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021、Altan - Daily Growing（日渐长大）
. f* a8 e* Y4 O1 \$ ]. Y& I3 I 又一首爱尔兰音乐天籁，有故事的歌曲，父女俩对话般的吟唱、以及歌中那种仿佛已经渗入骨髓的忧伤让人无比感伤。故事是这样的：一个女子在年轻的时候由于父亲的安排嫁给了一个显贵的子弟，她开始担心自己的年龄有一天会成为感情悲剧的主因，她埋怨父亲错误的将自己嫁给了一个比她小很多的男子。婚后第二年，他们有了自己的孩子，而她的夫君却也还是一个孩子，在一天天的长大。她送他去上学，为他裹了蓝色的头巾，她怕别人抢走父亲为自己选定依存的真爱。而命运的捉弄，却使她很快成了寡妇，在为爱人缝制寿衣的时候，她的悲哀成了整个曲子的灵魂……* R6 {" S" n6 [. Z. t3 ^; q
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Daily Growing（日渐长大）. k+ T$ R3 m% r* [2 L" C
The trees they grow high, the leaves they do grow green,树在长高,叶在变绿
; C7 c$ U9 }' j5 w7 G Many is the time my true love I've seen,许多次，我看到他的可爱7 Z- k& f# g* J& `
Many an hour I have watched him all alone,几多时，我独自对他长久凝视，
4 w- x5 ^- K: H R; f9 r" j He's young but he's daily growing.他还小，但他正在长大! [& w/ x. f5 q- W6 r
Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong,爸爸, 亲爱的爸爸, 你对你的女儿犯下一个巨大的错误- D6 H/ F% [% j, Z+ w; b
You have married me to a boy who is too young,你把我嫁给了一个没有成年的男孩
3 Y c! y/ L! A/ H6 e2 H# _ I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen,我二十四，他十四% h. E. M8 Q9 P* K4 D* q C
He's young but he's daily growing.他还小，但他在长大
7 o3 O Y; {, P6 _4 v/ a/ o* r Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong,女儿, 亲爱的女儿,我给你的安排并没有错 t/ ^4 Q6 a# ^7 d/ O7 [6 p
I have married you to a great lord's son,我把你嫁给豪门的儿子! A' U" }: F6 e$ I
He will be a man for you when I am dead and gone,一旦我老去，他将是你依靠的男人# i+ h" S+ Z( v" Z7 ]
He's young but he's daily growing他还小, 但他在长大
! J M8 H+ N, R Father, dear father, if you see fit,爸爸, 亲爱的爸爸, 如果你认为合适
M) |" o0 w4 f3 V7 k; b/ @" @ We'll send him to college for another year yet,来年过后, 送他读大学吧
p/ T) [+ r% K+ {0 K' p I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head,我要用蓝绸带缠上他的头
1 c; A- k9 B5 ]+ R0 t1 _3 ?3 P To let the maidens know that he is married.告诉年轻的女孩, 他已经结婚$ |) K" I9 e9 b, {
One day I was looking over my father's castle wall,曾经有一天, 我越过爸爸的院墙
4 X# V1 b: K8 D* y1 A9 Z# \% g I spied all the boys playing with a ball,我看到一群男孩在玩球
@# A! r$ V1 V) o. W And my own true love was the flower of them all,我的爱追逐其中
O$ ] s Y% u9 j; W' q$ s5 M He's young but he's daily growing.他还小, 但他在长大2 @; C7 v1 g8 N. k- S* i
And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day,那是曙光微现的清晨; v' y" P$ ~( ~
They went into a hayfield to have some sport and play,他们冲入草场锻炼游戏
$ O9 E6 C: D- W9 { And what they did there she never would declare,他们的幼稚，她羞于告人) @. a! |, h* o
But she never more complained of his growing.但她无从抱怨，因为他在成长, L$ o1 Q q8 V* i) K8 q2 D/ {
At the age of fourteen he was a married man,十四岁，他成为已婚男人- \9 m; ~! ~( }& e
At the age of fifteen the father of my son,十五岁,他已经是一个孩子的父亲
, f! K( `5 F i) v8 U2 j At the age of sixteen his grave it was green,十六岁，他的墓地绿草如茵/ ], x) k0 R x2 \
And death had put an end to his growing.死亡终止他的成长
6 @% X" M/ f' M: d* M+ u I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud,我买来法兰绒，为我的可爱做着寿衣
0 ]; y0 @) h* W- s$ j* Q" M# N6 M With every stitch I put in it, the tears they will pour down,一针下去，泪如雨
, v M2 a" u, {8 a& Y With every stitch I put in it, how the tears they will flow,一针上来，雨是泪
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