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ニューオーリンズは、いよいよ大変なことになっているようです。



ニュースが、バトンルージュからだったので、Janis Joplin の "Me and Bobby McGee" を思い出しました。
以前、日本人留学生がハロウィンで please と freeze を聞き間違えて射殺されたのもバトンルージュだったような。

Me and Bobby McGee
words and music by Kris Kristofferson


Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train
And I's feeling near as faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained
It rode us all the way into New Orleans
I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana
I's playing soft while Bobby sang the blues
Windshield wipers slapping time, I's holding Bobby's hand in mine
We sang every song that driver knew


Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose
Nothing don't mean nothing hon' if it ain't free
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
You know, feeling good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee


From the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun
There Bobby shared the secrets of my soul
Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done
Bobby baby kept me from the cold
One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away
He is looking for that home and I hope he finds it
But I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday
To be holding Bobby's body next to mine


Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose
Nothing, that's all that Bobby left me
But if feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
Feeling good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee


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