Version française
Farewell to Baseball
Langue : anglais
Texte : extraits du discours de Lou Gehrig, réorganisés et mis en musique
« Farewell to Baseball » transforme un adieu public en méditation parlée sur la gratitude devant l’épreuve. Le contraste entre le « mauvais coup du sort » et l’homme qui se déclare le plus chanceux du monde constitue le paradoxe central du texte. Les stades, les trophées, les parents et l’épouse décrite comme un rempart composent moins un palmarès qu’une cartographie des liens qui rendent la vie précieuse. La répétition de Sure I’m lucky conduit ainsi du souvenir collectif à une résolution intime. Les nappes, les cordes et les échos préservent la sobriété de cette parole.
English Version
Farewell to Baseball
Language: English
Text: Excerpts from Lou Gehrig’s farewell address, rearranged and set to music
“Farewell to Baseball” reshapes a public goodbye into a spoken meditation on gratitude in the face of adversity. Its central paradox lies between the “bad break” Gehrig has received and his conviction that he remains the luckiest man on earth. Ballparks, trophies, parents, colleagues and a wife described as a tower of strength become not a list of achievements, but a map of the relationships that make life worth living. The repeated Sure I’m lucky turns remembrance into resolve. Ambient pads, soft strings and echo leave space for the speech’s humility.
한국어 버전
Farewell to Baseball
언어: 영어
가사: 루 게릭의 은퇴 연설 일부를 재구성해 곡을 붙인 작품
〈Farewell to Baseball〉은 대중 앞에서 건넨 작별 인사를 역경 속 감사에 관한 스포큰 워드 명상으로 바꾼다. 불운을 맞았다는 고백과 자신을 세상에서 가장 운 좋은 사람이라 부르는 선언 사이의 역설이 작품의 중심을 이룬다. 야구장과 기념품, 부모와 동료들, 굳건한 버팀목이 된 아내는 업적의 목록이 아니라 삶을 살아갈 가치가 있게 하는 관계의 지도가 된다. 반복되는 Sure I’m lucky는 회상을 다시 살아가려는 결의로 이끌며, 잔잔한 패드와 현악기, 메아리는 연설의 겸손한 울림을 지켜 준다.
Farewell to Baseball
Fans, for the past two weeks
You have been reading about the bad break I got
Yet today
I consider myself
The luckiest man on the face of the earth
Sure I’m lucky
Sure I’m lucky
Yet today
I consider myself
The luckiest man
On the face of the earth
I have been in ballparks for seventeen years
Never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans
Look at these grand men
Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career
Just to associate with them for even one day?
Who wouldn’t consider it an honor
To have known Jacob Ruppert?
The builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow?
Six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins
Nine years with that outstanding leader
Smart student of psychology
The best manager in baseball today — Joe McCarthy
[Chorus 1] [Repeat – slightly fuller arrangement]
Sure I’m lucky
Sure I’m lucky
Yet today
I consider myself
The luckiest man
On the face of the earth
[Verse 2] [Spoken Word – deeper tone, more emotional emphasis]
When the New York Giants
A team you would give your right arm to beat — and vice versa —
Sends you a gift — that’s something
When everybody
Down to the groundskeepers
And those boys in white coats
Remember you with trophies — that’s something
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law
Who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter — that’s something
A father and mother who work all their lives
So you can have an education
And build your body — it’s a blessing
When you have a wife
Who has been a tower of strength
And shown more courage
Than you dreamed existed — that’s the finest I know
Sure I’m lucky
That’s something
That’s something
That’s the finest I know
Yet today
I consider myself
The luckiest man
On the face of the earth
So I close in saying
That I might have been given a bad break
But I’ve got
An awful lot
To live for
Yet today
Yet today
I consider myself
The luckiest man
On the face of the earth
Sure I’m lucky
But I’ve got an awful lot
To live for
I consider myself
The luckiest man
On the face of the earth
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