『星降る夜に～♪（Starry, starry night）』といって始まるこのロマンチックな曲。

練習場でよくかかって、いい曲だなと思っていました。

曲名が『ビンセント』とあったので、誰のことだろうと調べてみたら、なんとつい先日『すけべ人間』とかブログで書いたオランダ出身の画家、ビンセント・ヴァン・ゴッホにささげられた曲だったんです。

ゴッホの伝記を読んだドン・マクリーンが、1971年に書いた曲だそうです。

歌い始めの『星降る夜に～♪（Starry, starry night）』という歌詞は、ゴッホの『星月夜』という絵に由来するとのこと。



何度もこの曲でルンバ踊ってましたけど、まさかゴッホの歌だったとはね...。

気にしてませんでしたけど確かにスケッチとかペイントとか歌ってました。

こちらからどうぞ。

Vincent 　-　Don McLean

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
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

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
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 field of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

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

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 have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless head on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in the ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

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

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