Red River Valley    vocal-1  vocal-2   All Singers

From this valley they say you are going, We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are taking the sunshine  Which has brightened our pathways a while.

Chorus
Come and sit by my side  if you love me; Do not hasten to bid me adieu,
But remember the Red River Valley,   And the girl that has loved you so true.

I've been thinking a long time, my darling,  Of the sweet words you never would say,
Now, alas, must my fond hopes all vanish?  For they say you are going away.

Won't you think of the valley you're leaving, Oh, how lonely and sad it will be,
Just think of the fond heart you're breaking,  And the grief you are causing to me.

From this valley they say you are going,  When you go, may your darling go too?
Would you leave her behind unprotected, When she loves no one other than you.

As you go to your home by the ocean, May you never forget those sweet hours,
That we spent in the Red River Valley, And the love we exchanged 'mid the flowers.

I have promised you, darling, that never    Will a word from my lips cause you pain,
And my life, it will be yours forever,       If you only will love me again.

They will bury me where you have wandered,  Near the hills where the daffodils grow,
When you're gone from the Red River valley,  For I can't live without you I know.

红河谷  范继淹 译配

人们说你就要离开村庄 我们将怀念你的微笑 你的眼睛比太阳更明亮 照耀在我们的心上
走过来坐在我的身旁   不要离别的这样匆忙  要记住红河谷你的故乡，还有那热爱你的姑娘
你可会想到你的故乡  多么寂寞多么凄凉 想一想你走后我的痛苦   想一想留给我的悲伤
走过来坐在我的身旁， 不要离别的这样匆忙  要记住红河谷你的故乡，还有那热爱你的姑娘
人们说 你就要离开村庄，要离开热爱你的姑娘 为什么不让她和你同去， 为什么把她留在村庄
亲爱的人我曾经答应你， 我决不让你烦恼 只要你能够重新爱我 我愿意永远留在你身旁
走过来坐在我的身旁 不要离别的这样匆忙 要记住红河谷你的故乡 还有那热爱你的姑娘

Click Go the Shears 羊毛剪子喀嚓嚓 （澳大利亚）  vocal   more
       ABC Broadcast Bare Belled Ewe  mp3       Lingo-music  
 "Click Go the Shears"  is a traditional Australian folk song. The song details a day's work for a sheep shearer in the days before machine shears. The enduring popularity of this song reflects the traditional role that the wool industry has played in Australian life. The song describes the various roles in the shearing shed, including the "ringer", the "boss of the board", the "colonial experience man" and the "tar boy". After the day's shearing, the "old shearer" takes his cheque and heads to the local pub for a drinking session.
  The tune is an adaptation of the American Civil War song "Ring the Bell, Watchman" by Henry Clay Work and the first verse follows closely, in parody, Work's lyrics as well.
  The second verse in the original 19th century song is as follows:
    Click goes his shears; click, click, click.
Wide are the blows, and his hand is moving quick,
The ringer looks round, for he lost it by a blow,
And he curses that old shearer with the bare belled ewe.

【shear剪羊毛。ringer敲钟人。belly肚皮ewe[ju:]母羊。光秃秃的老母羊。】
The usual chorus 合唱 of the song is as follows:

 Click go the shears boys, click, click, click,
 Wide is his blow and his hands move quick,
 The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow,
 And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied yoe

…… The lyrics vary widely; "bare-bellied yoe" (yoe母羊 is a dialect word for ewe) is often "bare-bellied joe" or even "blue-bellied ewe". The last line in the verse about the "colonial experience" man "smelling like a whore妓女" is often bowdlerised to删除 "smelling like a sewer" or completely rewritten./bowdlerize删除（书刊、剧本等中）有伤风化的词语或场面/ snagger: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)  "2. Austral. A slow, inexpert, or poor sheep-shearer./A Dictionary of Australian Slang  snagger : an inept shearer /bare-bellied yoe: young ewe with lightly-fleeced belly region, not needing shearing./snag: 妨碍，被戳坏。'snag' - to make a tear in a piece of fabric.

