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When You And I WereYoung, Maggie 加拿大民歌Slim Whitman(往事如昨by 风飞飞)

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When You And I WereYoung, Maggie 加拿大民歌Slim Whitman(往事如昨by 风飞飞)
 

联接http://space.wenxuecity.com/media/201211/06/1352257131.m3u
 
It was first published as a song in 1866. The lyrics tell of

the tragic love story of Maggie Clarke and George Johnson who,

in the early 1860s, courted in Canada near Hamilton Ontario.

They were married in 1864, but Maggie died less than a year

later. Her husband immortalized their short life together in

a poem which he published in a book of verse entitled 'Maple

Leaves'. A young Englishman by the name of James Butterfield

was so touched by the poem that he set it to music. Traces of

the old mill can still be seen at Albions Falls near Hamilton.



When You and I Were Young, Maggie



Music by James Butterfield

Lyrics by George Johnson



I wandered today to the hill, Maggie

To watch the scene below

The creek and the rusty old mill, Maggie

Where we sat in the long, long ago.

The green grove is gone from the hill, Maggie

Where first the daisies sprung

The old rusty mill is still, Maggie

Since you and I were young.



A city so silent and lone, Maggie

Where the young and the gay and the best

In polished white mansion of stone, Maggie

Have each found a place of rest

Is built where the birds used to play, Maggie

And join in the songs that were sung

For we sang just as gay as they, Maggie

When you and I were young.



They say I am feeble with age, Maggie

My steps are less sprightly than then

My face is a well written page, Maggie

But time alone was the pen.

They say we are aged and grey, Maggie

As spray by the white breakers flung

But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie

When you and I were young.



And now we are aged and grey, Maggie

The trials of life nearly done

Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie

When you and I were young.

 

 
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林贝卡 回复 悄悄话 TyHongAu,

It is such a touching song and pretty post. It is also the first time for me to hear this song.

也谢谢你分享如此感人的爱情故事。

Have a nice weekend,

Rebecca
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