When You And I WereYoung, Maggie 加拿大民歌Slim Whitman(往事如昨by 风飞飞)

When You And I WereYoung, Maggie 加拿大民歌Slim Whitman(往事如昨by 风飞飞)   联接http://space.wenxuecity.com/media/201211/06/1352257131.m3u   It was first published as a song in 1866. The lyrics tell of the tragic love story of Maggie Clarke and George Johnson who, in the early 1860s, courted in Canada near Hamilton Ontario. They were married in 1864, but Maggie died less than a year later. Her husband immortalized their short life together in a poem which he published in a book of verse entitled 'Maple Leaves'. A young Englishman by the name of James Butterfield was so touched by the poem that he set it to music. Traces of the old mill can still be seen at Albions Falls near Hamilton. When You and I Were Young, Maggie Music by James Butterfield Lyrics by George Johnson 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.