「礦工的女兒」病了

「礦工的女兒」Loretta Lynn 10月24日自醫院出院，76歲的她因為初發性肺炎於上週末住院，原本上週末開始在肯塔基州Ashland和北卡羅萊納州Durham所舉行的二場演唱會也不得不重行安排。


Loretta Lynn 1935年出生於肯塔基州的Butcher Holler，能唱歌、作曲、彈吉它，1960年至2000年有78首歌進過鄉村歌曲排行榜，其中有16首歌獲得冠軍，另一位以演唱Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.出名的歌星Crystal Gayle是她妹妹，Loretta Lynn 另二位妹妹Jay Lee Webb 與Peggy Sue也都是知名鄉村歌手。

1980年的電影Coal Miner’s Daughter「礦工的女兒」即改編自Loretta Lynn的自傳，由Sissy Spacek西西史派克與Tommy Lee Jones湯米李瓊斯主演的此片，有Loretta Lynn許多好聽的歌穿插其中，但由Sissy Spacek與另一位參加演出的女星Beverly D’Angelo（演已故歌后Patsy Cline）翻唱，傳神的演出也替西西史派克拿下奧斯卡金像獎影后。

Loretta Lynn 所唱的Coal Miner’s Daughter是1970年鄉村歌曲排行榜冠軍歌曲，在熱門歌曲排行榜只獲得83名，但被收進葛萊美獎名人堂。



Coal Miner's Daughter



Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter,

In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler,

We were poor, but we had love,

That's the one thing my daddy made sure of,

He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar.



My daddy worked all night in the Van Lear Coal Mines,

All day long in a field a-hoein' corn,

Mommy rocked the babies at night,

and read The Bible by the coal-oil light,

And everything would start all over come break of mornin'.



Daddy loved and raised 8 kids on a miner's pay,

Mommy scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day,

Why, I seen her fingers bleed, to complain, there was no need,

She'd smile in mommy's understanding way.



In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear,

But in the wintertime, we'd all get a brand new pair,

From a mail-order catalog, money made from sellin' a hog,

Daddy always managed to get the money somewhere.



Yeah, I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter,

I remember well the well where I drew water,

The work we done was hard, at night we'd sleep 'cause we were tired,

I never thought of ever leavin' Butcher Holler.



Well, a lot of things have changed since way back then,

And it's so good to be back home again,

Not much left but the floor, nothin' lives here anymore,

'Cept the memories of a coal miner's daughter.