甜蜜的家庭 Tianmi de jiating/ Home Sweet Home
In the song, 蘭 lan refers to orchid and 桂 gui refers to sweet tea olive/Osmanthus fragrans. These are lovely fragrant flowers.
甜蜜的家庭我的家庭真可愛整潔美滿又安康姐妹兄弟很和氣父母都慈祥雖然沒有好花園春蘭秋桂常飄香雖然沒有大廳堂冬天溫暖夏天涼可愛的家庭呀我不能離開你你的恩惠比天長 |
Home Sweet HomeMy home is so lovableTidy, wholesome, peaceful and healthyBrothers and sister are so harmoniousFather mother both are kindEven though we don’t have a good gardenWe smell sweet spring orchids and autumn osmanthusEven though there are no big hallsIn winter we are warm and in summer we are coolAh! My beloved homeI can never forsake youYour merits are longer than the heavens |
Here is a version in simplified chinese mandarin and hanyu pinyin:
甜蜜的家庭我的家庭真可爱整洁美满又安康兄弟姐妹很和气父母都慈祥虽然没有好花园春兰秋桂长飘香虽然没有大厅堂冬天温暖夏天凉可爱的家庭呀我不离开你你的恩惠比天长 |
Tianmi de JiatingWo de jiating zhen keaiZengjie meiman you ankangXiongde jiemei hen heqiFumu dou cixiangShuiran meiyou hao huayuanChunlan qiugui chang piao xiangShuiran meiyou da tingtangDongtian wennuan xiatian liangKeai de jiatingyaWo buneng likai niNide enhui bi tian chang |
The original English version (the lyrics do not match with the Chinese Children’s song in mandarin above):
Home Sweet Home
Words by John Howard Payne, music by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, from the operetta “Clari”
Mid Pleasures and palaces though I may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home;
A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek thro’ the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere. Home.
Home! Sweet, sweet home!
There’s no place like home.
There’s no place like home.
An exile from home, spendor dazzles in vain,
Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again;
The birds singing gaily, that come at my call;
Give me them, with that peace of mind, dearer than all.
CHORUS
To thee, I’ll return, overburdened with care,
The heart’s dearest solace will smile on me there.
No more from that cottage again will I roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.
The home that Payne wrote of was a little cottage in East Hampton, Long Island. The song was first heard in London in his play “Clari” in 1823. The aria had appeared in an early collection of Bishop’s as a Sicilian tune. The theme of the song and the beauty of the melody have given it world-wide fame.
Enjoy this calm and soothing version from the award-winning Beijing Angelic Choir:
52 我的家 童謠兒歌教唱 aa717034 華鏘
Thank you aa717034 for uploading this cartoon song on youtube.com!
Dame Joan Sutherland performing Bishop/Payne’s “Home! Sweet Home!” from her 1990 farewell performance at the Sydney Opera House.
Home Sweet Home, sung by Kiri Te Kanawa, in her native Maori.
Composed by Arr.Bishop
New Zealand Wellington outdoors Concert in 1990.
New Zealand symphony orchestra.
Conducted by John Hopkins.
Composed by Arr.Bishop
New Zealand Wellington outdoors Concert in 1990.
New Zealand symphony orchestra.
Conducted by John Hopkins.
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