這首歌是南宋以來流行于江南吳地一帶的民歌。出自南宋建炎年間(1127—1130年),述民間離亂之苦。這首歌以問話的形式,揭露南宋統(tǒng)治階級在外族入侵時,對外實(shí)行不抵抗主義,對內(nèi)殘酷壓迫人民,偏安江南,過著驕奢淫逸的生活,使老百姓飽受離亂之苦。
無名氏·《吳歌》
月子彎彎照幾州?幾家歡樂幾家愁?
幾家夫婦同羅帳?幾家飄散在他州?
Folk Song of the Lower Yangtze Valley
(Southern Song Dynasty)
Anonymous
The crescent moon shines pale
On how many countries?
How many families are happy,
How many families are sad?
How many men and women
Are happily reunited,
And how many, how many,
Stay lost in strange, strange lands?