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"Tales of Brave Ulysses" is a song performed by the 1960s group Cream. The lyrics were written by artist Martin Sharp, and the music was composed by Eric Clapton. Arranged by Robert Stigwood, the song is featured on Cream's album ''Disraeli Gears''. The song is credited on the single to P. Brown, J. Bruce, and E. Clapton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cream - Making of Tales of Brave Ulysses )〕 Clapton was at The Speakeasy Club with his girlfriend, French model Charlotte Martin, mother of photographer Scarlet Page. Charlotte introduced him to Sharp, and "we hit it off, I liked him a lot". Sharp said he'd just written a song, Clapton replied he'd just written some music, so Sharp wrote the lyrics down on a serviette along with his address and handed them over. Sharp had written them to the tune of Judy Collins' version of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne". Clapton was a fan of guitarist Zal Yanovsky of The Lovin' Spoonful, and had heard their Summer in the City a year earlier, and has said that the Tale of Brave Ulysses riff "was straight out of it". It was Bassist Jack Bruce that found a way to sing the lyrics over Clapton's riff. The day before writing the song, Clapton discovered the wah-wah pedal, which added "atmospherics" to the song.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Making of Disraeli Gears )〕 == Song meaning == The lyrics are inspired by Homer's ''Odyssey'', an account of the adventures undertaken by Ulysses. This can be seen in the song's reference to "how his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing," an event from Homer's epic poem. When interviewed on the episode of the VH1 show, ''Classic Albums'', which featured ''Disraeli Gears'', lyricist Sharp explained that he had recently returned from Ibiza, which was the source of many of the images in the song (''e.g.'' "tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers") and the general feeling of having left an idyll to return to "the hard lands of the winter"; Clapton stated in the same show that he had been independently writing a tune based on The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City", and when Sharp gave him the words (on the back of a bar napkin) they fit the tune.〔"Cream: Disraeli Gears", ''Classic Albums on VH1'', November 3, 2006〕 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「Tales of Brave Ulysses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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