[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.70]Shelling Green Peas - Stanley Holloway [00:05.95]Under the trees  a bowl on her knees [00:10.65]Maria sat silently shelling green peas [00:15.89]Under the trees  a bowl on her knees [00:20.67]Maria sat silently shelling green peas [00:25.95]I sing you a ditty  of a damsel so pretty [00:31.10]Who liv'd from the city [00:33.43]Some seventeen miles [00:36.09]Her name is Maria  her worthy old sire [00:41.63]Was clerk and town [00:43.18]Crier-his name was John Styles [00:47.12]With lips like the cherry [00:49.40]A smile  too  so merry [00:51.96]I thought her the very [00:54.50]One suited to please [00:57.55]And when I first met her [01:00.18]And tried hard to get her [01:02.99]For worse or for better [01:05.50]She was shelling green peas [01:09.30]Under the trees  a bowl on her knees [01:14.24]Maria sat silently shelling green peas [01:23.01]I'd long lov'd her dearly  truly  sincerely [01:28.65]At length I thought  really  I'd settle in life [01:33.99]Although aged fifty  I'd been very thrifty [01:39.11]And thought 'twas high time [01:41.75]To be taking a wife [01:44.50]With bosom on fire  in search of Maria [01:48.69]Thro' lanes of wild-brier [01:51.06]O'er-shadowed by trees [01:53.76]I stroll'd to the spot where [01:56.49]Outside her cot there [01:59.14]She was sitting [02:00.39]So patiently shelling green peas [02:05.69]Under the trees  a bowl on her knees [02:10.69]Maria sat silently shelling green peas [02:20.58]I step up unto her  commencing to woo her [02:26.01]I said That no truer [02:28.42]Fond heart could be found [02:31.16]Than mine  if she'd take me [02:33.62]Some morning  and make me [02:36.44]The happiest mortal for twenty miles round [02:41.61]I said Our life might [02:43.98]Be one round of delight [02:46.47]Like the little birds singing [02:49.19]Upon the green trees [02:52.00]To a whisper then dropping my voice [02:55.91]Without stopping [02:57.91]The question was popping [03:01.04]As she popped the peas [03:05.87]Under the trees  a bowl on her knees [03:10.42]Maria sat silently shelling green peas [03:16.00]Under the trees  a bowl on her knees [03:21.15]Maria sat silently shelling green peas