簡介
這是一首澳大利亞流傳頗廣的民歌。澳大利亞以生產羊毛而著稱，這首《剪羊毛》描寫了澳大利亞牧場工人緊張的勞動生活和樂觀的精神面貌。歌曲中用了很多美麗的形象生動的詞來表現歌曲，比如說“白雲、冬雪、絲棉”來比喻羊毛，把綿羊身上厚厚的比喻成皮襖，非常有意思。中文版由顧冠仁編配。
英文歌詞
Out on the board the old shearer stands
Grasping his shears in his long bony hands
Fixed is his gaze on a bare-bellied "joe"
Glory if he gets her, won't he make the ringer go
CHORUS副歌：
Click go the shears boys, click, click, click
Wide is his blow and his hands move quick
The ringer looks around and is beaten by a blow
And curses the old snagger with the blue-bellied "joe"
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In the middle of the floor in his cane-bottomed chair
Is the boss of the board, with eyes everywhere
Notes well each fleece as it comes to the screen
Paying strict attention if it's taken off clean
The colonial-experience man he is there, of course
With his shiny leggin's just got off his horse
Casting round his eye like a real connoisseur
Whistling the old tune "I'm the Perfect Lure"
The tar-boy is there awaiting in demand
With his blackened tar-pot and his tarry hand
Sees one old sheep with a cut upon its back
Here's what he's waiting for "Tar here Jack!"
Shearing is all over and we've all got our cheques
Roll up your swag for we're off on the tracks
The first pub we come to it's there we'll have a spree
And everyone that comes along it's, "Come and drink with me!"
Down by the bar the old shearer stands
Grasping his glass in his thin bony hands
Fixed is his gaze on a green-painted keg
Glory he'll get down on it ere he stirs a peg
There we leave him standing, shouting for all hands
Whilst all around him every shouter stands
His eyes are on the cask which is now lowering fast
He works hard he drinks hard and goes to hell at last
You take off the belly-wool clean out the crutch
Go up the neck for the rules they are such
You clean round the horns first shoulder go down
One blow up the back and you then turn around
Click, click, that's how the shears go
Click, click, so awfully quick
You pull out a sheep he'll give a kick
And still hear your shears going click, click, click
中文歌詞
河那邊草原呈現白色一片,
好像是白雲從天空飄臨,
你看那周圍雪堆像冬天,
這是我們在剪羊毛剪羊毛.
潔白的羊毛像絲綿,
鋒利的剪子咔嚓響,
只要我們大家努力來勞動,
幸福生活一定來到來到.
綿羊你別發抖呀你別害怕,
不要擔心你的舊皮襖,
炎熱的夏天你用不到它,
秋天你又穿上新皮襖新皮襖.
潔白的羊毛像絲綿,
鋒利的剪子咔嚓響,
剪羊毛只要我們大家努力來勞動,
幸福生活一定來到來到.
河那邊草原呈現白色一片,
好像是白雲從天空飄臨,
你看那周圍雪堆像冬天,
這是我們在剪羊毛剪羊毛.
潔白的羊毛像絲綿,
鋒利的剪子咔嚓響,
只要我們大家努力來勞動,
幸福生活一定來到來到.
剪羊毛簡譜綿羊你別發抖呀你別害怕,
不要擔心你的舊皮襖,
炎熱的夏天你用不到它,
秋天你又穿上新皮襖新皮襖.
潔白的羊毛像絲綿,
鋒利的剪子咔嚓響,
只要我們大家努力來勞動,
幸福生活一定來到來到.
