[00:00.00] 作曲 : Creager[00:18.90]In the spring of 1315,[00:25.29]There began an era of unpredictable weather.[00:31.77]It did not lift until 1851.[00:36.84]You remember 1816 as the year without a summer[00:47.01]June 1816,[00:49.41]A sudden snowstorm blankets all the countryside,[00:55.62]So Mary Shelley had to stay inside and she wrote Frankenstein,[01:00.84]Oh, 1816 was the year without a summer.[01:21.09]Grain couldn't ripen under these conditions,[01:26.79]It was brought indoors in urns and pots.[01:32.49]It'd go from ninety-five degrees to freezing within hours,[01:38.70]A brutal struggle for the people and the starving livestock.[02:01.17]During the most severe years of this little ice age[02:07.62]We looked for scapegoats to blame.[02:12.18]Many people tried to blame it all on a vast Freemason conspiracy,[02:17.91]Or Benjamin Franklin and his experiments with electricity.[02:26.55]The eruption of the volcano Tambora[02:28.95]Blanketed the earth with ash.[02:37.50]That was a real cause discovered by some explorer[02:43.44]Years later, looking back at the past.[03:05.64]I will give you my red colour[03:08.49]To take away your sickly pallor.[03:11.10]For you are so very choleric of complexion,[03:14.55]Please beware the mounting sun and all dejection.[03:17.64]1816 was the year without a summer.