When You and I Were Young,Maggie - Jean Redpath
When You and I Were Young,Maggie
Jean Redpath
Maggie Clark was born on July 14, 1841 near by Glenbrook Township, above Hamilton, Ontario. She was courted by George Johnson, a poetic 21-year old who had come to teach at the local school after graduating from the university of Toronto. Soon the couple were engaged but Maggie contracted tuberculosis and it was during one of her bouts of illness that George wrote the familiar text. In October 1864 they were married : Maggie died the following year. George asked a friend in Dettoit, J.C. Butterfield, to set the poem to music, and an evergreen was born.
Jean Redpath의 노래 가사
The violets were scenting the woods, Maggie / Their perfume was soft on the breeze
When I first said I loved only you, Maggie / And you said you only me
The chestnut bloomed green through the glades, Maggie / A robin sang a songloud from a tree
When I first said I loved only you, Maggie / And you said you only me
A golden row of daffodils shone, Maggie / And danced with the leaves on the lea
When I first said I loved only you, Maggie / And you said you only me
The birds in the trees sang a song, Maggie of haooier days yet to be /
When I first said I loved only you, Maggie / And you said you only me
I promised that I'd come again, Maggie / And happy forever we'd be
When I first said I loved only you, Maggie / And you said you only me
But ocean proved wider then miles, Maggie / A distance our hearts could not foresee
When I first said I loved only you, Maggie / And you said you only me
Our dreams they never came true, Maggie / Our fond hopes were never meant to be
When I first said I loved only you, Maggie / And you said you only me
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원래의 가사
I wandered today to the hill, Maggie / To watch the scene below
The creek and the rusty old mill, Maggie / Where we sat in the long, long ago.
The green grove is gone from the hill, Maggie / Where first the daisies sprung
The old rusty mill is still, Maggie / Since you and I were young.
A city so silent and lone, Maggie / Where the young and the gay and the best
In polished white mansion of stone, Maggie / Have each found a place of rest
Is built where the birds used to play, Maggie
And join in the songs that were sung / For we sang just as gay as they, Maggie
When You And I Were young.
They say I am feeble with age, Maggie / My steps are less sprightly than then
My face is a well written page, Maggie / But time alone was the pen.
They say we are aged and grey, Maggie / As spray by the white breakers flung
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie / When You And I Were young.
And now we are aged and grey, Maggie / The trials of life nearly done
Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie / When You And I Were young.
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