激しい雨

夕方、激しい雨に見舞われ濡れねずみになりました。
来週はまた台風が来るかも。
台風だのゲリラ豪雨だのの気象状況の中、今年は上手い事かわしてきたんけど、ついにやられました。

A Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall
多くの方がカバーしているボブ・ディランの曲

ブライアン・フェリーはボブ・ディランの曲を多く取り上げますが、この曲こそカバー大成功例でしょう。
そもそもロキシーに魅かれたのはこのビデオ・クリップでした。
当時はカッコ良いとは思いませんでした。
異様な中年シンガーだなと思ったものです。
ピアノの前で半身になってHard！　Hard！と迫られて、キモい。
曲は本家よりもずっと良い。

今、見るとカッコ良くてたまりませんね。






ジョーン・バエズ版と詞に合わせたスライドショー
A Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall

こちらはジョン・マリスのスライドショー
Bob Dylan "A Hard Rains A Gonna-Fall" (lyric Video)

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

そして、レオン・ラッセル節全開のこちら
Leon Russell / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

レゲエのリズムで
Jimmy Cliff - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

ブライアン・フェリーの次には、やはりご本人のセルフ・カバーですね。毎回違ったバージョンで歌ってくれますが、1975年のこれで。



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Bob Dylan LP - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

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