下午的一齣戲 by 陳明章

[semantic nuance]

Hi,

I'd like to post a beautiful Taiwanese song- 下午的一齣戲 by 陳明章. I remember the first time when I listened to it at a teahouse I was totally moved. It was long long time ago. It seemed that I had seen a motion picture running on in the lyrics. The song describes a scenario of Taiwanese opera performed without audiences in some rainy afternoon. Taiwanese opera is usually performed outdoors for worshiping gods, or celebrating festivals. The following lyrics are Taiwanese and I'll translate into Mandarin for you guys to understand. Hope you enjoy it.

下午的一齣戲 by 陳明章

天色漸漸暗落來

天色漸漸昏暗,

烏雲汝是按佗來？

烏雲你是打哪來?

職ㄟ熱天ㄟ下晡，

這個夏日的午後,

煞來落者職陣ㄟ毛毛仔雨。

竟下起了一陣毛毛細雨

踏者恬恬ㄟ街路，

踏在靜靜的街道上,

雨那麼變做遮爾粗？

雨怎麼變得這麼大

雨水扑佇布棚頂，

雨水潑打在布帆上

看戲ㄟ阿伯ㄚ煞攏走無。

看戲的老伯通通跑走了

下晡ㄟ陳三五娘

下午的<陳三五娘> *歌仔戲碼

看戲ㄟ儂攏無，

看戲的人一個也沒有

看戲ㄟ儂攏無，

看戲的人一個也沒有

鑼鼓聲聲聲塊慶團圓　

鑼鼓聲聲聲在慶賀團圓

台跤無一聲好

台下沒人叫好

台頂是攏全雨

台上卻到處都是雨

[elina]

semantic nuance,

I like this song and that song mentioned by you here:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/15-cctv-learn-chinese406,

and have listened to them several times today when working. But they seem both sad, then I turned to some other 活泼的 songs.

[semantic nuance]

I browsed my posts last night and found this post in 2007. This morning I translated it into English. If interested, you may check here.

[bhchao]

I like this song very much. Thanks for posting it.

[semantic nuance]

no problem, bhchao.