荼蘼不争春,寂寞开最晚。

9.19.2009

柠檬树的功课

你的柠檬树或许是傻瓜花园或苏慧伦的。。。我的柠檬树是彼得、保罗、玛丽的。。。72岁的玛丽病逝了。

喜欢以前那种简单纯朴的歌,而彼得、保罗、玛丽是我懂得欣赏西洋歌曲时所喜爱的民歌团体之一。他们大多翻唱别人的歌,但又唱得那么好:If I have a hammer, Where have all the flowers gone, Leaving on a jet plane, 500 miles, Blowing in the wind。。。


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."

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.

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:
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

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.

略带伤感的民谣“Puff the magic dragon”。