Down By The Salley Gardens

Song: Down by the Salley Gardens
Artist: Rita Eriksen

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now I am full of tears.



歌曲：漫步在莎莉花園
演唱：麗塔•埃裏克森 翻譯：佚名

在莎莉花園深處，吾愛與我曾經相遇。
她穿越了莎莉花園，用雪白的雙足。
她囑咐我要愛得輕鬆，就象新葉在枝椏萌芽。
但我當時年幼無知，不予輕率苟同。

在河邊的田野，我和我的愛人曾經駐立。
她將雪白的雙手搭在我微傾的肩膀。
她囑咐我要活得輕鬆，就象青草在堤岸滋長。
但我當時年幼無知，而今卻淚水盈盈。

歌曲《Down by the Salley Gardens》 簡介

這首歌曲的作曲者為威廉•巴特勒•葉芝 William Butler Yeats（1865.6.13—1939.1.28），愛爾蘭著名的詩人、劇作家和神秘主義者。葉芝也是“愛爾蘭文藝複興運動”的領袖，艾比劇院（Abbey Theatre）的創建者之一。In 1923, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

Down by the Salley Gardens 有許多個不同的版本，聽起來，有不同的味道，如此地富有詩意。麗塔•埃裏克森具有天籟般嗓音，歌聲就有如溫暖的泉源般，向世人傳達出源源不斷的愛。Rita Eriksen is without doubt considered as one of Norway’s best lead singers because of her outstanding voice.She is also a master singing Norwegian traditional folk music. Rita is known for her ability to express different directions in her singing. （摘自網絡）

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回複靜謐海灣的評論:

Thank you for sharing such a touching story. Maybe you can write it down when you get some time.

Merry Christmas,

Rebecca

[靜謐海灣]

I listened many times because it is so beautiful and touching.

It reminds me a life story. A girl and a boy were in love. The boy left after three years with words I am not the one you really want. Twenty years late a man told a woman I was young and folish and thought that...

Thank you for sharing and enjoy your Xmas time,

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William Butler Yeats
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Butler Yeats (pronounced /ˈjeɪts/; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and together with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, and served as its chief during its early years. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment in his later years, Yeats was an Irish Senator for two terms.

In 1923, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation". Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers whose greatest works were completed after being awarded the Nobel Prize;such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).

Yeats was educated in Dublin, but spent his childhood in Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth, and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and these slowly paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser and Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as to the lyricism of the Pre-Raphaelite poets. From 1900, Yeats' poetry grew more physical and realistic renouncing the transcendentalism of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks and cyclical theories of life.

Over the years Yeats adopted many different ideological positions, including, in the words of the critic Michael Valdez Moses, "those of radical nationalist, classical liberal, reactionary conservative and millenarian nihilist".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats

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Rita Eriksen

Rita Eriksen is without doubt considered as one of Norway’s best lead singers because of her outstanding voice.

In 1996 she released the album Tideland with the well-known singer Dolores Keane on the record label Kirkelig Kulturverksted. This was a CD that was very well received and showed that Rita Eriksen is also a master singing Norwegian traditional folk music. Rita is known for her ability to express different directions in her singing.

Rita Eriksen is half of the duo Eriksen, the other half being her brother Frank. Eriksen has three strong albums: Two Blue (MajorStudio MSCD 1113, 1992), The Water Is Wide (MajorStudio MSCD 1118, 1994) and Alt Vende Tebage (BMG Norge 743213281122, 1995) that established themselves amongst Norway’s best selling artists, especially their version of the famous Alf Pryøsen melody “Sønnavindvalsen” which has made Eriksen very well known in Norway.

http://worldmusiccentral.org/artists/artist_page.php?id=1396