JOHN, Eltonの最近のブログ記事

TITLE: Country Comfort　（カントリー・コンフォート）
AUTHOR: Elton John / Bernie Taupin　（エルトン・ジョン／バーニー・トーピン）
PERFORMER: Elton John　（エルトン・ジョン）

何の目的もなく車を走らせていると、面白そうな狭い道に入ることがあります。ふと気づくとのどかな田園風景、今回のカントリー・コンフォート(Country Comfort)はそんな風景を思い起こさせてくれるのにぴったりの曲です。

作詞・作曲はそれぞれバーニー・トーピン(Bernie Taupin)とエルトン・ジョン(Elton John)の名コンビで、1970年に発売された『タンブルウィード・コネクション(Tumbleweed Connection)』に収録されています。

Soon the pines will be falling everywhere
Village children fight each other for a share
And the 6:09 goes roaring past the creek
Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week

I saw grandma yesterday down at the store
Well she's really going fine for eighty four
Well she asked me if some time I'd fix her barn
Poor old girl she needs a hand to run the farm

And it's good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown
Country comfort's in a truck that's going home

Down at the well they've got a new machine
The foreman says it cuts man-power by fifteen
Yeah but that ain't natural well so old Clay would say
You see he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day

And it's good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown
Country comfort's in a truck that's going back home

And it's good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown
Country comfort's in a truck that's going back home

Now the old fat goose is flying 'cross the sticks
The hedgehog's done in clay between the bricks
And the rocking chair's a-creaking on the porch
Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch

And it's good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown
Country comfort's in a truck that's going home
Country comfort's in a truck that's going back home
Yes it is, country comfort's in a truck that's going back home