"Ashokan Farewell" (再見阿育王)is a piece of music composed by Jay Ungar in 1982. It has served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who gave the tune its name, at the Ashokan Field Campus of SUNY New Paltz (now the Ashokan Center) in upstate New York. The tune was used as the title theme of the 1990 PBS television miniseries The Civil War, as well as the 1991 compilation album Songs of the Civil War.
網上各種各樣的演奏多如牛毛。
歌詞是這樣開頭的:
The sun is sinking low in the sky above Ashokan.
The pines and the willows know soon we will part.
There’s a whisper in the wind of promises unspoken,
And a love that will always remain in my heart.
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老夫不才,獻上拙譯如下:
那廂青鬆這廂柳,共赴夕陽手牽手;
清風送語應有意,離情眷戀駐心頭。
。。。。。。
歌詞似有不同版本,充滿依依不舍,幽美而純真,迷茫而向往的華爾茲情調。遺憾未能找到中文譯本,也遺憾太晚得識“再見阿育王”。誰知,隔天中午“已知其所以然”的我,帶著準備“理論聯係實際”的雀躍,再次路過那棟建築時,等待我的卻是更大的遺憾。裝修工不見了,音樂家不見了,隻有門口迎風舞動的彩色氣球。很明顯,裝修結束,裝修工“五重奏”轉移了,“再見阿育王”已經Gone with the wind,隨風而去了。。。遺憾的是跟裝修工音樂家們有緣相遇無緣相識;遺憾的是消費了多日音樂饗宴,竟未對“廚師們”說聲“Hi”。