所属专辑:Allan Sherman — Live!!! (Hoping You Are The Same)
歌手: Allan Sherman
时长: 01:16
A Few Words About the Chinese New Year - Allan Sherman[00:00:00]
Now this next song[00:00:00]
Was a big hit comedy song before I was born [00:00:02]
And I took this song and modernized it [00:00:05]
I hope [00:00:08]
The hero of the song was originally Jewish [00:00:09]
And I made him Chinese[00:00:12]
Which is no small achievement [00:00:14]
Actually [00:00:15]
Uh and the reason I did that[00:00:17]
Was that a couple months ago [00:00:19]
In January I was appearing in San Francisco [00:00:20]
And it happened to be during the Chinese New Year [00:00:23]
And I learned that to the Chinese people [00:00:26]
This is the year 4664 [00:00:29]
And of course to the Jewish people [00:00:32]
This is the year 5726 [00:00:33]
Which means that for 1062 years [00:00:36]
Jewish people have had to do their own laundry [00:00:40]
Now this is a very tender [00:00:53]
Poignant song actually [00:00:54]
It's beautiful if you want to know [00:00:56]
I figure I better tell you it's beautiful[00:00:58]
Before I start singing it [00:00:59]
Because once I start[00:01:01]
You'll have no way of knowing that it's beautiful [00:01:01]
This is a song about a man who walks into a tailor [00:01:06]
And tells him a very sad story [00:01:10]
And it goes like this[00:01:13]