小波比

小波比
樂譜
童謠
出版	約1805年

《小波比》（英語：Little Bo-Peep），英語童謠，勞德民歌索引編號為6487。

歌詞及旋律

《小波比》在口耳相傳中歌詞多有變化，現代最常見的版本是：

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,

and doesn't know where to find them;

leave them alone, And they'll come home,

wagging (bringing) their tails behind them.

小波比丟失了她的羊，

她不知到哪裡去尋找；

羊會回來，我不用煩惱，

連尾巴也不會缺少。

華特·克藍《小波比》，作於約1885年 播放^ⓘ

第二行有時也作"And can't tell where to find them"。第四行常作"Bringing their tails behind them"，有時也作"Dragging their tails behind them"。童謠的旋律最早於1870年被作曲家、童謠收集者詹姆斯·威廉·埃利奧錄下，見於National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs。

以下四節也常被加到歌詞中：

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,

and dreamt she heard them bleating;

but when she awoke, she found it a joke,

for they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,

determined for to find them;

she found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,

for they'd left their tails behind them.

It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray

into a meadow hard by,

there she espied their tails side by side,

all hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,

and over the hillocks went rambling,

and tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,

to tack each again to its lambkin.

小波比甜蜜地睡着了，

在夢中她聽見羊叫；

她醒過來，就覺得好笑，

原來羊還在外面奔跑。

她馬上拿起牧羊棍，

下決心把羊群找到；

那羊找到了，但情況不妙，

因為羊的尾巴都掉了。

（此節無翻譯）

小波比嘆息擦眼淚，

她跑遍所有的山崗；

她只能夠儘自己力量，

把羊的尾巴縫上。

起源及歷史

童謠的最早記錄見於1805年左右的一份手稿中，原文中稱呼「小波比」只是因為她個子矮小而不是因為她年齡小，未成年。16世紀有一種兒童遊戲叫做波比，一般認為即指躲貓貓，莎士比亞的《李爾王》第一幕第四場也有所提及（Then they for sudden joy did weep, / And I for sorrow sung, / That such a king should play bo-peep / And go the fools among. 朱生豪譯：她們高興得眼淚盈眶，／我只好唱歌自遣哀愁，／可憐你堂堂一國之王，／卻跟傻瓜們作伴嬉遊。），但沒有證據表明這首童謠早於18世紀就已經存在了。末四節則最早見於1810年書籍Gammer Gurton's Garland; Or, The Nursery Parnassus。