唐麥克林的Vincent和凡高的Starry Night

這是典型的名歌配名畫，堪稱雙絕。Don McLean讀了一本關於Van Gogh生平的書後，於1971年寫下這首作品。三十多年來，很多人是通過Don McLean的一曲催人淚下的Vincent才了解並喜歡上Van Gogh的Starry Night的。可以說，Don McLean的Vincent是對Van Gogh的絕好宣傳，提升了Starry Night的知名度。

Starry Night現藏於紐約的Museum of Modern Art，前兩年MoMA翻建，這幅畫一直在世界各地巡展，去年9月才從德國調回。去年11月MoMA新館落成開館，麵對牆上掛著的Starry Night，耳邊回響起Don McLean的Vincent，眼眶濕乎乎的。如果你有機會去紐約，一定要到53街的MoMA看看。與Starry Night並排掛在一起的還有Van Gogh的另一幅名畫Olive Trees。


Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890.
The Starry Night, Oil on canvas, 72x92cm.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest.

Don McLean, Vincent(Starry Starry Night), 4:00.

這是Don McLean原唱的版本（歌詞附後）。Don McLean家頁上還有好幾個演唱會現場錄音的版本：

http://www.don-mclean.com/downloads/index.asp

我最喜歡1975年在倫敦海德公園麵對八萬聽眾的露天演唱的那個版本。這個版本前麵是另一首歌，就像一段前奏。大家可能不熟悉這首歌，但一定熟悉裏麵化用的兩句《綠袖子》旋律。這是一首由Kurt Weill作曲Maxwell Anderson作詞的老歌LOST IN THE STARS（歌詞附後）。

Vincent

By Don McLean

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

{Refrain}
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

{Refrain}

For they could not love you
But still, your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could've told you, Vincent
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you

Starry, Starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will


LOST IN THE STARS

By Maxwell Anderson & Kurt Weill

Before Lord God made the sea and the land,
He held all the stars in the palm of his hand.
And they ran through his fingers like grains of sand,
And one little star fell alone.
Then the Lord God hunted through the wide night air
For the little dark star on the wind down there.
And he stated and promised he'd take special care
So it wouldn't get lost again.
Now a man don't mind if the stars grow dim
And the clouds blow over and darken him,
So long as the Lord God's watching over them,
Keeping track of how it all goes on.
But I've been walking all the night and the day,
Till my eyes get weary and my head turns gray.
And sometimes it seems maybe God's gone away,
And we're lost out here in the stars.
Little stars, big stars, blowing through the night,
And we're lost out here in the stars.
Little stars, big stars, blowing through the night,
And we're lost out here in the stars.

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• 好貼！好歌！ -綠色和平原子彈- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/27/2005 postreply 10:58:43

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• 非常好，美畫美歌，有機會一定去看！多謝！ -秋風落葉- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/27/2005 postreply 15:07:04