I.    Lyrics (translated from Chinese)

All the waits are only for golden-line chrysanthemum.
Smilingly and slowly blooms in cold nights.
Like fallen leaves in forest lightly comes down.
The greeting is as beautiful as the sound of water, only that it also has slightly resentful anger just like the wind,
Let people from the path that is bitten by ferns,
Are surprised to see the golden yellow moon light. And the brush woods left by woodcutters at dusk,
Coldly stagnates weathered sorrow.
When walking by, always lowers head and hair. Deliberate intention,
Is not able to pretend. In the creek water outside the forest,
Few drops of tear that closely clamber leaves of grass are now collapsing in the wind.
You ask me about duckweed’s logic, Ah, that is it.
Dew drops to the land and lightly signs.
And Chrysanthemum, especially the golden-line chrysanthemum is enduring to wait.
After the cold winter, the spring will come. I will wait all my life for your smile.

Lyrics written by Xiang Yang (向陽)

所有的等待 只為金線菊
微笑著在寒夜裡徐徐綻放
像林中的落葉輕輕 飄下
那種招呼 美如水聲　又微帶些風的怨嗔
讓人從蕨類咬住的小徑
驚見澄黃的月光 還有　傍晚樵夫遺下的柴枝
冷冷鬱結著的　褪了色的幽淒
走過總是垂髮低頭 故意
是裝不來的 林外的溪水
緊緊攀著草葉的幾滴淚　此刻在風中 瓦解了
妳問我浮萍的邏輯　阿 那就是吧
露珠向大地　沉墜的輕喟
而菊　尤其金線菊是耐於等待的
寒冬過了就是春天　我用一生來等妳的展顏

Video
吉娃斯

Audio
Chi Yu (齊豫)

Hsu Chien-Chun (徐芊君)

II.    Manuscript
 

Copied handwritten manuscript (page 1) of “Chrysanthemum Sigh in G major” for piano and voice (1980)	Copied handwritten manuscript (page 2) of “Chrysanthemum Sigh in G major” for piano and voice (1980)    影印1980 p.3	Copied handwritten manuscript (page 3) of “Chrysanthemum Sigh in G major” for piano and voice (1980)	Copied handwritten manuscript (page 4) of “Chrysanthemum Sigh in G major” for piano and voice (1980)

                

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