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歌曲题目索引
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The Traditional Songs
A Bicycle Built For Two
Abolitionist Hymn
Adieu
Aloha Oe
America
America The Beautiful
Annie Laurie
Barbara Allen
Battle Hymn Of The Republic
BeanS, Bacon And Gravy
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Black And White
Black, Brown, And White Blues
Black Is The Color
Blow Ye Winds Of The Morning
Boola Song
Brother John
Buck-Eye Jim
Buffalo Gals
Bunker Hill
By The Waters Of Minnetonka
Careles, Love
Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
Casey Jone
Cherry Ripe
Chester
Clementine
Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean
Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies
Cook Hous
Cowboy Lullaby
Cradle Song
Cumberland Gap
Daddy Don't Go To The Mines
Dark A. A Dungeon
Darling Nelly Gray
De Boll Weevil
Deep River
Dixie
Do Lord, Remembier JVle
Donna, Donna
Down in The Valley
Dril, Ye Tarriers, Dril!
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
Ene Canal
Faithful Johnie
Follow The Drinking Gourd
Free Ameria
God Bless America
Go Down Mose
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad '
Good MorningtBlue
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Gotta Travel On
Graduation Song
Hail, Columbia
Hawaiian Farewell Song
Heab'n
He's Got The Whole World In His Hand
Hold The Fort
Home On The Range
Home, Sweet Home
House Of The Rising Sun
l Don' Want Your Million, Miste
If You Miss Me From The Back Of The Bu.
I Gave My Love A Cherry
l'll Fl Away
l'm Gonna Leave Old Texas Now
l'mOn My Way
In The Evening By The Moonlight
In The Gloatming
Irene, Good Night
Irish Lullaby
l've Been Working On The Railroad
Jarama
Jefferson And Liberty
Jesse James
Jim Crow
Jingle Bells
Joe Hill
Joe Turner Blues
John Brown's Bcxi.
John Henry
Just Before'The Battle, Mother
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kevin Barry
Kum-ba-ya
Land of My Father
Land Of The Silver Birch
Last Night l Had The Strangest Dream
Lincoln And Liberty
Little Bo-Peep
Little Boxes
Little Brown Jug
Loch Lomond
Lolly-Too-Dum-Day
Londonderry Air
Long, Long Ago
Love's Old Sweet Son,
Making Hay
Many Thousand Go
Marching Through Georgia
Marines' Hymn
Michael, Row The Boat Ashore
Midnight Special
Moonlight On The Colorado
My Bonnie
My Heart in The Highlands
My Maryland
My Rambling Boy
My Sweetheart's The Mule in The Mine
Nancy Till
Never Saicl A Mumbaling Word
Nobody knows The Trouble l've Seen
Now is The Month Of Maying
Ode To The Fourth Of July
Oh, Freedom
Oh, Mari
Oh, My Baby
Old Blue
O, Lovely Land
On Top Of Old Smoky
O, Sing To Me The Old Scotch Songs
O, Sleep, My Baby
Pack Up Your Sorrows
Pa On The Railway
Puff, The Magic Dragon
Pu My Little Shoes Away
Ring Around The Rosy
Robin Redbreast
Rock-a My Soul
Roll Along Prairie Moon
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Roll Out.Heave Dat Cotton
Ruse Of Tralee
Rosie Nell
She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain
Shenanduah
Silent Night
Silve Threads Among The Gold
Sing A Song Of Six Pence
Sioux Indiar
Sixteen Ton.
Skip To Mi Lou
Slavery Chain
Slow March
Sometimes l Feel Like A Motherles. Child
Soup Song
Stars Of The Summei Nigh
Steal Away
Sweet Genevieve
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Take This Hammer
Tenting Tonight
The Ash Grove
The Ballad Of Momtna Rosa Parks
The Battle Cry of Freedom
The Blue Of Scotland
The Blue-tail Fly
The Cuckoo
The Curtains Of Night
The Dreary Black Hills
The Drunkard's Doom
The Eight Hour Day
The Farmer is The Man
The Girl l Lef Behind Me
The Handcart Song
The Liberty Song
The Logger's Boast
The Old Brass Band
The Preacher And The Slave
There is Cheese
There'll Be Peace in The Valley For Me
There's Music in The Air
The Rich Man And The Poor Man
The Rio Grande
The Saugerties Bard
The Sow Took The Measles
The Spanish Cavalier
The Wreck Of The Old 97
Those Evening Bell
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp'
Turkey in The Straw
Turtle Dove
Two Little Chilciren
Two Little Flowers
Wate Boy
Wayfanng Stranger
W Shall Not Be Moved
We Shall Overcome
Whar Did You Learn in School Today?
What Have They Done To The Rain
What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
Whcn it's Spring Time In The Rockies
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When The Moon Come Over The Mountain
Wber The Roses Come Again
When The Snow Is On The Ground
When You And l Were Young.Maggie
Which Side Are You On?
