翻訳と辞書
Words near each other
・ Goodson, Missouri
・ Goodspaceguy
・ Goodspeed
・ Goodspeed (internet provider)
・ Goodspeed (surname)
・ Goodspeed Airport
・ Goodspeed Glacier
・ Goodspeed House
・ Goodspeed Musicals
・ Goodspeed Nunataks
・ Goodspeed Publishing
・ Goodsports
・ Goodspring, Tennessee
・ Goodsprings Cemetery
・ Goodnight Records
Goodnight Saigon
・ Goodnight Scrub National Park
・ Goodnight Song
・ Goodnight Sweetheart
・ Goodnight Sweetheart (album)
・ Goodnight Sweetheart (Joe Diffie song)
・ Goodnight Sweetheart (Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly song)
・ Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series)
・ Goodnight to You All
・ Goodnight Tonight
・ Goodnight Unknown
・ Goodnight Vienna
・ Goodnight, Beantown
・ Goodnight, Bull Creek!
・ Goodnight, Irene


Dictionary Lists
翻訳と辞書 辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ]
スポンサード リンク

Goodnight Saigon : ウィキペディア英語版
Goodnight Saigon

"Goodnight Saigon" is a song written by Billy Joel, originally appearing on his 1982 album ''The Nylon Curtain'', about the Vietnam War. It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines beginning with their military training on Parris Island and then into different aspects of Vietnam combat.
==Lyrics and music==
The lyrics of "Goodnight Saigon" are about Marines in battle bonding together, fighting their fears and trying to figure out how to survive.〔 The singer, a United States Marine, sings of "we" rather than "I," emphasizing that the Marines are all in the situation together.〔 In the bridge Joel sings of the darkness and the fear it induced in the Marines .〔 This leads into the refrain, which has multiple voices coming together to sing that the Marines will "all go down together", emphasizing their camaraderie.〔〔 Images from the war captured in the song include reading ''Playboy Magazine'', seeing Bob Hope, listening to The Doors, smoking from a hash pipe, praying to Jesus, remembering Charlie and John F. Baker and those who died in the fighting.〔〔 Joel has said that he "wasn't trying to make a comment on the war, but writing about the soldier as a person."〔 According to ''Rolling Stone Magazine'' critic Stephen Holden, "As the song unfolds, Joel's "we" becomes every American soldier, living and dead, who fought in Southeast Asia."
The song begins with the sound of crickets chirping, providing the feeling of evening coming. This leads into the sound of helicopters, which conjures up images of helicopters fighting in the Vietnam War or picking up wounded Marines.〔〔 Then Joel plays a figure on the piano before beginning to sing.〔〔 The opening is reversed at the end of the song, as the piano figure returns, followed by the sound of helicopters, and finally the crickets, before the song comes to an end.〔

抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)
ウィキペディアで「Goodnight Saigon」の詳細全文を読む



スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース

Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.