Daily Growing
Altan (爱尔兰传统民谣乐团)
The trees they grow high, the leaves they do grow green,
树已长高,叶子已变绿
Many is the time my true love I've seen,
许多我所看到的就如我的爱人
Many an hour I have watched him all alone,
许多时候我都在孤单的注视着他
He's young but he's daily growing.
他很年轻但他在一天天长大
Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong,
父亲,亲爱的父亲, 你犯了一个很大的错误
You have married me to a boy who is too young,
你把我嫁给了一个那么小的男孩
I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen,
我已经24了而他才14岁
He's young but he's daily growing.
他很小, 但我想他会日渐长大
Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong,
女儿, 我亲爱的女儿,我没有做错
I have married you to a great lord's son,
我把你嫁给了一个显耀贵族的儿子
He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone,
有一天当我不在了他会很好的照顾你
He's young but he's daily growing
他现在很年轻,但他会一天天长大
Father, dear father, if you see fit,
父亲,父亲,如果你认为可以
We'll send him to college for another year yet,
在来年我们把他送到大学去
I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head,
我会为他裹上蓝色的头巾
To let the maidens know that he is married.
让别人知道他已经结婚了
One day I was looking over my father's castle wall,
一天我从父亲的城墙看过去
I spied all the boys playing with a ball,
我看到男孩们正在打球
And my own true love was the flower of them all,
而我的爱人是当中的皎皎
He's young but he's daily growing.
他现在很年轻但他在一天天长大
And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,
如此的早,在拂晓时分
They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play,
他们来到草地上运动 玩耍
And what they did there she never would declare,
他们所做的她永远也不会说
But she never more complained of his growing.
但是现在她永远也不能再嘟哝他的成长
At the age of fourteen he was a married man,
14岁,他已经结婚
At the age of fifteen the father of my son,
15岁,他已经是一个孩子的父亲
At the age of sixteen his grave it was green,
16岁,他的坟墓已是郁郁苍苍
And death had put an end to his growing.
死亡给他的成长画上了句号
I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud,
我要给我的爱人买绒服, 给他做寿衣
With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down,
每缝一针,眼泪就流出来
With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow,
一针又一针, 我不知道如何控制我的泪水
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing.
也许是命运的捉弄, 就这样走完他的一生
歌曲背景：
一个女子在年轻的时候由于父亲的安排嫁给了一个显贵的子弟，她开始担心自己的年龄有一天会成为感情悲剧的主因，她埋怨父亲错误的将自己嫁给了一个 比她小很多的男子。婚后第二年，他们有了自己的孩子，而她的夫君却也还是一个孩子，在一天天的长大。她送他去上学，为他裹了蓝色的头巾，她怕别人抢走父亲 为自己选定依存的真爱。而命运的捉弄，却使她很快成了寡妇，在为爱人缝制寿衣的时候，她的悲哀成了整个曲子的灵魂…
Altan, 这是一支被誉为90年代最杰出的一支爱尔兰传统民谣乐团 。从1983 年成立以来 ( 当时还未正式以 Altan 为团名 ) 至今共 出版了8 张专辑，为他们赢得了许多音乐奖项，其中包括了三座 NAIRD Award (National Assoication of Independent Record Dealers 美国独立音乐品牌协会 ), 英国民谣音乐 杂志 (Folk and Roots) 及英国流行乐杂志 (Q Magnize) 的年度最佳民谣专辑 等多项大奖。
这首歌在我电脑里很久了
虽然之前也很喜欢这个曲子
却从来没有去查过歌词
今天偶然间在一边听歌时一边看着歌词
顷刻间被俘获
泪流满面 |