Whik Strolling Through The Park One Day
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
Will You Come To The Bower?
Work.For The Night I Coming
Worried Man
Yankce Doodle
Yea Of Jubilo
Zuni Sunrisc Song
Alice Hawthorne
Abraham's Daughter
Listen To The Mocking Bird
Whispering Hope
Pete Seeger
If I Had A Hammer
Money is King
Turn! Turn! Turn!
We'll All Be A-doubling
Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Stephen Collins P'oster
Bcautiful Dreame
C'om Where My Love lies Dreaming
Hard Time.Come Again No More
Jeanie With The light Brown Hair
Massa' s in D Colcl Ground
My Old Kcntucky Homt
Oh Susaiina
Old Black Joe
Old Dog Tray
Old Folk At Home
Old Uncl Ned
Open Thy Lattice.Love
Thoma Moor
Believe Me.lf All Those Endearing Young Charm."
The Last Rose Of Summer
The Minstrel Boy
Woodly Guthrie
Go To Sleep My Little Hobo
Jack Harnmer John
Roll On, Columbia
This Land Is You Land
So Long, It' s Been Good To Knuw You
The National Anthems Of English Countries
America
The Sta spangled Banner
Australia
Advance Australi Fai
Canada
0 C'anada
Great Britain
God Save Th Queen
Irish Republic
The Soldier's Song
New Zealand
God Defend New Zealand
The Songs In Mows And Plays
Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
A Groovy King Of Love
All The Way
Anniversary Song
Around The World
As Time Goes By
A Summer Palace
A Time For U
Auld Lang Syne
A Very Precious Love
A Whole New World
A Woman in Love
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Beauty And The Beast
Best Tha You Can Do
Be There
Blow,BLow.Thou Winter Wind
Blue Moon
Born Free
Buttons And Bows
Call Me irresponsible
Can You Read My Mind
Caro Name
Casablanca
Charade
Chim Chim Cheree
Clara's Lullaby
Climb Every Mountain
Come Saturday Morning
Wler You Are
You're Still M Man
Willie Nelson
On The Road Again
Wil on Phillips
Release M
You Are In Iovr
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这本书的结构简直是一团乱麻，完全无法理解编者的思路。我试图寻找一个清晰的时间轴或者按流派分类的逻辑，但每次翻开，都像是在随机抽取一张扑克牌。今天可能是某一小撮乡村音乐家的歌词摘录，明天可能就跳跃到了某个先锋电子乐团的访谈片段。这种缺乏稳定锚点的阅读体验，让我的求知欲不断受挫。我原本以为“全集”意味着一种完整的、可供查阅的数据库，至少得有个像样的索引或者清晰的版权标注。但这本书在这两方面都表现得令人汗颜。索引部分缺失得令人发指，你想找某位歌手的任何一首歌，唯一的办法就是从头到尾地翻，如同大海捞针。而关于版权和出处的标注，更是含糊不清，很多歌曲的来源地和首次发行年份都语焉不详，甚至在一些关键的时代背景描述中，也出现了明显的时代错位。比如，它错误地将某些七十年代的音乐现象归咎于八十年代的社会变革，这种硬伤的出现，让我对全书内容的严谨性产生了巨大的怀疑。一本严肃的音乐文献，最起码应该做到史实准确，但这本书在这方面显然是疏忽大意了。读者花费了时间和金钱，期待的是一份可靠的资料，而不是一本充满个人臆断和事实错误的“拼凑品”。这种体验，让我感觉自己更像是一个未经授权的盗版内容检查员，而不是一个愉快的读者。
