初戀約妮成了我好朋友的新娘(Joni don't cry)

萬湖小舟 (萬維博客)

西人浪漫。這首愛情歌曲"Jonni don't cry" (約妮莫哭)直白，詼諧和風趣。歌詞採用雙行押韻即aabb的形式。如果直譯成中文就失去了它的風味。就像把中文的律詩譯成英語沒有味道一樣。不同的語言各有千秋和特色。翻譯只能了解大概，大多失去了原汁原味。加上翻譯歌詞在音節數上可能也有一定的要求，翻譯不容易。只是今天是西人的情人節，湊個趣，嘗試一下，看能不能保持英語雙行的原韻。時間倉促，沒來得及仔細推敲。祝大家情人節快樂。

Joni was the girl who lived next door      約妮是住在鄰居家的花朵 
I've known her I guess 10 years or more     認識她大約已有10年之多 
Joni wrote me a note one day            約妮一天給了我張便貼 
And this is what she had to say          她心裡住着一隻小蝴蝶 
 

Jimmy please say you'll wait for me       吉米請等我在時間的長堤 
I'll grow up someday you'll see          某天我會長大讓你着迷
Savin' all my kisses just for you         為你我保存了所有的初吻愛慕 
Signed with love forever true           步入清澈愛河的長途 

Slowly I read her note once more          細讀着她的便條感慨良多 
Then I went over to the house next door     決定去鄰居家伶惜花朵 
Her teardrops fell like rain that day       她的淚像那天的雨傾瀉 
When I told Joni what I had to say         當我說約妮不能和你相約 

Joni, Joni, please don't cry             約妮，約妮莫哭呆 
You'll forget me by and by              你忘掉我會很快 
You're just fifteen I'm twenty two         我二十二，你才十五 
Joni I just can't wait for you           約妮我若等你會很苦 

Soon I left our little home town          很快我離開了小城家鄉 
Got me a job and tried to settle down       得到工作充滿定居的希望 
But her words kept haunting my memory       可她的話一直在我心中傳遞 
The words that Joni said to me           約妮的言語是那樣的甜蜜 

Jimmy please say you'll wait for me        吉米請等我在時間的長堤 
I'll grow up someday you'll see           某天我會長大讓你着迷 
Savin' all my kisses just for you          為你我保存了所有的初吻愛慕
Signed with love forever true             步入清澈愛河的長途 

I packed my clothes and I caught a plane    打好背包飛機上我興奮難掩 
I had to see Joni, I had to explain        去看約妮要當面和她暢談 
How my heart was filled with her memory     告訴她我心裡不能沒有你 
And ask my Joni if she'd marry me         向約妮求婚說出我的秘密 

I ran all the way to the house next door    我一路奔跑入鄰居家落座 
But things weren't like they were before    然而時過境遷讓我好難過 
My teardrops fell like rain that day       我的淚像那天的雨傾瀉 
When I heard what Joni had to say         當約妮說不能和我相約 

Jimmy Jimmy please don't cry             吉米，吉米莫哭呆， 
You'll forget me by and by              你忘掉我會很快 
It's been five years since you've been gone   過去的五年是多麼漫長
Jimmy I married your best friend John.      我已是你好朋友約翰的新娘