Graveyard dream blues/Bessie Smith翻訳

Ida Cox, Lovie Austin - Graveyard Dream Blues (1923)


Bessie Smith
Graveyard dream blues Lyrics
Album: 1923

Blues on my mind, blues all around my head
Blues on my mind, and blues all around my head
I dreamed last night that the man that I love was dead
I went to the graveyard, fell down on my knees
I went to the graveyard, fell down on my knees
And I asked the gravedigger to give me back my real good man please
The gravedigger look me in the eye
The gravedigger look me in the eye
Said "I'm sorry lady but your man has said his last goodbye"
I wrung my hands and I wanted to scream
I wrung my hands and I wanted to scream
But when I woke up I found it was only a dream
心のブルース、私が思い巡らすブルース
心のブルース、私が思い巡らすブルース
昨夜、私が大切に思う人が死んでいる夢を見た
私は墓地に行き、跪（ひざまず）いて平服した
私は墓地に行き、跪（ひざまず）いて平服した
と同時に、本当にいい人を私に返してくれませんか？と墓堀人に頼んだ
墓堀人は、その目を私に向ける
墓堀人は、その目を私に向ける
そして、気の毒ではありますが、貴方の恋人は、臨終の暇乞（いとまご）いをなさいましたと言った
私は私の手を強く握った、そして悲鳴を上げた
私は私の手を強く握った、そして悲鳴を上げた
ところが、目覚めると、それは只の夢だった

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South(最南部地方）" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants（聖歌, and rhymed （作詞された）simple narrative （叙述的な）ballads.

The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common.
The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound.
The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments.
Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century.
Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles.
World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners.
In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved.
The term "the blues" refers to the "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman's one-act farce Blue Devils (1798).
Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition.
In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed（憂鬱な） mood.

15:07 2012/11/20火曜日