Song | The Old Men of the Shells |
Artist | Alasdair Roberts |
Album | Amber Gatherers |
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作曲 : Roberts | |
As I roved out one Shrovetide Eve | |
Among the bramble and the cloudberry | |
It's then I heard a melody | |
A-blowing over the Northern Sea: | |
The song of the old men of the shells | |
The old men of the shells, my boys | |
The old men of the shells | |
I left the ones who love me well | |
To find my home in the ocean swells | |
And follow the old men of the shells | |
I made my bed so shallow | |
Among the marigold and marshmallow | |
It's then I heard the old men say | |
"Why deny the sea her prey? | |
Come follow the old men of the shells" | |
So deeper, deeper I made my home | |
Among the samphire, among the ocean foam | |
The curlew call my curfew bell | |
Leads me to my bed of pearls | |
To lie with the old men of the shells | |
And though the words they sang were few | |
They had the ring of something true | |
I listened long and began to sing | |
They way the unfledged bird takes the wing | |
I sang with the old men of the shells | |
I cast around to find my tune | |
Thinking to sing the song all alone | |
But wise words on a foolish tongue | |
Howsoever sweet they be sung | |
They jangle like the brassy bells of hell | |
They'll never please the old men of the shells | |
The old men of the shells, my boys | |
The old men of the shells | |
I left the ones who love me well | |
To find my home in the ocean swell | |
And follow the old men of the shells |
zuo qu : Roberts | |
As I roved out one Shrovetide Eve | |
Among the bramble and the cloudberry | |
It' s then I heard a melody | |
Ablowing over the Northern Sea: | |
The song of the old men of the shells | |
The old men of the shells, my boys | |
The old men of the shells | |
I left the ones who love me well | |
To find my home in the ocean swells | |
And follow the old men of the shells | |
I made my bed so shallow | |
Among the marigold and marshmallow | |
It' s then I heard the old men say | |
" Why deny the sea her prey? | |
Come follow the old men of the shells" | |
So deeper, deeper I made my home | |
Among the samphire, among the ocean foam | |
The curlew call my curfew bell | |
Leads me to my bed of pearls | |
To lie with the old men of the shells | |
And though the words they sang were few | |
They had the ring of something true | |
I listened long and began to sing | |
They way the unfledged bird takes the wing | |
I sang with the old men of the shells | |
I cast around to find my tune | |
Thinking to sing the song all alone | |
But wise words on a foolish tongue | |
Howsoever sweet they be sung | |
They jangle like the brassy bells of hell | |
They' ll never please the old men of the shells | |
The old men of the shells, my boys | |
The old men of the shells | |
I left the ones who love me well | |
To find my home in the ocean swell | |
And follow the old men of the shells |
zuò qǔ : Roberts | |
As I roved out one Shrovetide Eve | |
Among the bramble and the cloudberry | |
It' s then I heard a melody | |
Ablowing over the Northern Sea: | |
The song of the old men of the shells | |
The old men of the shells, my boys | |
The old men of the shells | |
I left the ones who love me well | |
To find my home in the ocean swells | |
And follow the old men of the shells | |
I made my bed so shallow | |
Among the marigold and marshmallow | |
It' s then I heard the old men say | |
" Why deny the sea her prey? | |
Come follow the old men of the shells" | |
So deeper, deeper I made my home | |
Among the samphire, among the ocean foam | |
The curlew call my curfew bell | |
Leads me to my bed of pearls | |
To lie with the old men of the shells | |
And though the words they sang were few | |
They had the ring of something true | |
I listened long and began to sing | |
They way the unfledged bird takes the wing | |
I sang with the old men of the shells | |
I cast around to find my tune | |
Thinking to sing the song all alone | |
But wise words on a foolish tongue | |
Howsoever sweet they be sung | |
They jangle like the brassy bells of hell | |
They' ll never please the old men of the shells | |
The old men of the shells, my boys | |
The old men of the shells | |
I left the ones who love me well | |
To find my home in the ocean swell | |
And follow the old men of the shells |