[00:00.000] 作词 : AaronW[00:01.000] 作曲 : AaronW[00:02.000] 编曲 : AaronW[00:05.281]Lullaby for the Valley Girl[00:28.947]Fingering through the dewed grass[00:37.748]That cool tickle brings me back[00:46.681]When I was a young and lonely child[00:50.770]Grandma used to sing me this lullaby[00:55.220]About a valley and a flaxen hair girl[00:58.680]At the night her most loved one die[01:11.708]The valley was paved with yellow daffodils[01:20.603]A tiny cabin on a sunny little hill[01:29.331]Three goats and a puppy by the creek[01:33.384]Where sits the girl in white dress with blue stripes[01:37.852]Woven by her mother of last year’s wool[01:42.219]And the name of her father was lost in the war[01:57.029]Every morning waken by crows at the break of dawn[02:05.672]A bucket of goat milk and eggs of some[02:14.174]Chased the shrinking shadow of the trees[02:18.586]Over the hill with some mud on their knees[02:22.624]At the market, they sold everything they brought[02:26.941]Because their very days had to go on[02:41.300]Every night when the still vail floated down[02:50.213]Her mother would sit by her bed and hum this song[02:58.739]It went like this do do do do do[03:03.377]Ta ta ta ta do do do[03:07.589]Da da da da da da[03:11.945]Do do do do do do ta ta ta ta[03:26.166]One day when the crimson sun dwelled into the ground[03:34.660]A slim silhouette trotted to come[03:42.602]A knock on the door, the girl answered the call[03:50.252]The boy laid a nameplate into her palm[03:51.700]Her eyes looked up, frail but sound[03:55.887]“It’s his only belonging on that day we found”[04:10.246]Moon was climbing, he had walked through the day[04:18.732]The stew was bubbling, they invited him to stay[04:27.323]Beneath the table wagged the puppy beside his plate[04:31.655]Candle lights flickered as her vision hid away[04:36.024]It was like back to the time in a frame[04:40.348]The long-empty chair was taken again[05:02.575]Her arms were tangled in hair-like air[05:11.460]Bitter and salty, oozed the smell of tear[05:19.602]A smiling old lady was slumping from her stick[05:27.888]A man shot through head was digging his own grave[05:35.896]And a boy, like sand, was blown off by winds[05:53.846]Gentle sun caressed her when she came back from her dream[06:11.886]They sat in silence and she stared at the floor[06:20.480]The night before, laugh seemed to last forevermore[06:29.050]Mother packed the boy some bread and cheese[06:33.378]A gentle farewell resounded in the morning breeze[06:37.722]She peeked at her grandma’s picture on the shelf[06:42.011]When the boy stepped out the door[06:56.406]New leaves held new dew as the new spring came[07:04.813]More had passed and this one would do the same[07:13.342]She had an empty bucket in her hands[07:17.189]Some blue had faded from her dress[07:22.088]They returned home as usual before sunset[07:26.370]In the gilded air, there was one letter on the doorstep[07:40.805]The girl picked up the letter and hid it in her pocket[07:49.391]Her mother silently smiled at this little secret[07:58.320]As always she waited until late at night[08:02.208]She unfolded the letter and sat on her bed[08:07.117]Across the nightstand her mother was asleep[08:10.831]In the flickering candlelight, she saw the boy’s name[08:25.511]"When we met years ago, you sang me a song"[08:34.113]"The doctor just told me I may not last too long"[08:42.845]"Now cool and bright, the moon in the sky"[08:47.131]"A dog barks a foreign sound throughout the night"[08:51.517]"There’s not much my words can tell"[08:55.666]"Just want you to know, I remember you well"[09:09.965]When the candle was blown off, her mother’s breath was calm[09:18.754]She folded it in a book, and the lullaby was quietly hummed[09:27.491]Do do do do do do do do do[09:31.958]Ta ta ta ta do do do[09:36.024]Da da da da da da[09:40.295]Do do do do do do ta ta ta ta