| 词条 | Mallard Song |
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The Mallard Song is an ancient tradition of All Souls' College, Oxford. Every year it is sung at the Bursar's Dinner in March and the college's Gaudy in November. But it is also sung once a century, in a special ceremony. The ceremonyIn the ceremony, Fellows parade around the College with flaming torches, led by a "Lord Mallard" who is carried in a chair, in search of a giant mallard that supposedly flew out of the foundations of the college when it was being built in 1437. The procession is led by an individual carrying a duck — originally dead, now just wooden — tied to the end of a vertical pole. The ceremony was last held in 2001, with Martin Litchfield West acting as Lord Mallard. His predecessor as Lord Mallard was Cosmo Lang, who presided over the centenary ceremony in 1901.[1][2][3] The songThe words of the song are as follows: The Griffine, Bustard, Turkey & Capon Lett other hungry Mortalls gape on And on theire bones with Stomacks fall hard, But lett All Souls' Men have ye Mallard. CHORUS: Hough the bloud of King Edward, By ye bloud of King Edward, It was a swapping, swapping mallard! Some storys strange are told I trow By Baker, Holinshead & Stow Of Cocks & Bulls, & other queire things That happen'd in ye Reignes of theire Kings. CHORUS The Romans once admir'd a gander More than they did theire best Commander, Because hee saved, if some don't foolle us, The place named from ye Scull of Tolus. CHORUS The Poets fain'd Jove turn'd a Swan, But lett them prove it if they can. To mak't appeare it's not att all hard: Hee was a swapping, swapping mallard. CHORUS Hee was swapping all from bill to eye, Hee was swapping all from wing to thigh; His swapping tool of generation Oute swapped all ye wingged Nation. CHORUS Then lett us drink and dance a Galliard in ye Remembrance of ye Mallard, And as ye Mallard doth in Poole, Let's dabble, dive & duck in Boule. CHORUS NotesThe word "swapping", repeatedly used in the chorus, is a now-obsolete use from Middle English meaning "striking" (as in "what a remarkably big duck that is!"). The identity of King Edward in the song is not known; it could refer to any of the five English monarchs of that name (three numbered, and two earlier monarchs) up to the time the song was created. The reference to "Jove turn'd a Swan" refers to the mythical incident in which the Roman god Jupiter transformed himself into a swan to seduce Queen Leda. Not surprisingly, the Victorians disapproved of the reference to the mallard's "swapping tool of generation", mightier than any other in "ye wingged Nation" (of birds). They dropped this verse from the song, but to the delight of traditionalists, it was restored in the 2001 ceremony. (And apparently this honour does indeed belong to a duck, though not a mallard. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705053719/http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/~kevin_mccracken/reprints/auk-117-820.pdf]) The last two lines are an invitation to the singers to retire to a convenient watering-hole. They could be paraphrased as saying "in much the same way as the Mallard dives into a pond, let us dive into a drinking bowl." Folk SongA folksong (Roud 1517) found in southern England is an accumulative song about the body of the mallard.[4][5] References1. ^{{cite news | first1=Linus | last1=Gregoriadis | first2=Sean | last2=O'Neill | title=Mallard Leads Oxford Fellows a Merry Dance | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1314859/Mallard-leads-Oxford-fellows-a-merry-dance.html | agency= | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=15 January 2001 | accessdate=26 April 2011}} 2. ^{{cite news | first1=Donald | last1=MacLeod | title=Oxford Dons Go Quackers | url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jan/12/highereducation.donaldmacleod | agency= | newspaper=The Guardian | date=12 January 2001 | accessdate=26 April 2011}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Horan|first=David|authorlink=|title=Oxford: A Cultural and Literary Companion|pages=55–56|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wR8nb-LYHBMC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=Cosmo+Lang+mallard#v=onepage&q=Cosmo%20Lang%20mallard&f=false|publisher=Signal Books Limited|location=Oxford|year=1999|isbn=9781902669052}} 4. ^Palmer, Roy (1979). Everyman's Book of English Country Songs. London: J. M. Dent 5. ^{{cite web |url=https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Keith-Summers-Collection/025M-C1002X0090XX-5600V0 |title=The mallard |last=Summers |first=Keith |date=2009-05-06 |website=Keith Summers English Folk Music Collection |publisher=British Library |access-date=2018-07-10}} External links
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