今日の「聴き比べ」は『天使の兵隊(One Tin Soldier)』です。
この曲は１９６９年カナダのグループ、オリジナル・キャスト(The Original Caste)がレコーディングしてアメリカやカナダでヒットしました。その後、オリジナル・キャストが日本でも人気になるとこの曲も知られるようになりました。当時の世情を表した反戦歌になっています。
その後１９７１年には映画『明日の壁をぶち破れ(Billy Jack)』でこの曲が使われました。歌ったのはコーヴェン(Coven)です。これまたヒットしました。
One Tin Soldier
By Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
Listen children to a story
That was written long ago
About a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley folk below
On the mountain was a treasure
Buried deep beneath a stone
And the valley people swore
They'd have it for their very own
Go ahead and hate your neighbour
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven
Justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after
One tin soldier rides away
So the people of the valley
Sent a message up the hill
Asking for the buried treasure
Tons of gold for which they'd kill
Came an answer from the kingdom
"With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain
All the riches buried there"
Now the valley cried with anger
"Mount your horses, draw your sword"
And they killed the mountain people
So they won their just reward
Now they stood beside the treasure
On the mountain darkend red
Turned the stone and looked beneath it
"Peace on earth" was all it said
Go ahead and hate your neighbour
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after
One tin soldier rides away
Go ahead and hate your neighbour
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after
One tin soldier rides away
オリジナル・キャストです。
コーヴェンです。ヴォーカルはジン・ドーソンです。
「この世の果てまで(The End of the World)」で有名なスキータ・デイヴィス(Skeeter Davis)も歌いました。
それでは今日はこの辺で。
