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"Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" is a song written by English musician George Harrison, released on fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr's 1973 solo album, ''Ringo''. In addition to Starr and Harrison, the recording features contributions from Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson of the Band, and multi-instrumentalist David Bromberg. Harrison began writing "Sunshine Life for Me" in Ireland while staying with Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan in 1969. The composition reflects the influence of Irish folk music, as well as aspects of country and hootenanny. Lyrically, the song espouses an escape from modern life for the tranquility of nature. The "Raymond" mentioned in the song title was a lawyer hired by Beatles manager Allen Klein to represent Harrison, Starr and John Lennon in the lawsuit instigated by Paul McCartney in 1971 to dissolve the band's legal partnership. ==Background and composition== George Harrison wrote "Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" in 1969 while on holiday with his wife, Pattie Boyd, in Ireland.〔Clayson, p. 242.〕 They were staying at the home of Scottish singer Donovan,〔 who, having accompanied Harrison and his fellow Beatles on their visit to India in 1968,〔Mark Paytress, "A Passage to India", ''Mojo: The Beatles' Final Years Special Edition'', Emap (London, 2003), p. 12.〕 had moved to Ireland, partly to escape the pressures of fame.〔''The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll'', p. 280.〕 In his 1980 autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine'', Harrison recalls composing the melody on an open-tuned guitar and adds: "I wrote it like an old Irish folk song a bit like country music ..."〔 The lyrics reflect what Harrison biographer Simon Leng describes as a theme of "escape from people, pressure, and society":〔Leng, p. 139.〕 Leng describes the song as "musically an homage to the spirit of the Band",〔 who epitomised the late-1960s embracing of pastoral values,〔John Harris, "Into the Woods", ''Mojo'', December 2003, p. 92.〕〔''The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll'', p. 50.〕 and with whom Harrison had spent time in Woodstock over the 1968 Thanksgiving holidays.〔Helm, p. 178.〕 Author Ian Inglis views "Sunshine Life for Me" as a demonstration of Harrison's "love of country, folk, and blues".〔 In keeping with the rustic theme,〔Rodriguez, p. 35.〕 Harrison states in the song's third verse that he would prefer to associate with trees than with humans,〔Allison, p. 71.〕 since "''most folks just bore me / Always imposing ...''"〔Harrison, p. 231.〕 In the second verse, Harrison addresses a lawyer named Raymond:〔Harrison, pp. 231, 232.〕 Harrison explains in ''I, Me, Mine'' that Raymond was hired by Beatles manager Allen Klein to represent him, Ringo Starr and John Lennon during Paul McCartney's lawsuit against the three of them,〔 as fellow partners in Apple Corps, during the early months of 1971.〔Doggett, pp. 154, 156.〕 Inglis writes that Harrison's suggestion that Raymond "''sail away''" is "perfectly apt, given the song's likeness to a traditional sea shanty".〔Inglis, p. 55.〕 Leng groups "Sunshine Life for Me" with "The Pirate Song", a sea shanty written with comedian Eric Idle in 1975, in which Harrison sings of wanting to be a pirate rather than a celebrity.〔Leng, p. 189.〕 Another Harrison biographer, Dale Allison, views the track as an example of how its composer's work "often revels in the natural world".〔 The same "easy romanticism about nature", Allison writes, returns in "Blow Away" and songs from ''Gone Troppo'' (1982), while also contrasting with the "ecological anxiety" Harrison expresses in tracks such as "Tears of the World", "Cockamamie Business" and the Monty Python-influenced "Save the World".〔Allison, pp. 70–71, 153–54.〕 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「Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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