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Judy Collins는 맹인으로 지방의 라디오 방송의 디스크 자키였던 아버지의 가르침으로 불과 열 세 살의 나이에 피아노 독주회를 열 정도의 음악천재였다고 하는데... 그녀의 'My father'란 노래는 말 없는 가운데 가족에의 책임을 다하는 아버지의 이미지를 잔잔하게 이야기하고 있는데, 가사를 음미해 보면 오늘을 사는 분은 어머니요, 내일을 사는 분은 아버지라는 생각이 들게 된다. 하루하루가 위태로운 탄광 광부인 아버지가 딸들에게, 우린 훗날 파리의 세느강에서 배를 타고 놀 거라면서 희망을 얘기하는 장면이 바로 그렇다고 보는데... My father written and sung by Judy Collins My father always promised us that we would live in France We'd go boating on the Seine and I would learn to dance We lived in Ohio then he worked in the mines On his dreams like boats, we knew we would sail in time All my sisters soon were gone to Denver and Cheyenne Marrying their grownup dreams the lilacs and the man I stayed behind the youngest still only danced alone The colors of my father's dreams faded without a sound And I live in Paris now my children dance and dream Hearing the ways of a miner's life in words they've never seen I sail my memories of home like boats across the Seine And watch the Paris sun as it sets in my father's eyes again My father always promised us that we would live in France We'd go boating on the Seine and I would learn to dance I sail my memories of home like boats across the Seine And watch the Paris sun as it sets in my father's eyes again.
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