"Ashokan Farewell" (再见阿育王)is a piece of music composed by Jay Ungar in 1982. It has served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who gave the tune its name, at the Ashokan Field Campus of SUNY New Paltz (now the Ashokan Center) in upstate New York. The tune was used as the title theme of the 1990 PBS television miniseries The Civil War, as well as the 1991 compilation album Songs of the Civil War.
网上各种各样的演奏多如牛毛。
歌词是这样开头的:
The sun is sinking low in the sky above Ashokan.
The pines and the willows know soon we will part.
There’s a whisper in the wind of promises unspoken,
And a love that will always remain in my heart.
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老夫不才,献上拙译如下:
那厢青松这厢柳,共赴夕阳手牵手;
清风送语应有意,离情眷恋驻心头。
。。。。。。
歌词似有不同版本,充满依依不舍,幽美而纯真,迷茫而向往的华尔兹情调。遗憾未能找到中文译本,也遗憾太晚得识“再见阿育王”。谁知,隔天中午“已知其所以然”的我,带着准备“理论联系实际”的雀跃,再次路过那栋建筑时,等待我的却是更大的遗憾。装修工不见了,音乐家不见了,只有门口迎风舞动的彩色气球。很明显,装修结束,装修工“五重奏”转移了,“再见阿育王”已经Gone with the wind,随风而去了。。。遗憾的是跟装修工音乐家们有缘相遇无缘相识;遗憾的是消费了多日音乐飨宴,竟未对“厨师们”说声“Hi”。