Autumn Leaves-Joan Baez

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Unknown [00:01.53]It's only when the high winds blow [00:02.19]That I wish my hair was long [00:02.73]Sailing through the autumn leaves [00:03.27]Singing an ancient song [00:08.40]Or falling in love in the streets at night [00:09.21]At the edge of a local square [00:10.02]It's only that I'm here tonight [00:11.67]Thinking I was there [00:12.09]There are high winds on the pier tonight [00:13.68]My soul departs from me [00:15.24]Striding like Thalia's ghost south [00:16.11]On the murky sea [00:17.16]And into midnight's tapestry she fades [00:18.51]Ragged and wild [00:18.87]Searching down her ancestry [00:19.47]In the costume of a Persian child [00:20.28]And gulf winds bring me flying fish [00:21.06]That shine in the crescent moon [00:21.75]Show me the horizon [00:22.77]Where the dawn will break anew [00:23.85]And cool me here on this lonely pier [00:25.44]Where the heron are flying low [00:26.25]Echo the songs my father knew [00:26.82]In the towns of Mexico [00:27.54]When I was young my eyes were wise [00:28.14]My father was good to me [00:29.37]Instead of having a flock of sons [00:30.12]He had two other girls and me [00:31.56]And if we had used our Spanish names [00:33.03]Here's the way they'd run [00:34.35]Thalia, Margarita and Juanita [00:37.02]I'm the middle one [00:37.38]The screen door kept the demons in [00:38.10]As we moved from town to town [00:39.99]It's hard to be a princess in the States [00:40.89]When your skin is brown [00:41.37]And mama smoothed my worried brow [00:42.39]As I leaned on the kitchen door [00:43.92]Why do you carry the weight, she said [00:45.96]Of the world and maybe more? [00:46.68]And gulf winds bring me flying fish [00:47.46]That shine in the crescent moon [00:48.06]Show me the horizon [00:48.48]Where the dawn will break anew [00:49.08]And cool me here on this lonely pier [00:52.35]Where the heron are flying low [00:53.22]Echo the songs my father knew [00:53.79]In the towns of Mexico [00:56.88]My grandfathers were ministers [01:00.06]And it came on down the line [01:00.60]My father preached in his parents [01:01.32]Church when he was ten years and nine [01:06.06]And mama dressed in parishioner's [01:06.78]Clothes and didn't believe in hell [01:07.71]Her daddy fought the DAR [01:08.52]If he'd lived I'd have known him well [01:10.68]They said go find a Sunday School [01:11.43]We must have tried them all [01:12.03]I never stole from the silver plate [01:12.96]My sisters had more gall [01:13.50]One preacher said sing out loud and clear [01:15.54]It's the only life you've got [01:16.26]And the next one said be good on earth [01:20.49]You've another life at the feet of God [01:26.91]And gulf winds bring me flying fish [01:27.69]That shine in the crescent moon [01:28.29]Show me the horizon [01:28.83]Where the dawn will break anew [01:30.03]And cool me here on this lonely pier [01:30.81]Where the heron are flying low [01:31.56]Echo the songs my father knew [01:32.19]In the towns of Mexico [01:33.81]My father turned down many a job [01:38.13]Just to give us something real [01:40.71]It's hard to be a scientist in the States [01:42.24]When you've got ideals [01:43.47]And mama kept the budget book [01:45.00]She kept the garden, too [01:45.48]Bought fish from the man on Thursday [01:46.17]Fed all of us and strangers, too [01:48.48]But time will pass and so, alas [01:49.62]Will most of what we know [01:50.10]Though tonight my memory's eye is [01:52.14]Clear as the story's being told [01:52.80]And I'll play ball with the underdog [01:53.67]And sit with the child who's wrong [01:54.33]Be still when the earth is silent [01:56.04]And sing when my strength is gone [01:57.06]And gulf winds bring me flying fish [01:57.84]That shine in the crescent moon [01:58.44]Show me the horizon [01:59.76]Where the dawn will break anew [02:00.39]And cool me here on this lonely pier [02:01.17]Where the heron are flying low [02:01.74]Echo the songs my father knew [02:02.31]In the towns of Mexico [02:02.85]Now father's going to India [02:03.60]Sometime in the fall [02:04.92]They tried to stay together [02:05.52]But you just can't do it all [02:06.54]I'll think about him if he goes [02:07.68]There's a little gray in his hair [02:11.31]Though not much because he's Mexican [02:12.21]They don't age, they just prepare [02:13.74]And if he goes to India [02:18.03]I'll miss him most of all [02:18.72]He'll see me in the mudlarks' face [02:19.41]Hear me in the beggar's call [02:19.98]And mama will stay home, I guess [02:20.64]And worry if she did wrong [02:22.11]And I'll say a prayer for both of them [02:22.98]And sing them both my song [02:23.70]And gulf winds bring me flying fish [02:24.48]That shine in the crescent moon [02:25.08]Show me the horizon [02:25.59]Where the dawn will break anew [02:26.22]And cool me here on this lonely pier [02:27.06]Where the heron are flying low [02:27.78]Echo the songs my father knew [02:28.35]In the towns of Mexico