从物理层面上来说，这本书的设计也是一个不小的败笔，这直接影响了阅读的连贯性。它实在太厚重了，而且内页的纸张虽然纸质不错，但装订方式却显得过于僵硬。你几乎无法把它平摊在桌面上，每次阅读时，书脊都会用力地弹回来，试图合拢，这使得你在抄写歌词或者对照参考时，必须一手死死按住书页，另一只手才能进行操作。这对于一本旨在被频繁翻阅和使用的“参考全集”来说，简直是设计上的反人类行为。想象一下，如果你想在弹吉他时参考里面的和弦谱（尽管这本书里和弦谱少得可怜），你根本没办法让它保持打开状态。此外，由于内容涵盖了从古至今的庞大范围，很多关键的乐理知识点和术语解释，都被压缩在极小的篇幅里，或者干脆以脚注的形式出现，阅读体验极度破碎。它没有一个很好的“用户引导”系统。例如，对于一个初学者，他需要一个清晰的指引，从哪里开始听起，哪些歌是入门必备；而对于资深乐迷，他们则需要深入的、独特的解析。这本书似乎在努力讨好所有人，结果却让所有人都不满意。它更像是一个被强行塞满了海量信息的、不透气的“数据仓库”，而不是一个能引导你享受音乐旅程的“向导”。带着这种物理上的不适感和内容上的疏离感，这次阅读体验最终变成了一次沉重的“负重前行”。
这本厚重的合集摆在书架上，光是它的名字——《英文歌曲全集》——就足以让人心潮澎湃，仿佛能闻到旧唱片散发出的温暖气息。我原本是带着一种朝圣般的心情去翻阅它的，期待能在这里找到那些定义了无数个日夜的旋律，那些陪伴我度过青涩时光、失落时刻的歌词。然而，当我迫不及待地打开扉页，试图在目录中寻找我最爱的那些经典，比如披头士的《Yesterday》或是皇后乐队的《Bohemian Rhapsody》时，我发现了一个令人困惑的现象。这本书似乎更像是一个宏大的、但方向有些模糊的“概览”，它更侧重于对英文歌曲发展脉络的理论性梳理，而不是我所渴求的——那些具体、可供吟唱的歌词和乐谱。里面充斥着大量的关于“战后民谣复兴”、“七十年代摇滚乐的社会影响”之类的学术性探讨，引用的案例大多是晦涩难懂的早期独立厂牌作品，那些脍炙人口的“金曲”几乎没有露面。这就像是买了一本烹饪大全，结果里面全是关于食材起源和发酵原理的生物学分析，而你真正想学的是如何煎出一个完美的荷包蛋。我花了好大力气才弄明白，这并非是我的理解有误，而是作者的视角就设定在了宏观的音乐社会学层面。它试图构建的是一幅完整的英文歌曲历史图景，但对听众而言，这种宏大叙事往往冲淡了音乐本身带来的那种最直接、最感性的冲击力。如果我想要一本学术参考资料，它或许合格，但作为一本“全集”，它完全错失了让读者沉浸其中的那份亲密感和实用性。
老实说，拿到这本《英文歌曲全集》后，我的第一反应是“这玩意儿是哪个年代的产物？”它的装帧和排版风格，散发着一股浓厚的、八十年代末或九十年代初的复古气息，那种厚重的纸张和略微泛黄的墨水味，让人联想到图书馆深处的珍藏。我抱着极大的好奇心翻开它，希望能从中挖掘出一些被主流市场遗忘的瑰宝，或者至少是那些伴随着卡带机一起成长的老歌的完整收录。然而，翻阅的过程简直是一场与“期待落差”的持续搏斗。这本书的内容组织逻辑极其跳跃，它似乎在努力包罗万象，从早期的蓝调布鲁斯到后来的英伦摇滚，但每一个流派都只是蜻蜓点水般地提及，缺乏深入的挖掘和精彩的选例。更令人沮丧的是，它在曲目选择上显得极其随意和偏科。比如，在提及八十年代的流行金曲时，书中花了大量的篇幅去介绍一些在北美或欧洲之外几乎无人知晓的小众乐队的B面歌曲，却对那些席卷全球的超级巨星的作品避而不谈，仿佛这些“大路货”不入作者的法眼。这种近乎“反主流”的选择倾向，使得这本书的参考价值大打折扣。对于一个想系统学习流行音乐演变脉络的普通爱好者来说，这种资料无疑是混乱且低效的。它更像是一位极其个性化的音乐发烧友的个人笔记，而不是一本面向大众的“全集”。如果真的要称之为“全集”，那它也只收录了作者自己认可的“全集”，而非工业界公认的经典曲目列表。
我必须得说，这本书的“全”字，完全是一种夸大其词的宣传手法。当我翻到那些我极为熟悉的音乐时期时，例如新浪潮（New Wave）或Grunge的鼎盛时期，我惊讶地发现，其中收录的歌曲名单是如此的单薄和具有局限性。就好像一个美食评论家写了一本“世界顶级餐厅指南”，结果里面只收录了他在自己家后院开的小餐馆的菜单。以新浪潮为例，它理应涵盖像The Police、Duran Duran、Talking Heads 这样定义了一个时代的乐队，但这本书里，这些乐队的代表作要么缺席，要么只是一笔带过，取而代之的是大量晦涩难懂的、在小众地下场景中活跃过的名字。这并不是说小众音乐不重要，而是“全集”的定位要求它必须涵盖主流的核心曲库。如果作者的目的是想要展示他个人对某几个特定小众流派的偏爱，那么书名应该改为《我钟爱的某几类英文歌曲集萃》，而不是用“全集”来误导广大的音乐爱好者。更糟糕的是，对于那些被收录的歌曲，很多时候它只给出了歌词，但对旋律的描述、和声的走向，甚至是歌曲的情感基调的分析，都显得过于模板化和空洞，缺乏真正的音乐性洞察。读完之后，我感觉自己对这些歌的了解程度，还不如听我收藏的那几张老磁带带来的直观感受要深刻。
