Simon & GarfunkelSimon & Garfunkel
Leaves that are green

1966

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Paul Simon is een echte singer-songwriter.

Alles bij elkaar heeft hij (denk ik) wel het mooiste repertoire van allemaal (Simon & Garfunkel zijn dan ook al in 1957 begonnen onder de naam Tom & Jerry: Garfunkel was Tom en Simon was Jerry).

Vandaag kies ik voor dit liedje, maar morgen misschien voor Sound of silence, Somewhere they can't find me, Anji, Richard Cory, of I am a rock. Allemaal liedje van de LP Sounds of Silence out 1966. En dat is dan nog maar 1 LP van de velen.

Hier Sounds of Silence (het nummer dat de doorbraak voor hen betekende in de VS):

 

 

Lyrics

I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song
I'm twenty-two now, but I won't be for long
Time hurries on
And the leaves that are green turn to brown
And they whither with the wind
And they crumble in your hand

Once my heart was filled with love of a girl
I held her close, but she faded in the night
Like a poem I meant to write
And the leaves that are green turn to brown
And they wither with the wind
And they crumble in your hand

I threw a pebble in a brook
And watched the ripples run away
And they never made a sound
And the leaves that are green turn to brown
And they wither with the wind
And they crumble in your hand

Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello
Good-bye, Good-bye
Good-bye, Good-bye
That's all there is

And the leaves that are green turn to brown