Bună dimineaţa din nou! Azi vă fac o nouă recomandare de pe meleaguri străineze, o piesă celebră din repertoriul lui Paul Simon şi Art Garfunkel.

“The Boxer” a fost compusă de Paul Simon în anul 1968, a apărut mai întâi pe un single al grupului, urmând ca în 1970 să fie inclusă pe albumul “Bridge Over Troubled Water”.

De-a lungul timpului, acest cântec a fost preluat şi cântat de multe nume importante ale scenei muzicale. Printre acestia se numără artişti precum Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, The Samples sau Tommy Fleming.

Mulţi dintre voi probabil cunosc şi varianta în limba română a piesei interpretată de cei de la Pasărea Colibri (traducerea versurilor aparţinându-i lui Florian Pittiş).

Audiţie plăcută şi o duminică frumoasă!

I am just a poor boy
Though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

When I left my home and my family
I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station running scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know

Lie la lie …

Asking only workman’s wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers,
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there

Lie la lie …

Then I’m laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me
Bleeding me, going home

In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of ev’ry glove that layed him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
“I am leaving, I am leaving”
But the fighter still remains.

Lie la lie …