Ni har hört den förut: Children of a Wandering Star (Stjärnljusbarn). Men nu finns en sprillans ny version med JörgenTLarsson på Spotify:
Hear sirens’ yearning calls ’n drawn
To far off foreign shore
Captain moaning dusk till dawn
Fastened far a-fore
Deafened mariners a-stumbling
Dutiful and shaken
Reeling, running, voices mumbling
Gnomes and ghosts – awaken
Chorus
Virgin voices from afar
Bounteous riddle half ajar
Children of a wandering star
Towering swells to foaming tears
’Gainst coral reefs a-breaking
Message full of eerie fears
Of magic in the making
Full fathom five thy father lies
Mermaids murmuring low
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Waning for weariness and woe
Chorus
Far aways in southern seas
In the kingdom of Palau
Stories, whispers, soothing breeze
Palm leaves’ softly bow
Cast ashore on golden sands
Sun struck, beaten ’n barred
Seafaring men lost from lands
Children of a wandering star
Chorus
Coda
Follow that twinkling little star
Carry some moonbeams home in a jar
All you’ll ever be, all you are
Nothing but a child of a wandering star
Nothing but a child of a wandering star
Minns inte alls hur den här låten kom till. Vet bara att den funnits länge, och att den är full av mystik. Uppfattar ni förresten allusionerna till Homeros Odysséen, Shakespeares Stormen, Big Dee Irvins Would you like to swing on a star, Lee Marvin i filmen Paint Your Wagon? Inte? Ja, de finns där i alla fall; googla lite så får ni se.
The bounteous riddle is half ajar…
Den finns ju på svenska också, som Stjärnljusbarn Om det hjälper…
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