My Musical Biography
Here is my annotated playlist – with timed links to the core lyrics on Youtube4
At Age 11
Born Under a Wandering Star – Lee Marvin
with its “Hell is in hello” and “Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry”
At Age 17
Bobby McGee – Janis Jopplin
Janis Joplin’s desperate loss: “I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday”
And “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”.
At Age 17
You ain’t seen nothing yet – Bachman Turner Overdrive
with its:
“… I think that any loving’s good loving
So I took what I could get, mmm, ooh-ooh
She looked at me with big brown eyes
And said … You ain’t seen nothing yet…
B-b-b-baby, you just ain’t seen n-n-n-nothing yet
There’s a light shining in Frankenstein’s kitchen
Déjà vu – Modern Talking
Judas Song – Jesus Christ Superstar
Clinging on quiet desperation – Pink Floyd
שיר המשורר: ארז פואטיקה במיטבה
קפה טורקי
אריק איינשטיין
מילים: יענקל’ה רוטבליט
לחן: מיקי גבריאלוב
קפה תורכי– אריק איינשטיין
חשב על בלדה לארץ אבות,
נפשו בו רעדה, נזכר בחובות.
מדוע לא בא לו, חשב שיבכה,
כי מה זה היה לו, העם מחכה…
אז תשתה קפה טורקי ותתעורר,
אתה המשורר.
אז תשתה קפה טורקי, זה עולמי
אם לא תשיר, אז מי ישיר, אז מי?
All the lonely people – darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there
At 13
Gilgarra Mountain –
Peter, Paul and Mary
A song of love and betrayal:
I put it in me pocket to take home to darlin’ Jenny
She sighed and swore she loved me
And never would deceive me/
But the devil take the women for they always lie so easy
With its refrain: “the devil take the women for they always…
At Age 15
Day is Done
Peter, Paul and Mary
At the age of 15 I was deeply moved by this song:
Do you ask why I’m sighing, my son?
You shall inherit what mankind has done
In a world filled with sorrow and woe
If you ask me why this is so, I really don’t know
And if you take my hand my son
All will be well when the day is done
And if you take my hand my son
All will be well when the day is done
Day is done, day is done, day is done, day is done
At Age 15
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Peter Paul and Mary
(Originally by Bob Dylan)
Look out your window and I’ll be gone
You’re the reason I’m a-traveling on
But don’t think twice, it’s all right
I am the very model of a biblical Philologist