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 Chorus sung after each verse
Click go the shears boys, click, click, click,
Wide is his blow and his hands move quick,
The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow,
And curses the old snagger with the bare-bellied joe.
Verse 1
Out on the board the old shearer stands,
Grasping his shears in his thin bony hands
Fixed is his gaze on a bare-bellied yoe,
Glory if he gets her, won't he make the ringer go.
Verse 2
In the middle of the floor in his cane bottomed chair
Sits the boss of the board with his eyes everywhere,
Notes well each fleece as it comes to the screen,
Paying strict attention that it's taken off clean.

[fleece:一只羊一次剪下的毛;羊毛状织物;
Verse 3
The colonial experience man, he is there of course,
With his shiny legging's on, just got off his horse,
Gazes all around him like a real connoisseur,
Scented soap and brilliantine and smelling like a whore.

//Casting round his eye like a real connoisseur  

Whistling the old tune "I'm the Perfect Lure"/

[legging:绑腿，裹腿，护胫;connoisseur:内行，鉴赏家；scent闻到；brilliantine润发油;发蜡;】

Verse 4
The tar-boy is there waiting in demand
With his blackened tar-pot in his tarry hand,
Spies one old sheep with a cut upon its back
Hears what he's waiting for it's "Tar here Jack"

【tar-boy涂焦油的青年;spy,看见；看见羊受伤；tar,以焦油或沥青覆盖或涂抹（某物）】
Verse 5
Now the shearing is all over, we've all got our cheques,
So roll up your swags and it's off down the trace,
The first pub we come to it's there we'll have a spree,
And everyone that comes along it's 'Have a drink on me.'

[swags摇晃;水潭;赃物;珍贵物;spree,狂欢.

（Shearing is all over and we've all got our cheques

Roll up your swag for we're off on the tracks
The first pub we come to it's there we'll have a spree
And everyone that comes along it's, "Come and drink with me!"

Down by the bar the old shearer stands
Grasping his glass in his thin bony hands
Fixed is his gaze on a green-painted keg
Glory he'll get down on it ere he stirs a peg）

[keg,小桶；peg,钉，桩; 尖头物，爪

Verse 6
There we leave him standing shouting for all hands,
Whilst all around him every 'shouter' stands,
His eye is on the keg which now is lowering fast,
He works hard, he drinks hard, and goes to Hell at last.

（You take off the belly-wool clean out the crutch
Go up the neck for the rules they are such
You clean round the horns first shoulder go down
One blow up the back and you then turn around
[crutch,拐杖; 胯部; pull out 拔出，拉出]
Click, click, that's how the shears go
Click, click, so awfully quick
You pull out a sheep he'll give a kick
And still hear your shears going click, click, click）

五线谱 +mp3 http://folkstream.com/022.html

http://www.imagesaustralia.com/shearingoftherams.htm

羊毛剪子咔嚓响

剪羊毛的老工人站在板壁旁，枯瘠的手握着羊毛剪刀，
两只眼睛盯着那老母羊，剪下母羊的毛他就将优胜者赶上。
/羊毛剪子咔嚓响，低弯着腰来剪子动得欢。
那优胜者抬头发现刚好被人赶上，嘴里不停骂着老头和那老母羊。 /RR

涂焦油的青年等候在一旁，油呼呼的手提着一只油罐，
眼看一只老羊背上受了伤，她就赶快提着油罐上前来帮忙。RR

剪完羊毛人人领到报偿，捆上你的行囊快把路赶，
我们来到一间小酒馆，招呼路过的弟兄大家痛快喝一番。RR

剪羊毛的老工人站在柜台旁，手捏着酒杯他凝神思量，
木通里的酒就要被人喝完，拼死干活，拼命喝酒，没有好下场。RR

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