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附录:三和居士整理的 Karen Carpenter 生平简介
“卡彭特兄妹”是来自美国康涅狄格州纽黑文市的一支兄妹二重唱组合。哥哥理查德(Richard Carpenter,生于1946年10月15日,健盘手兼歌手)和妹妹卡伦(Karen Carpenter,生于1950年3月2日,歌手兼鼓手)。60年代末他们迁往加利福尼亚州在一个名叫“光谱”(Spectrum)的6人演唱组中一起演唱,70年代,该演唱组推出了多首风靡世界的单曲和唱片其中包括《与爱情告别》(Goodbye to Love,1972)和《世界之巅》(Top of the World,1973)等。1971年为影片《情人和别的陌生人》主唱的《我们所知道的一切》获得了第四十三届奥斯卡最佳电影歌曲奖。1975年因精神和身体过度劳累而病倒,从此一蹶不振,演唱远不如往日成功。1981至1982年曾患厌食症,痊愈后决定重返歌坛。但不幸于1983年2月死于心肌梗塞,终年仅三十二岁。
Such a feeling's coming over me.
There is a wonder in most everything I see.
Not a cloud in the sky,got the sun in my eyes,
And I won't be surprised if it's a dream.
Everything I want the world to be
Is now coming true especially for me.
And the reason is clear,
It's because you're here.
You are the nearest thing to heaven
That I've seen.
I'm on the top of the world
Looking down on creation,
And the only explanation
I can find is the love that I've found
Ever since you've been around.
Your love's put me on the top of the world.
Something in the wind has learned my name,
And it's telling me that things are not the same.
In the leaves on the trees,
And the touch of the breeze,
There's a pleasing sense of happiness for me.
There is only one wish on my mind,
When this day is through
I hope that I will find
That tomorrow will be just the same for you and me.
All I need will be mine if you are here
Good-bye, Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
He gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
His Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
Thibodaux, Fontaineaux, the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
Settle down far from town get me a pirogue
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
除了"Top Of The World"最早还在学校里是通过当时流行的各种舞曲知道的, 听到此歌是后来的事...但其它的象" Yesterday Once More", "SING THE SONG" 还有"Jambalaya"当是都是通过当年红极一时的歌星成方圆演唱推出的...代表了那时代流行歌曲中的很主要的几首英语歌曲...
On a waggon bound for market
there`s a calf with a mournful eye.
High above him there`s a swallow,
winging swiftly through the sky.
How the winds are laughing,
they laugh with all their might.
Laugh and laugh the whole day through,
and half the summer`s night.
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna; Donna, Donna, Donna, Don.
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna; Donna, Donna, Donna, Don.
"Stop complaining!“ said the farmer,
Who told you a calf to be ?
Why don`t you have wings to fly with,
like the swallow so proud and free?“ + Chorus
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered,
never knowing the reason why.
But whoever treasures freedom,
like the swallow has learned to fly.