Friday, June 25, 2010

柠檬树 Lemon tree

1960年代,反战与嬉皮士浪潮冲击着美国,也造就了许多赫赫有名的民歌手,PP&M是当时一支出色的民歌组合。


PP&M( Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, Mary Travers) 一个超级俊男,一个风趣鬼佬,一个金发美女,通过三重唱的演绎方式把民歌与反战的情绪带到世界各地。

PP&M唱红了许多金曲经典,“在风中荡漾”(Blowin' in the wind),“离家五百里”(Five hundred miles),“If I had a hammer”,“Where have all the flowers gone?”. 与“柠檬树”(Lemon tree)都是大家耳熟能详的。


PP&M在1961年出道,隔年灌录第一张唱片《Peter, Paul and Mary》,收录了Five hundred mile, If I had a hammer,Lemon tree等歌曲。在1962至1969年间,PP&M每年都打入美国歌曲百名龙虎榜。例如:

1962年, Lemon Tree–排行35,If I Had a Hammer–排行2
1963年, Blowin' in the wind - 排行2
1969年,Leaving on a jet plane – 排行老大


1970年,PP&M决定分道扬镳,各自开创自己的歌唱事业,可是三人的歌唱事业都无法超越60年代的风光。 1978年,三人决定重新合作,开始更漫长的三重唱生涯,牵手同行了31年。


2009年9月16日,72岁的Mary患癌去世,PP&M组合剩下P&P,遍插驻叟少一人。

http://navalants.blogspot.com/2009/10/lemon-tree.html


柠檬树Lemon Tree:


When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
"Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree."
"Don't put your faith in love, my boy", my father said to me,
"I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree."


One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree
The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me:


One day she left without a word. She took away the sun.
And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done.
She'd left me for another, it's a common tale but true.
A sadder man but wiser now I sing these words to you:


Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.

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