フォスター・メドレー

--- S.C.Foster Medley ---
【  曲 名  】フォスター・メドレー
【 作曲者名 】Stephen Collins Foster
【 作詞者名 】Stephen Collins Foster
【アーティスト】−
【データ作成者】蛞蝓なめちゃん (odasan@ma.catv.ne.jp)
【 データ形式 】標準MIDIファイル(.MID) Format 0 :Timebase=120
【 作成ソフト 】Cakewalk Proffessional Ver 7.0
【 WRD作成 】御神籤おみちゃん
【 対応音源 】GS/GM (SC-88Pro で調整)

私、蛞蝓なめちゃん は、「蛞蝓屋敷」というホームページを開いておりまして、月替りで「今月の歌」なるものを掲載しております。ところが著作権の問題があって、なかなか選曲に難儀しておるわけですね。でも、フォスターさんの曲はパブリックドメインで、しかも多くの方がご存じなもんですから、しばらくこれで行こうと考えまして、楽譜を探し出して、ネズミの糞と龍の背骨の粉末をふりかけて えいやっ! と呪文を唱えると、メドレーができあがりました。さしあたり今月(1999年4月)は「金髪のジェニー」ギターソロ版を公開しております。来月は...ないしょです。

全部で 8曲ございまして、1コーラスずつ演奏しております。

音楽の教科書等でおなじみの曲ばかりですね。ごく軽くギター・デュオでアレンジ致しました。GM System On と GS Reset を入れておりまして、S-YXG50 で再生しても大丈夫でした。SC-88 をお使いの方は、できれば SC-55 map に切替えてお聞きください。WEB ページでの再生の便宜を考え、セットアップ小節は 1小節のみとし、Format 0 で保存致しました。
MASSA'S IN DE COLD GROUND
Round de meadows am aringing
de darkey's mournful song,
While de mocking bird am singing,
Happy as de day am long,
Where deivy am a creeping,
O'er de grassy mound,
Dare old massa am asleeping,
Sleeping in de cold, cold ground.
Down in de corn field,
Hear dat mournful sound,
All de darkey's am aweeping,
Massa's in de cold, cold ground.
OLD BLACK JOE
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away.
Gone from the earth to a better land I know
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe!"
I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low,
I hear those gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe!"

Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain?
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again?
Grieving for forms now departed long ago?
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe!"
I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low,
I hear those gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe!"

BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
Beautiful Dreamer wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee.
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away!
Beautiful Dreamer queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody,
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng,
Beautiful Dreamer awake unto me,
Beautiful Dreamer awake unto me.
CAMPTOWN RACES
De Camptown ladies sing dis song,
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
De Camptown racetrack five miles long,
Oh! Doo-dah day!
I come down dah wid my hat caved in,
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
I go back home wid a pocketfull of tin,
Oh! Doo-dah day!
Gwine to run all night!
Gwin to run all day!
I'll bet my money on de bobtail nag,
Somebody bet on de bay.
JEANIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR
I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Borne, like a vapor on the summer air,
I see her tripping where the bright streamsplay,
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way,
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour,
Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er
Oh! I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor on the soft summer air.
OH! SUSANNA
I've come from Alabama wid my banjo on my knee,
I've gwine to Lou'siana my true lub for to see,
It rain'd all night de day I left de wedder it was dry,
The sun so hot I froze to def, Susanna don't you cry
Oh! Susanna, Oh, do not cry for me,
I've come from Alabama wid my banjo on my knee.
MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
'Tis summer, the darkies are gay,
The corn top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom
while the birds make music all the day,
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright,
By'n by Hard Times comes aknocking at the door,
Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night.
Weep no more, my lady, Oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky Home,
For the old Kentucky Home, far away.
OLD FOLKS AT HOME
'Way down upon de Swanee river, Far, far away
Dere's wha my heart is turning ebber,
Dere's wha de old folks stay.
All up and down de whole creation, Sadly I roam
Still longing for de old plantations,
And for de old folks at home
All de world am sad and dreary Ebrywhere I roam,
Oh! darkeys how my heart grows weary
Far from de old folks at home.