珍曲紹介: Mark Murphy - Blood Count

Don't cry, sweet pea Any night in your life is the night for praying Like a blackbird in the night Too far-gone for taking flight Nothing wrong but nothing right Sweet dreams then are out of way Any night in your life is the night for dreaming When your head begins to spin And the sounds get certainly dim You can hear these voices within And they say "Why!" "Why me?" No answer "I see..." Don't cry, sweet pea No time and space to pray for grace Any night in your life Any night remember Once you made out how this isn't real Like those rings you started to feel With the wind high over the field You would soar with your soul What was right? What's going wrong? So you said it in this song On your final idea from Billy Strayhorn "Maybe you'll see in my life Listen, listen, listen Won't you listen Listen, listen, listen Oh, listen Come and meet me in a dream" 解說："Blood Count" (血球計數)是Duke Ellington的親密音樂戰友Billy Strayhorn的遺稿。1967年，他罹患食道癌並死去，因此這曲目最後才更名為"Blood Count"。當然是非常哀愁的一首曲子，但是我認為真的由男歌手Mark Murphy演唱了由M.E. Stillman配詞的版本後，才挖掘出整曲的底蘊，也成為我最愛的jazz vocal曲之一。在網路上檢索不到這歌詞，我便自己謄錄了下。隨時歡迎您指正。