歌曲 | The Whole House Is Singing |
歌手 | Alasdair Roberts |
专辑 | Farewell Sorrow |
作曲 : Roberts | |
I know she rose early, for I heard her sweet singing | |
Echoing over the flowering heath. | |
She gathered the willow, the elder, the linden, | |
The holly, the ivy twined into a wreath. | |
Oh, the notes you are forming, I long to possess them. | |
They leap from your tongue and ascend on the breeze. | |
Had I risen early from bed in the morning, | |
Then I would have hold of the notes you release. | |
And she gave me the wreath and she sang like a starling, | |
My fingers intwined in her feathery hair, | |
But she shrugged me away and said Alasdair, darling, | |
When a song's on the wind it belongs to the air. | |
See Polly, she sings as she sits at the spinning wheel. | |
Mary, she sings as she skips with her rope. | |
Jonny, he sings as he fetches the herring creel | |
And Billy, he sings as he rolls down the slope. | |
And the whole house is singing, The whole house is singing, | |
The rafters are ringing, and the timbers are thrown, | |
The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing, | |
And I overhear them, and this is their song. | |
We are stronger when the moon glows in the sky, | |
And the moon causes the tide to rise and rise, | |
And the weed carried upon the drawing foam | |
We will gather to bedeck our happy home. |
zuò qǔ : Roberts | |
I know she rose early, for I heard her sweet singing | |
Echoing over the flowering heath. | |
She gathered the willow, the elder, the linden, | |
The holly, the ivy twined into a wreath. | |
Oh, the notes you are forming, I long to possess them. | |
They leap from your tongue and ascend on the breeze. | |
Had I risen early from bed in the morning, | |
Then I would have hold of the notes you release. | |
And she gave me the wreath and she sang like a starling, | |
My fingers intwined in her feathery hair, | |
But she shrugged me away and said Alasdair, darling, | |
When a song' s on the wind it belongs to the air. | |
See Polly, she sings as she sits at the spinning wheel. | |
Mary, she sings as she skips with her rope. | |
Jonny, he sings as he fetches the herring creel | |
And Billy, he sings as he rolls down the slope. | |
And the whole house is singing, The whole house is singing, | |
The rafters are ringing, and the timbers are thrown, | |
The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing, | |
And I overhear them, and this is their song. | |
We are stronger when the moon glows in the sky, | |
And the moon causes the tide to rise and rise, | |
And the weed carried upon the drawing foam | |
We will gather to bedeck our happy home. |