His success as a performer had just begun to pop up. The entire album went on to be a name-making effort for Nelson, reviving his career in one fell swoop.īefore releasing “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain,” Nelson was primarily known as a songwriter, penning songs like “Crazy” for Patsy Cline and “Hello Walls” for Faron Young. Nelson’s version of this track appears on Red Headed Stranger, a 1975 concept record about a fugitive preacher on the lam after killing his wife. Is it an ode to a lost love or a eulogy for a passed loved one? And where does it fall in the context of Red Headed Stranger? We’re going through the meaning behind “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain” below. There are differing opinions as to what this song means. before Nelson got his hands on it, the version that appears on Red Headed Stranger has just the right amount of somber notes and plaintive yearning that it has gone on to be a classic in the country mythos. Though “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain” was originally written by Fred Rose in 1945 and recorded by Roy Acuff and Hank Williams Sr. I didn’t think this translated very well so I omitted it.Willie Nelson certainly knows how to pen an enduring classic, but he also has a knack for putting his own spin on other artists’ songs to the level that his version becomes the definitive one. (1) I believe “tooi sora e iku” (“to go to the far away sky”) is an expression used in Japanese sort of like “passed on”. I couldn’t find a site where I was able to actually copy&paste lyrics from :( Notes: I apologise for the lack of kanji lyrics. The town where movement has begun at dawn It feels like I'm being crushed by sadness In the incessantly falling rain in my heart, she left a cross The night she faded away and had to go (1)Īnd again somewhere in this town I can hear that song Tonight is just like that night one year ago I just wanted her to smile, I fell in love Her eyes were watery at that song, somehow that’s dear to me I plucked a guitar on the street corner, a sad love song On that freezing rainy night three years ago Shoshite mata kono machi no dokoka de kikoeru ano utaįuri yamanu kokoro no ame ni nokosareta kurosu hitotsu Sono uta ni namidagundeta sore ga nandaka itoshikuteĪitsu ni tada waratte hoshikute koi ga hajimattaĪre wa sou ichinen mae no choudo konna ame no yoruĪitsu ga kiete tooi sora e icchimatta yoru (1) Machikado de tsuma hiku gitaa mono kanashii koi no uta Are wa sou sannen mae no kogoesouna ame no yoru
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