英語歌曲:When You And I Were Young

Song: When You And I Were Young, Maggie Artist: Foster & Allen I wandered today to the hills Maggie,to watch the scene below The creek and the creeking old mill Maggie, as we used to long, long ago The green grove is gone from the hills Maggie, where first the daisys sprung The creeking old mill is still Maggie since you and I where young They say that I'm feeble with age Maggie, my steps are much slower than then My face is a well written page Maggie, and time all alone was the pen They say we have outlived our time Maggie as dated as songs that we've sung But to me you're as fair as you were Maggie, when you and I were young "When You And I Were Young, Maggie" is a kind of sentimental song for the lost youth and fear of aging.  It is performed by Foster and Allen, a musical duo from Ireland, consisting of Mick Foster and Tony Allen. While they are singing, Foster plays accordion and Allen plays guitar. According to Wikipedia, Canadian school teacher George Johnson from Hamilton, Ontario wrote the poem "When You And I Were Young, Maggie". It was published in 1864 in a collection of his poems entitled Maple Leaves. Margaret "Maggie" Clark was George's student. George and Maggie fell in love. Maggie was in poor health. One day, George walked to the edge of the Niagara escarpment, overlooking what is now downtown Hamilton, and composed the poem.  George and Maggie  were married in 1864 but Maggie's health deteriorated and she died a year later. James Butterfield set the poem to music and it became popular all over the world. Johnson died in 1917. The schoolhouse where the two lovers met still stands on the escarpment above Hamilton, and a plaque bearing the name of the song has been erected in front of the old building.

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• The tempo of this song is rather slow. -衝浪潛水員- ♂ (135 bytes) () 01/06/2014 postreply 22:26:10

• I guess that you enjoy fast beat music. -斕婷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/07/2014 postreply 09:16:17

• Hah, I tend to fall asleep in slow and soothing music :) -衝浪潛水員- ♂ (0 bytes) () 01/07/2014 postreply 19:42:06