小波比
《小波比》(英語:Little Bo-Peep),英語童謠,勞德民歌索引編號為6487。
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出版 | 約1805年 |
歌詞及旋律
編輯《小波比》在口耳相傳中歌詞多有變化,現代最常見的版本是:
- Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
- and doesn't know where to find them;
- leave them alone, And they'll come home,
- wagging (bringing) their tails behind them.[1]
第二行有時也作"And can't tell where to find them"。第四行常作"Bringing their tails behind them"[3],有時也作"Dragging their tails behind them"。童謠的旋律最早於1870年被作曲家、童謠收集者詹姆斯·威廉·埃利奧錄下,見於National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs[4]。
以下四節也常被加到歌詞中:
- Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
- and dreamt she heard them bleating;
- but when she awoke, she found it a joke,
- for they were still a-fleeting.
- Then up she took her little crook,
- determined for to find them;
- she found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
- for they'd left their tails behind them.
- It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray
- into a meadow hard by,
- there she espied their tails side by side,
- all hung on a tree to dry.
- She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
- and over the hillocks went rambling,
- and tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
- to tack each again to its lambkin.[1][3]
- 小波比甜蜜地睡著了,
- 在夢中她聽見羊叫;
- 她醒過來,就覺得好笑,
- 原來羊還在外面奔跑。
- 她馬上拿起牧羊棍,
- 下決心把羊群找到;
- 那羊找到了,但情況不妙,
- 因為羊的尾巴都掉了。
- (此節無翻譯)
- 小波比嘆息擦眼淚,
- 她跑遍所有的山崗;
- 她只能夠儘自己力量,
- 把羊的尾巴縫上。[2]
起源及歷史
編輯童謠的最早記錄見於1805年左右的一份手稿中,原文中稱呼「小波比」只是因為她個子矮小而不是因為她年齡小,未成年[1]。16世紀有一種兒童遊戲叫做波比,一般認為即指躲貓貓,莎士比亞的《李爾王》第一幕第四場也有所提及(Then they for sudden joy did weep, / And I for sorrow sung, / That such a king should play bo-peep / And go the fools among. 朱生豪譯:她們高興得眼淚盈眶,/我只好唱歌自遣哀愁,/可憐你堂堂一國之王,/卻跟傻瓜們作伴嬉遊。),但沒有證據表明這首童謠早於18世紀就已經存在了[1]。末四節則最早見於1810年書籍Gammer Gurton's Garland; Or, The Nursery Parnassus[1]。
參考資料
編輯- ^ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 93-4.
- ^ 2.0 2.1 外国名歌1000首. 山西教育出版社. 2003: 1723–24. ISBN 978-7-5440-2102-9.
- ^ 3.0 3.1 Linda Alchin. Little Bo Peep Rhyme. Nursery Rhymes Lyrics, Origins and History. [7 September 2013]. (原始內容存檔於2020-01-28).
- ^ J. J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (Courier Dover Publications, 5th edn., 2000), ISBN 0486414752, p. 502.