
this is not Cantonese nor English nor Japanese but Philipino
Although I don't know any Philippine language at all, this song melody and feeling sound very countryside and peaceful, our ALBERT AU version is good too to talk about how great if we can get back to basic countryside life