●C.S.ルイスが生み出したファンタジーの決定版といえば『ナルニア国物語(The Chronicles of Narnia)』。
第一次世界大戦の頃、空襲をさけてロンドンから疎開した四兄弟が見つけた不思議な衣装だんす。コートをかき分け奥に進むと、そこは雪の積もる別世界につながっていた…。『ライオンと魔女』をはじめとする7つの物語で構成された児童文学の傑作。
Silent night! Holy night!
All is calm, all is bright,
Round yon virgin Mother and Child.
Holy Infant, so tender and mild.
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Joy to the world, the Lord is come:
Let earth receive her King.
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and heaven, and nature sing.
Dashing through the snow
On a one-horse open sleigh,
Over the fields we go, Laughing all the way; Bells on bob-tail ring, making sprits bright, What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight, O
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way! O what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh (repeat)
作詞・作曲 J・S・ピアポント(アメリカ)
オリジナルの題名は「One Horse Open Sleigh」。1850年頃、ボストン在住の作曲家ジェームズ・ピアポントが、その町のサレム・ストリート(Salem Street)で行なわれるそり競争のために作った曲。
◆赤鼻のトナカイ*Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You know Dasher and Dancer
And Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid
And Donner and Blitzen.
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Play in any reindeer games
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
Then all the reindeer loved him
And they shouted out with glee
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
you'll go down in history!"