《中外老式情歌賞析-20》

《中外老式情歌賞析-20》

『與火車相關主題』

1)     童歌：

火車快飛，火車快飛，

穿過高山，爬過小溪，

不知走了幾百里

快到『嘉義』，快到家裡，

媽媽看見真歡喜……..。請欣賞：

https://youtu.be/dUDu60zlnhw?list=RDdUDu60zlnhw

2)     單程票-One Way Ticket- (Jitterbug) by Neil Sedaka (1959)

Choo choo train, chucking down the track,

Gonna travel-on,…. Never coming back.. whoo, woo, whoo

Got a one way ticket to the blues,……/

Bye bye love,

My baby is leaving me,

Now only teardrops

Are all that I can see, ..whoo, woo, woo…

*Got a one way ticket to the blues,

Gonna take a trip -to lonesome town,

Gonna stay at Heartbreak Hotel,

A fool such as I there never was,

I cry --a tear so well,/

Choo choo train, chucking down the track,

Gonna travel-on,.. Never coming back.. whoo, woo, whoo

Got a one way to the ticket blues,//

whoo, woo, whoo

Got a one way to the ticket blues,

Gonna take a trip ..to lonesome town,

Gonna stay at Heartbreak Hotel,

A fool such as I…. there never was,

I cry --my tears -so well,/

Choo choo train, chucking down the track,

Gonna travel-on…, Never coming back.. whoo, woo, whoo

Got a one-way ticket to the blues,

***whoo, woo, whoo/ ***Got a one way to the ticket blues,……

【本曲特色】：

A.     歌詞：

美國青少年失戀的心聲：

Choo choo表示火車行走聲，而whoo, woo, whoo代表嗚笛聲。Gonna travel-on,…. Never coming back……因失戀負氣出走，決心不回頭。然後準備去一座孤單的城市(lonesome town)；投宿一家傷心的飯店(heart-broken)hotel。我是最笨的人(a fool such as there never was) 。回想失戀痛哭流涕(I cry a tear so well)- 《註：cry為一不及物動詞，本不能加受詞，但此處作及物用，a tear一滴淚水作其受詞，顯示年輕人的英語。流淚通常用shed tears. tear不用單數，因掉眼淚，不只一滴!! 如My tears fell when I saw you…, 但teardrop是正式用語.)

Got a one- way ticket to the blues….. 買張單程車票，搭上不歸路……(來回票叫round-trip) 傷心欲絕。blue原為形容詞，代表憂鬱，blues表示慢步舞曲。To the blues….. 則是很傳神的年輕人語言。買車票前往…. 之地，本應用ticket for +地方。

B.     1959年尚無VCR或video發明，只有火車聲。請欣賞：

https://youtu.be/SvaBxv6C3Z0

Justin Lai  編譯

02/05/2018