《The Story of Chess》歌词

[00:00:01] The Story Of Chess - Josh Groban (乔许·葛洛班)

[00:01:07] Arbiter:

[00:01:13] Each game of chess means there's one less

[00:01:18] Variation left to be played

[00:01:24] Each day got through means one or two

[00:01:30] Less mistakes remain to be made

[00:01:34] Ensemble:

[00:01:35] Not much is known

[00:01:36] Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report

[00:01:39] Male Solo:

[00:01:40] That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought

[00:01:43] Though brothers for a Hindu throne

[00:01:44] Female Solo:

[00:01:45] Their mother cried

[00:01:46] For no-one really likes their offspring fighting to the death

[00:01:49] She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath

[00:01:52] But sure enough one brother died

[00:01:54] Female Ensemble:

[00:01:55] Sad beyond belief

[00:01:55] She told her winning son

[00:01:57] Female Solo:

[00:01:58] You have caused such grief

[00:01:59] I can't forgive this evil thing you've done

[00:02:02] Male Ensemble:

[00:02:03] He tried to explain

[00:02:04] How things had really been

[00:02:06] Male Solo:

[00:02:06] But he tried in vain

[00:02:08] No words of his could mollify the queen

[00:02:11] Female Solo:

[00:02:11] And so he asked the wisest men he knew

[00:02:14] The way to lessen her distress

[00:02:16] Arbiter:

[00:02:16] They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress

[00:02:19] By using model soldiers on

[00:02:21] A chequered board to show it was his brother's fault

[00:02:24] They thus invented chess

[00:02:26] Male ensemble:

[00:02:26] Chess displayed no inertia

[00:02:32] Soon spread to Persia then west

[00:02:37] Female ensemble:

[00:02:37] Next the Arabs refined it

[00:02:43] Thus redesigned it progressed

[00:02:48] Male Solo:

[00:02:48] Still further yet

[00:02:50] And when Constantinople fell in 1453

[00:02:53] One would have noticed every other refugee

[00:02:56] Included in his bags a set

[00:02:58] Female Solo:

[00:02:58] Once in the hands

[00:02:59] And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance

[00:03:02] Male Solo:

[00:03:03] The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance

[00:03:05] Through all of Europe's vital lands

[00:03:07] Ensemble:

[00:03:07] Where we must record

[00:03:09] The game was further changed

[00:03:10] Right across the board

[00:03:12] The western touch upon the pieces ranged

[00:03:15] King and queen and rook

[00:03:17] And bishop knight and pawn

[00:03:19] All took on the look

[00:03:21] We know today the modern game was born

[00:03:24] Arbiter:

[00:03:24] And in the end

[00:03:26] We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan

[00:03:29] And boosted in the main by what is now Iran

[00:03:32] Become the simplest and most obligating pleasure

[00:03:35] Yet defies what just the kind of mind who would appreciate

[00:03:39] This well researched and fascinating yarn