今日の「聴き比べ」はザ・バンド(The Band)の『オールド・ディキシー・ダウン(The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down)』です。
久しぶりにザ・バンドの登場です。
この曲は１９６９年のセカンド・アルバム『The Band』に収録された曲です。
彼らのライヴの定番曲でもあり『Rock Of Ages』や『The Last Waltz』でも披露しています。
ボブ・ディランのバックバンドとして有名になりましたが、その後はアメリカの三大バンドと言われるまでになりました。
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
By Robbie Robertson
Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "La, la, la"
Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E.Lee"
Now I don't mind choppin' wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "La, la, la"
Like my father before me, I will work the land
And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
He was just eighteen, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "La, la, la"
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "La, la, la"
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ジョーン・バエズ(Joan Baez)が１９７１年のアルバム『Blessed Are...』でカバーしました。カントリータッチで。
ジョニー・キャッシュ(Johny Cash)は１９７５年に『John R. Cash』でカバーしました。
オールマン・ブラザーズ(The Allman Brothers Band)です。
今までに登場したバンドのブログ。この他にもたくさんあったと思いますが忘れてしまいました。そして昨年はロビー・ロバートソンが逝きました。
それでは今日はこの辺で。
