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：漫步在莎莉花园
演唱：丽塔•埃里克森 翻译：佚名

在莎莉花园深处，吾爱与我曾经相遇。
她穿越了莎莉花园，用雪白的双足。
她嘱咐我要爱得轻松，就象新叶在枝桠萌芽。
但我当时年幼无知，不予轻率苟同。

在河边的田野，我和我的爱人曾经驻立。
她将雪白的双手搭在我微倾的肩膀。
她嘱咐我要活得轻松，就象青草在堤岸滋长。
但我当时年幼无知，而今却泪水盈盈。

歌曲《Down by the Salley Gardens》 简介

这首歌曲的作曲者为威廉•巴特勒•叶芝 William Butler Yeats（1865.6.13—1939.1.28），爱尔兰著名的诗人、剧作家和神秘主义者。叶芝也是“爱尔兰文艺复兴运动”的领袖，艾比剧院（Abbey Theatre）的创建者之一。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 有许多个不同的版本，听起来，有不同的味道，如此地富有诗意。丽塔•埃里克森具有天籁般嗓音，歌声就有如温暖的泉源般，向世人传达出源源不断的爱。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. （摘自网络）

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回复静谧海湾的评论:

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

Merry Christmas,

Rebecca

[静谧海湾]

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