Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
I lived in a place called Okfuskee
and I had a little girl in a holler tree
I said, little girl, it's plain to see,
ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me
She said it's hard for me to see
how one little boy got so ugly
Yes, my little girly, that might be,
But there ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me
[chorus:]
Way over yonder in the minor key
Way over yonder in the minor key
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
We walked down by the Buckeye Creek
to see he frog eat the goggle eye bee
To hear that west wind whistle to the east,
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me
Oh my little girly will you let me see,
where over yonder where the wind blows free
Nobody can see in our holler tree
and there ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me
[chorus]
Her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree
and laid it on to she and me
It stung lots worse than a hive of bees
but there ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me
Now I have walked a long long ways
and I still look back to my tanglewood days,
I've led lots of girlies since then to stray
saying, ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me
[chorus x 2]
ain't nobody that can sing like me
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Billy Bragg：
Wilco：
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1998年，Wilco乐队与歌手兼词曲作者Billy Bragg合作，共同演唱了由Woody Guthrie创作的一些歌曲，这就是专辑《Mermaid Avenue》。这张专辑赢得了评论界的赞誉，并且赢得了格莱美奖的提名。
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Woody Guthrie：
以下介绍摘自网络：
Woody Guthrie是美国民谣音乐历史上最有影响的人物了，一生写了无数的好歌，死后留下上千首歌词。应该说Woody的女儿找上Wilco和Billy Bragg来为其父亲遗作谱上曲子这个决定虽然不是最好的，起码也坏不到哪去。当然，很多人心中适合的人选是另一个人--Bob dylan。众所周知，Woody是Dylan的精神导师，后者早期其实就是在大量地模仿他--即使Dylan现在已差不多超越了先辈。不过据他透露说--当年在医院里Woody Guthrie曾告诉他自己有几箱没有谱好曲的歌词和诗稿放在家里，他希望Dylan拿去看看。但当他找到Woody Guthrie的家时，恰巧他的妻子不在家，12岁的儿子又不知手稿在哪。于是，一个大腕儿就此错过了和另一真正大腕儿超越时空合作的机会。不过Billy Bragg似乎干得不比Dylan差，当然里面有几首也是Wilco的主脑Jeff Tweedy干的，但普普通通罢了。一个左派，一支热衷实验的民谣乐团--怎么也会偏离原作批判性的诗人色彩，并且那时候Wilco还在探索之中（事实上他们一直都在探索与改变，仿佛民谣界里的Radiohead）。在这张《Mermaid Avenue》（美人鱼大街）之后, Wilco发表了他们的第三张专辑--《Summer Teeth》。04年的《A Ghost Is Born》封套是个鸡蛋，而05年则是碎蛋壳，是不是Wilco已经认为自己破茧成蝶？
好象忘了说说另一个主人公，象个提着音箱和吉他到处乱窜的工人--Billy Bragg。大家都说他是左派，其实左派不过就是高级点的Punk。但起码他迎合了自Woody开始传承的民谣精神，不同于大洋此岸跟他一样流浪的杨一先生（现在是某些高级讲座的常客）那样单纯地歌唱底层与民间（这是民谣-Folk的两个路子），他把矛头伸向政治-与其前辈老Bob接了头--众多英格兰上的码头罢工与反战集会便有他的身影。
似乎脑子里有关大多数美国民谣的概念已成定势：在木吉他叙事与抒情的包裹下指向政治。而民谣的后人们不管在那个地方，都是喝着美国民谣的奶水长大，虽然改头换脸，却还得依旧走在这样的路上，只不过路上的选择多了些。
第二首歌Against The Law出自《Mermaid Avenue-Vol II》：
Against The Law
It's against the law to walk, and against the law to talk
Against the law to loaf, against the law to work
Against the law to read, against the law to write
Against the law to be a black, a brown, or white
Everything's against the law
I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues
It's against the law to eat, against the law to drink
Against the law to worry, against the law to think
Against the law to marry or try to settle down
Against the law to ramble like a bum from town to town
Everything's against the law
I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues
It's against the law to come, against the law to go
Against the law to ride, against the law to roll
Against the law to hug and against the law to kiss
Against the law to shoot, against the law to miss
Everything's against the law
I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues
It's against the law to gamble, against the law to roam
Against the law to organize or try to build a home
Against the law to sing, it's against the law to dance
Against the law to tell you all the trouble on my hands
Everything in Winston-Salem is against the law
I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues
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