설명하기 어려운 목소리 - Steve Winwood

한참을 쉬었습니다. 일을 안 하고 돈도 안 벌었다는 거죠. 반대는 많이 했습니다. 놀면서 돈 쓰는 거요.

제가 저 아래 써 놓기도 했는데요. "Paint it Rock"이라는 rock의 역사에 대해 쓴 만화책을 사서 열심히 보면서 전설적인 곡들을 찾아서 들으면서 많은 시간을 보냈습니다. 대부분의 곡들은 들어보긴 했는데 제가 제목을 모르는 노래들이더군요. 지금 제가 소개하고 하는 곡도 앞뒤의 배경이 없으면 그냥 괜히 재미 없는 노래일 가능성이 높습니다. 이 노래가 나오던 시기에는 다들 좀 심각하고 서사시적인 곡을 쓰고 부르고 했던 모양입니다. 'John Barelycorn은 죽어야한다'는 뭔 소린지 알기 어려운 노래를 불렀네요. 이 노래는 그냥 그럴지도 모르고요 Traffic이라는 group의 대표주자였던 Steve Winwood의 노래들은 찾아보시면 좋은 노래가 좀 있을 겁니다.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZXdV4R2Ox4

There were three men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn must die
They've ploughed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in
Threw clods upon his head
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn was dead
They've let him lie for a very long time, 'til the rains from heaven did fall
And little Sir John sprung up his head and so amazed them all
They've let him stand 'til Midsummer's Day 'til he looked both pale and wan
And little Sir John's grown a long long beard and so become a man
They've hired men with their scythes so sharp to cut him off at the knee
They've rolled him and tied him by the waist serving him most barbarously
They've hired men with their sharp pitchforks who've pricked him to the heart
And the loader he has served him worse than that
For he's bound him to the cart
They've wheeled him around and around a field 'til they came unto a barn

And there they made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn
They've hired men with their crabtree sticks to cut him skin from bone
And the miller he has served him worse than that
For he's ground him between two stones

And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl and his brandy in the glass
And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl proved the strongest man at last
The huntsman he can't hunt the fox nor so loudly to blow his horn
And the tinker he can't mend kettle or pots without a little barleycorn

제가 어렸을 때 필요에 의해서 영시를 배우고 외우고 해서 그나마 저한테는 그나마 조금 나을 지도 모르겠습니다.