[轻音乐创作背景]
《Sutter's Mill》,来自Dan Fogelberg的High Country Snows。 发行于:1985。
奥斯卡电影《萨特的磨坊》经典配乐,这首歌是丹弗格伯特顿的一首乡村名谣,略显苍凉的声音唱出了John西部寻宝的一生。到他向他的Maker,即上帝报到的时候,一分钱也不是他的了。
(when old john sutter went to meet his maker,he'd not one penny to his name.)生不带来,死不带去,就这样在世上走了一轮。
天然的西部乡村音乐风格,口琴、班卓、吉他、Dobro、Fiddle的伴奏,再配上Dan Fogelberg那草原落日般的,略显苍凉的嗓音与稍快的鼓点给人的感觉正如人生步履匆匆,过段引插的口琴,又似隐隐吹奏着人生的无奈...
"也许有一天我会在洛基山脉下 捋起毛衣袖子 穿着马丁靴 乐此不疲地搬着木板 建造属于自己的小屋。打开窗户 左边是山 右边是你。"
[轻音乐感悟随笔]
在纽约的街上听到一个流浪歌手唱着这首歌,年纪并不大,却唱出了老成的味道,我驻足良久听他唱完,他笑着说了一段话,大意是我带着梦想来到这个梦幻的都市,却发现自己真的只是活在梦里。
Oh...
(chorus)
Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the lord for their deliverance
And some would curse john sutter's mill.
And some would curse john sutter's mill
Some men's thirsts are never filled.
end
Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the lord for their deliverance
And some would curse john sutter's mill.
(music)
Well, some pushed on to california
And others stopped to take their rest.
And by the spring of eighteen-sixty
They had opened up the west.
And then the railroad came behind them
And the land was plowed and tamed,
When old john sutter went to meet his maker,
He'd not one penny to his name.
Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the lord for their deliverance
And some would curse john sutter's mill.
Well, they came from new york city,
And they came from alabam'
With their dreams of finding fortunes
In this wild unsettled land.
Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows
As they tried to cross the plains.
And some were lost in the rocky mountains
With their hands froze to the reins.
Oh...
(chorus)
And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd
Left that stone in the river bed.
For they came like herds of locusts
Every woman, child and man
In their lumbering conestogas
They left their tracks upon the land.
(chorus)
In the spring of forty-seven,
So the story, it is told,
Old john sutter went to the mill site
Found a piece of shining gold.
Well, he took it to the city
Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
百听不厌, 就像老朋友的故事。
这首歌曲是真好听,非常有韵味
苍凉的嗓音,苍凉的景色。 苍凉的结局,一切都苍凉。
Oh...
(chorus)
Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the lord for their deliverance
And some would curse john sutter's mill.
And some would curse john sutter's mill
Some men's thirsts are never filled.
end
Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the lord for their deliverance
And some would curse john sutter's mill.
(music)
Well, some pushed on to california
And others stopped to take their rest.
And by the spring of eighteen-sixty
They had opened up the west.
And then the railroad came behind them
And the land was plowed and tamed,
When old john sutter went to meet his maker,
He'd not one penny to his name.
Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the lord for their deliverance
And some would curse john sutter's mill.
Well, they came from new york city,
And they came from alabam'
With their dreams of finding fortunes
In this wild unsettled land.
Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows
As they tried to cross the plains.
And some were lost in the rocky mountains
With their hands froze to the reins.
Oh...
(chorus)
And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd
Left that stone in the river bed.
For they came like herds of locusts
Every woman, child and man
In their lumbering conestogas
They left their tracks upon the land.
(chorus)
In the spring of forty-seven,
So the story, it is told,
Old john sutter went to the mill site
Found a piece of shining gold.
Well, he took it to the city
Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
百听不厌, 就像老朋友的故事。
这首歌曲是真好听,非常有韵味
苍凉的嗓音,苍凉的景色。 苍凉的结局,一切都苍凉。