ฟังเพลงSomewhere out There (Album Version)

歌名：I am Going to the West

作詞、作曲、演唱：Connie Dover

專輯：The Border of Heaven

副歌部分改編自美國Alabama的民歌。是一首

敘述拓荒先民懷著對西部的夢想到美國西部

墾荒的歌曲。

《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是美國本土密蘇里州人，在美

國本土的一個愛爾蘭樂隊scartaglen中出名，

以往我們接觸的celtic美聲大多都是來自歐

洲大陸，這個美國漂亮歌手飽含celtic風的

歌聲卻使我不得不讚嘆celtic音樂的魅力和

影響是多麼的巨大。仔細聽她的音樂中，民

謠和美聲的成分居多。用了大量celtic特有

的樂器，卻也不忘加上點標誌美國民謠的吉

他聲。還有一點值得一提，這個金髮美女不

僅人美歌靚，自己也是個鍵盤手和作曲家。

Connie Dover 的聲音很平穩，就像砂漏裡的

砂往下流過一樣，淡淡的，看不出甚麼滋味，

口感卻又很深遠，不過，就像 CD 聽完可以

重來，沙漏滴完可以再翻轉過來，時間卻還

是一樣離開，淡滋味中，有一種無力挽回的

哀傷。