February 23,2006

Kenny Rogers

男人唱鄉村歌曲, 好像都要留著大把鬍子才有滄桑味.

Kenny Rogers, 大家應該都有了. 今天無聊, 炒炒冷飯無妨.

他的歌, 品味參差不齊, 有很好聽的抒情歌曲, 也有類似吉馬大對唱的無聊歌曲, 居然還拿過排行榜冠軍...........哼, 你可能知道我講哪一首.


我們挑好聽的出來就好. She believes in me.  歌詞簡單動人, 好聽的情歌.

While she lays sleeping, I stay out late at night and play my songs
And sometimes all the nights can be so long
And it's good when I finally make it
home, all alone
While she lays dreaming, I try to get undressed without the light
And quietly she says how was your night?
And I come to her and say,
it was all right, and I hold her tight

And she believes in me, I'll never
know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl, I could
change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in
me, and so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special
night, if my song is right
I will find a way, find a way...

While she lays waiting, I stumble to the kitchen for a bite
Then I see my old guitar in the night
Just waiting for me like a secret friend, and there's no end
While she lays crying, I fumble with a melody or two
And I'm torn
between the things that I should do
And she says to wake her up when I am
through,
God her love is true...

And she believes in me, I'll never
know just what she sees in me
I told her someday if she was my girl, I could
change the world
With my little songs, I was wrong
But she has faith in
me, and so I go on trying faithfully
And who knows maybe on some special
night, if my song is right
I will find a way, while she waits... while she
waits for me!

另一首好聽的情歌, you decorated my life

再來一首 coward of the county. 這是一首講故事的歌曲. 行板速度. 故事很可憐而感人. 歌詞值得一貼. 大家讀讀吧. 就當是聽故事. 我以前常常看到快掉淚.


Ev'ryone considered him the coward of the county.
He'd never stood one single
time to prove the county wrong.
His mama named him Tommy, the folks just
called him yellow,
But something always told me they were reading Tommy wrong.

He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison.
I took care of Tommy 'cause he was my brother's son.
I still recall the final words
my brother said to Tommy:
"Son, my life is over, but yours is just begun.
Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done.
Walk away from trouble if you can.
Now it won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you're old enough to understand:
Son, you don't have to fight to be a man."

There's someone for ev'ryone and Tommy's love was Becky.
In her arms he didn't have to prove he was a man.
One day while he was workin' the Gatlin boys came callin'.
They took turns at Becky.... There was three of them!

Tommy opened up the door and saw his Becky cryin'.
The torn dress, the shattered look was more than he could stand.
He reached above the fireplace and took down his daddy's picture.
As his tears fell on his daddy's face, he heard these words again:

"Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done.Walk away
from trouble if you can.
Now it won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you're old enough to understand:Son, you don't have to fight to be a man."

The Gatlin boys just laughed at him when he walked into the barroom.
One of them got up and met him halfway 'cross the floor.
When Tommy turned around they said, "Hey look! ol' yellow's leavin'."
But you coulda heard a pin drop when Tommy stopped and blocked the door.

Twenty years of crawlin' was bottled up inside him.

He wasn't holdin' nothin' back; he let 'em have it all.
When Tommy left the barroom not a Gatlin boy was standin'.
He said, "This one's for Becky," as he watched the last one fall.
And I heard him say,
"I promised you, Dad, not to do the things you done.
I walk away from trouble when I can.
Now please don't think I'm weak, I didn't turn the other cheek,
and Papa, I sure hope you understand:
Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man."

Ev'ryone
considered him the coward of the county.

實在太好聽了, 實在很想全曲貼上來.  30 秒聽個屁.

不行, 要尊重版權. 你們自己想辦法.


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Posted by 小草 at February 24,2006 22:26
看你介紹這些 Kenny Rogers 的老歌, 好像又回到懵懂的學生時代, 以上我最喜歡 Coward of the County , 即使故事是捏造/煽情的, 聽歌的人忍不住會想像自己就是那個忍辱負重的 Tommy. (我很同意 Tommy 最後對他老爸所說的那些話.)
這首歌和讓我想起 Kenny Rogers 的另一首有點雷同的 "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" , 說的是一個打越戰而殘廢的退伍軍人, 後來被老婆 Ruby 戴綠帽子的故事... (可憐!)
這裏有歌詞: http://www.lyricsvault.net/songs/2066.html
Posted by Alexa at February 25,2006 00:34
Willie Nelson 嗎 ? 他不但留落腮鬍, 還留辮子.很酷.




Posted by 大羅 at February 25,2006 16:02