할머니의 따뜻한 모습이 기억나시나요? - Mary by Patty Griffin

요즘은 자식도 잘 낳지 않고 하니 할머니 할아버지를 만나거나 볼 기회는 더욱 적겠죠. 제 자신은 할머니라는 말을 들으면 항상 가슴이 따뜻해 짐을 느낍니다. 제 경우는 아주 직접 관련된 할머니는 안 계셨지만 할머니라고 부를 만한 분들이 주변에 계셔서 맛있는 반찬을 해주고 토닥거리고 해 줄 분을 가끔씩 볼 수 있었습니다. 다행이죠, 제가 그런 기억을 가지고 있다는 것이. 저도 그런 기억을 누군가에게 가능하면 여러 사람에게 주고 싶거든요.

Patty Griffin이 제 dream guitar 중의 하나인 Gibson acoustic을 들고 미국에서 구성지게 노래부르는데 있어서 둘째 가라면 서러워할 (제가 써 놓고도 한심하네요) Dixie Chicks의 Natalie Maines하고 함께 불렀습니다. 언젠가 들었는데 본인의 할머니에 대한 기억으로 만든 노래라고 말하는 것을 들었었습니다.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOxpvKuEruk&feature=related

Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes
You're covered in rain
You're covered in babies, you're covered in slashes
You're covered in wilderness, you're covered in stains
You cast aside the sheet, you cast aside the shroud
Of another man, who served the world proud
You greet another son, you lose another one
On some sunny day and always stay, Mary

Jesus says Mother I couldn't stay another day longer
Flys right by me and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Mary she moves behind me
She leaves her fingerprints everywhere
Everytime the snow drifts, everytime the sand shifts
Even when the night lifts, she's always there

Jesus said Mother I couldn't stay another day longer
Flys right by me and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ruin
you're covered in secrets
Your'e covered in treetops, you're covered in birds
who can sing a million songs without any words
You cast aside the sheets, you cast aside the shroud
of another man, who served the world proud
You greet another son, you lose another one
on some sunny day and always stay
Mary, Mary, Mary

이 노래가 좋으시면 다음 노래도 좋을 겁니다. 미국사람들은 할머니가 파이 만드는 것을 기억하는 모양입니다. 우리 할머니들이 떡해주시는 것과 다름이 없다고 생각합니다. 좋은 일 있을 때는 항상 떡이나 파이가 있어야 하는 거겠죠.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HC7KABegj0

It's not far
I can walk
Down the block
To TableTalk
Close my eyes
Make the pies all day

Plastic cap
on my hair
I used to mind
Now I don't care
I used to mind
Now I don't care
Cause I'm gray
(흰 머리가 많으셔서 이제 모자 안 쓰셔도 된다고 생각하시는 거겠죠)

Did I show you this picture of my nephew
Taken at his big birthday surprise
(생일에는 당연히 파이가 있어야겠죠)
At my sister's house last Sunday
This is Monday and we're making pies
I'm making pies
Making pies
Pies

Thursday nights
I go and type
Down at the church
With Father Mike
It gets me out
And he ain't hard to like
At all

Jesus stares at me
In my chair
With his big blue eyes
And his honey brown hair
And he's looking at me
Way up there
On the wall

Did I show you this picture of my sweetheart
Taken of us before the war
Of the Greek and his Italian girl
One Sunday at the shore

We tied our ribbons to the fire escape
They were taken by the birds
Who flew home to the country
As the bombs rained on the world

5am
Here I am
Walking the block
To TableTalk
You could cry or die
Or just make pies all day
I'm making pies
Making pies
Making pies
Making pies