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歌名：I am Going to the West

作词、作曲、演唱：Connie Dover

专辑：The Border of Heaven

副歌部分改编自美国Alabama的民歌。是一首

叙述拓荒先民怀着对西部的梦想到美国西部

垦荒的歌曲。

《I am Going to the West》

In this fair land' I'll stay no more

Here labor is in vain

I'll seek the mountains far away

And leave the fertile plain

Where waves of grass in oceans roll

Into infinity

I stand ready on the shore

To cross the inland sea

I am going to the West

Chorus

You say you will not go with me

You turn your eyes away

You say you will not follow me

No matter what I say

I am going to the West

I am going to the West

Chorus

I will journey to the place

That was shaped by heaven hand

And I will build for me a bower

Where angels?footprints mark the land

Where castle rocks in towers high

Kneel to valleys wild and green

All my thoughts are turned to you

My waking hope' my sleeping dream

I am going to the West

You say you will not go with me

You turn your eyes away

You say you will not follow me

No matter what I say

I am going to the West

I am going to the West

And when sun gives way to moon

And silver starlight fills the sky

In the arms of these last hills

Is where I bound to lie

Wind' my blanket' earth' my bed

My canopy' a tree

Willows by the river edge

Will whisper me to sleep

I am going to the West

You say you will not go with me

You turn your eyes away

You say you will not follow me

No matter what I say

I am going to the West

I am going to the West

Connie Dover是美国本土密苏里州人，在美

国本土的一个爱尔兰乐队scartaglen中出名，

以往我们接触的celtic美声大多都是来自欧

洲大陆，这个美国漂亮歌手饱含celtic风的

歌声却使我不得不赞叹celtic音乐的魅力和

影响是多么的巨大。仔细听她的音乐中，民

谣和美声的成分居多。用了大量celtic特有

的乐器，却也不忘加上点标志美国民谣的吉

他声。还有一点值得一提，这个金发美女不

仅人美歌靓，自己也是个键盘手和作曲家。

Connie Dover 的声音很平稳，就像砂漏里的

砂往下流过一样，淡淡的，看不出什么滋味，

口感却又很深远，不过，就像 CD 听完可以

重来，沙漏滴完可以再翻转过来，时间却还

是一样离开，淡滋味中，有一种无力挽回的

哀伤。