Johnny Paycheck, 'The Old Violin'
𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿
ジョニーは mirror を〈ミア〉と発音してる
もしや、ボブ・ディランはこの発音を、以来、マネてるんじゃ
Bob Dylan の詩の音韻の研究家の間では mirror が〈ミア〉と発音されることから来る押韻の問題は広く（？）知られてる
もともとの発音の傾向かと思ってたが、まさか、
ジョニー〈給料〉
氏のこの歌から来てた
…… なんてことはないな、いや、あるか、も
新著 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' の
31章をオーディオブックで聞いていて
名前にまつわるおもしろい話にフンフンと
うなづいていたが
はたして
ジョニー〈給料〉
なんて名がかっこいいのか
それを確かめるべく音源を聞いてみたらこれだった
確かに本に書いてある通りの歌だった
𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻
I can't recall, one time in my life
I've felt as lonely as I do tonight
I feel like I could lay down, and get up no more
It's the damnedest feelin', I never felt it before
Tonight I feel like an old violin
Soon to be put away and never played again
Don't ask me why I feel like this, hell, I can't say
I only wish this feelin' would just go away
I guess it's 'cause the truth
Is the hardest thing I ever faced
'Cause you can't change the truth
In the slightest way, I tried
So I asked myself
I said, "John, where'd you go from here?"
And then like a fool
I turned around and I 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿
And there I saw, an old violin
Soon to be put away and never played again
So one more time, just to be sure
I said, "John, where in the hell do you go from here?"
You know that when a nickel's worth of difference
And I looked in the mirror, that's when I knew
That there I was seein', an old violin
Soon to be put away, and never played again
And just like that, it hit me
That old violin and I were just alike
We'd give our all to music
And soon, we'll give our life