音樂劇「EVITA」主題曲「Oh What a Circus～Don't Cry For Me, Argentina」(Piano Version)

在父親節的這一天，
我想以一首在習樂之路上有特別回憶的曲子，
來獻給親愛的老爸，
這是來自Andrew Lloyd Webber(安德烈洛伊韋伯)的音樂劇「EVITA(艾薇塔)」
全劇最知名的主題樂章「Oh What a Circus～Don't Cry For Me, Argentina」
（噢！好個馬戲團大秀～阿根廷別為我哭泣）。

這是一首以探戈節奏為主的曲子，
在音樂劇中扮演著關鍵的角色，
它的旋律非常輕快、熱情，甚至帶點諷刺戲謔的味道，
但也能化身為非常溫柔典雅、優美動人的抒情獨唱曲，
聽了令人印象極深，也不禁讓人佩服作曲家的才華。

究竟這首歌對我們父子之間有何特殊意義呢？

在我國小五六年級左右，
因為爸爸非常喜愛這首歌，
還珍藏一片原唱者Elaine Paige(伊蓮佩姬)的CD，
每天都能聽到唱盤裡傳來那優雅的嗓音。
而當時的我正陷入一陣「迪士尼狂熱」，
瘋狂愛上「獅子王」、「風中奇緣」等動畫電影，
擁有它們的原聲帶成為我最大的夢想，
（那時完全沒有財力購買CD這種奢侈品^^"）
因此老爸就跟我交換條件，
只要我學會彈這首「Don't Cry For Me, Argentina」，
他就買給我「獅子王」的原聲帶，
我便日日夜夜不停地抓音、練習，
最後終於通過審核，
我得到了夢寐以求的獎品！
從此開啟我的音樂冒險之旅，
一首接著一首動人的旋律，伴隨我的成長歲月。

現在想來，這首曲子真算得上是一切的開端哩！
縱使當時的我完全不了解歌詞在唱什麼，
但在長大以後，找到瑪丹娜所演的電影版後，
才真正對它「二聽鍾情」，
深深著迷於那極富戲劇張力的樂思。

它的旋律，在一開頭不斷重複著無聊的單音，
若不是靠豐富的節奏來強化，
簡直就像是一場無趣的演說、如念經一般叨叨絮絮，
但當副歌進來以後，
高低起伏的旋律線，卻有種催眠一般的魔力，
叫人側耳一聽、再聽，不覺地朗朗上口。

這正巧與和父親之間的關係一樣，
平常見面他也總是重覆著聽了不知幾回的叮嚀、提醒，
要記得刷牙、要早睡早起、天冷要記得多加件衣服、騎車要小心......

但聽久了，卻也形成一種特別的情感聯繫方式，
我知道那是他表達愛的方式，
一開始只是如同探戈的節奏般，
輕浮地讓它流過耳畔，
隨著一次又一次的重覆，
卻能化作綿長的情韻，
在夜深人靜時，想來一陣窩心。

因此，
在這特別的日子，
謹以這首曲子，向最愛的老爸致上深深的感謝，
謝謝您的栽培，讓我能成為今天深愛音樂，也被音樂所愛的我，
謝謝您讓我能做最喜歡的事。

祝您　父親節快樂：）

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