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WILLIE NELSON与BOB DYLAN合作唱BOB的作品“HEARTLAND”:
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HEARTLAND (Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan)
Written by Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan
Willie...
There's a home place under fire tonight in the heartland
And the bankers are taking my home and my land from me
There's a big gapin' hole in my chest now, where my heart was
And a hole in the sky, where God used to be
Bob...
There's a home place under fire tonight in the heartland
There's a well where the water's so bitter nobody can drink
Ain't no way to get high, and my mouth is so dry that I can't speak
Don't they know that I'm dyin? Why's nobody cryin' for me?
Both...
My American dream, fell apart at the seams
You tell me what it means, you tell me what it means
Willie...
There's a home place under fire tonight in a heartland
The bankers are taking the homes and the land away
There's a young boy closing his eyes tonight in a heartland
Who will wake up a man with some land and a loan he can't pay
Both...
His American dream, fell apart at the seams
You tell me what it means, you tell me what it means
My American dream, fell apart at the seams
You tell me what it means, you tell me what it means
There's a home place under fire tonight in a heartland...
谈艺术不能不谈个性。他们两位的嗓音所具有的鲜明特色给人留下深刻的印象。看看我们的那些著名民歌手,一个模子,十之八九你是分不出谁是谁的。
另有一点扯得远了点儿。
上个世纪80年代,在一次公开场合,Bob Dylan说要为非洲埃塞俄比亚的饥民募捐,Willie Nelson说,为什么不为我们美国的家庭农场募捐?后来在美国就有了为家庭农场募捐的活动,一直延续到现在。
20世纪初美国有约700万家庭农场,现在只有约200万。主要原因就是农田被大面积的工厂化(机械化大农场)和环境污染。每周有300多户放弃了他们的农场,其中很多是非洲后裔。而家庭农场曾是他们几代人的“美国梦想”。
机械化大农场难以顾及种植物的多样化,为提高效率不精确地大量使用化学品,不能合理的利用自然资源,这些问题都直接影响到环境和美国人的食品质量。所以,家庭农场问题说大点儿与每一个美国人都有关系,所以才会有了为其募捐的活动,并取得了良好的结果。这就是上面这首歌的背景,可能对理解歌词有所帮助。
不过,话还没完。我们国家的农业现状实际上也可以说基本是以家庭农场为基础的形式。我们一方面还没有发展到大农场挤垮家庭农场的程度,而另一方面,环境及人为地对食品的污染却已到了触目惊心的程度,论坛中那个关于大闸蟹的帖子就是典型的例子。