NHKFM 「夜のプレイリスト」
NHKFM 毎週火曜～土曜 午前0時～0時50分（毎週月曜～金曜深夜）
週替わりで様々なジャンルの著名人が自分のイチ押しアルバムを紹介する番組。
先週に引き続き、語学以外の記事を書きたくなりました。
2024年1月31日の放送は小説家の石田衣良さんが紹介するブルース・スプリングスティーンのアルバム「LIVE/1975-85」でした。(2月7日午前0：50まで聞き逃し配信で聴くことができます。）
このライブアルバムは5枚組(レコードで）なので、放送はその中から選曲されてますね。
ブルース・スプリングスティーンの曲で私が一番好きなのが「ザ・リバー」なんです。放送でも選ばれてますが、残念なことにこの曲の前の「語り」の部分が省かれてるんですよ
(石田さんわかってねぇな、ここは省けないでしょ！小説家のあなたがこの部分を省いてしまうとは...泣けてきます。）
失礼、取り乱しましたm(__)m
というわけで、その「語り」部分のある動画をYouTubeで探しました。動画とは言えないかもしれないけど見つけましたよ。ディクテーションを試みましたが、なかなか難しい。
そこで、引っ越しのたびに処分してきたレコードの中でも残しておいたこのアルバムを、奥にしまっていたダンボール箱から引っぱり出しました。
おお
ちゃんとこの「語り」の部分が載っているじゃありませんか
どうか、YouTubeの音声と一緒にご鑑賞ください。
※下記の英語は、レコードについていたnoteでは明らかに省いているところや、そうは聞こえない部分もあるので、そのまま写したものではありません。逆に、自分には聞き取れなかった箇所はnoteを採用しました。いずれにしましても、お気付きの点がありましたらご指摘ください。大歓迎です！
＜語り＞
How're you doing out there tonight?
That's good...that's good.
This is a...when I was growing up,
me and my dad used to go at it all the time.
Over almost anything.
But uh, I used to have really long hair,
way down past my shoulders.
I was 17 or 18.
Oh man, he used to hate it.
And we got to where we fight so much
that I spend a lot of time out of the house.
And in the summer time, it wasn't so bad.
'cause it was warm and your friends were out.
But in the winter I remember standing downtown, I would get so cold.
And when the wind was blowing, I had this phone booth that I used to stand in.
And I used to call my girl, like for hours at a time...
just talking to her all night long.
And finally I get my nerve up to go home.
And I'd stand there in the driveway and he'd be waiting for me in the kitchen.
And I tucked my hair down into my collar and I'd walk in.
And he'd call me back to sit down with him.
And the first thing he'd always asked me was
what did I think I was doing with myself?
And the worst part of that was that
I could never explain it to him.
I remember I got in a motorcycle accident once.
And I was laid up in bed and he had a barber come in and cut my hair.
And man, I can remember telling him that I hated him
and that I would never, ever forget it.
And he used to tell me, man, "I can't wait till the Army gets you.
When the Army gets you, they're gonna make a man ****(out of you).
Cut all that hair off. And I'll make a man ****(out of you)."
And this was in I guess 68 when there were a lot of guys from the neighborhood going to Vietnam.
I remember the drummer in my first band coming over my house with his Marine uniform on.
Saying that he was going and that he didn't know where it was.
And a lot of guys went.
A lot of guys didn't come back.
And like that came back weren't the same anymore.
I remember the day I got my draft notice.
I hid it from my folks.
And three days before my physical, me and my friends went out
and we stayed up all night.
We got on the bus to go that morning, man.
We were all so scared.
And I went and I failed.
I came home...nothing to applaud about...
But I remember coming home after I've been gone for three days.
And walking in the kitchen...and my mother and father were sitting there,
And my dad said, "Where you been?
I said, "I went to take my physical."
He says, "What happened?"
I said, "They didn't take me."
And he said, "That's good."
歌詞についてはこちらが参考になるかと思います。
私は最後のこの部分が好きなんですよね。
But I remember us riding in my brother’s car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I’d lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she’d take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true
Or is it something worse
That sends me down to the river
though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
【5枚組ライブレコード！聞く手段はなくなっても私の宝物】
このサイズ感！サブスク世代、いやCD世代でもわかんねぇだろうな...
なので、
左がCDですよ。
え？そのサイズ、不適切にもほどがある？
思い入れはこの大きさでも収まりきらないのですよ。