音乐剧“EVITA”主题曲“Oh What a Circus～Don't Cry For Me, Argentina”(Piano Version)

在父亲节的这一天，
我想以一首在习乐之路上有特别回忆的曲子，
来献给亲爱的老爸，
这是来自Andrew Lloyd Webber(安德烈洛伊韦伯)的音乐剧“EVITA(艾薇塔)”
全剧最知名的主题乐章“Oh What a Circus～Don't Cry For Me, Argentina”
（噢！好个马戏团大秀～阿根廷别为我哭泣）。

这是一首以探戈节奏为主的曲子，
在音乐剧中扮演著关键的角色，
它的旋律非常轻快、热情，甚至带点讽刺戏谑的味道，
但也能化身为非常温柔典雅、优美动人的抒情独唱曲，
听了令人印象极深，也不禁让人佩服作曲家的才华。

究竟这首歌对我们父子之间有何特殊意义呢？

在我国小五六年级左右，
因为爸爸非常喜爱这首歌，
还珍藏一片原唱者Elaine Paige(伊莲佩姬)的CD，
每天都能听到唱盘里传来那优雅的嗓音。
而当时的我正陷入一阵“迪士尼狂热”，
疯狂爱上“狮子王”、“风中奇缘”等动画电影，
拥有它们的原声带成为我最大的梦想，
（那时完全没有财力购买CD这种奢侈品^^"）
因此老爸就跟我交换条件，
只要我学会弹这首“Don't Cry For Me, Argentina”，
他就买给我“狮子王”的原声带，
我便日日夜夜不停地抓音、练习，
最后终于通过审核，
我得到了梦寐以求的奖品！
从此开启我的音乐冒险之旅，
一首接著一首动人的旋律，伴随我的成长岁月。

现在想来，这首曲子真算得上是一切的开端哩！
纵使当时的我完全不了解歌词在唱什么，
但在长大以后，找到玛丹娜所演的电影版后，
才真正对它“二听钟情”，
深深著迷于那极富戏剧张力的乐思。

它的旋律，在一开头不断重复著无聊的单音，
若不是靠丰富的节奏来强化，
简直就像是一场无趣的演说、如念经一般叨叨絮絮，
但当副歌进来以后，
高低起伏的旋律线，却有种催眠一般的魔力，
叫人侧耳一听、再听，不觉地朗朗上口。

这正巧与和父亲之间的关系一样，
平常见面他也总是重复著听了不知几回的叮咛、提醒，
要记得刷牙、要早睡早起、天冷要记得多加件衣服、骑车要小心......

但听久了，却也形成一种特别的情感联系方式，
我知道那是他表达爱的方式，
一开始只是如同探戈的节奏般，
轻浮地让它流过耳畔，
随著一次又一次的重复，
却能化作绵长的情韵，
在夜深人静时，想来一阵窝心。

因此，
在这特别的日子，
谨以这首曲子，向最爱的老爸致上深深的感谢，
谢谢您的栽培，让我能成为今天深爱音乐，也被音乐所爱的我，
谢谢您让我能做最喜欢的事。

祝您　父亲节快乐：）

Oh What A Circus

(che：)
Oh what a circus, oh what a show
Argentina has gone to town
Over the death of an actress called eva peron
We've all gone crazy
Mourning all day and mourning all night
Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right

Oh what an exit, that's how to go
When they're ringing your curtain down
Demand to be buried like eva peron
It's quite a sunset
And good for the country in a roundabout way
We've made the front page of all the world's papers today

But who is this santa evita?
Why all this howling, hysterical sorrow?
What kind of goddess has lived among us?
How will we ever get by without her?

She had her moments, she had some style
The best show in town was the crowd
Outside the casa rosada crying, 'eva peron'
But that's all gone now
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears
We're all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years

(crowd:)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina
Ad te clamamus exules filii eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia
Hail, oh queen, mother of mercy
Our life, sweetness, and hope
Hail, hail, oh queen
To you we cry, exiled sons of eve
To you we sigh, mourning and weeping
Oh clement, oh loving one

(che:)
You let down your people evita
You were supposed to have been immortal
That's all they wanted, not much to ask for
But in the end you could not deliver

Sing you fools, but you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead, your king is through
And she's not coming back to you

Show business kept us all alive
Since seventeen october 1945
But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in

Instead of government we had a stage
Instead of ideas, a prima donna's rage
Instead of help we were given a crowd
She didn't say much, but she said it loud

Sing you fools, but you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead, your king is through
She's not coming back to you

(crowd:)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina peron
Ad te clamamus exules filii eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia

(eva:)
Don't cry for me argentina
For i am ordinary, unimportant
And undeserving of such attention
Unless we all are, i think we all are
So share my glory, so share my coffin
So share my glory, so share my coffin

(che:)
It's our funeral too