Birmingham (Randy Newman)

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Pour une fois, commençons par la version seconde, car le piano est un instrument cher à mon cœur, et je trouve souvent du charme à ces versions instrumentales, jouées par des amateurs, avec quelques hésitations qui montrent la magie de la mélodie :

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Birmingham figure dans Gold Old Boys, le quatrième album de Randy Newman, et elle figure parmi les chansons les plus célèbres du compositeur :

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Voici les paroles :

"Birmingham"
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Got a wife, got a family
Earn my livin' with my hand
I'm a roller in a steel mill
In downtown Birmingham
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My daddy was a barber
And a most unsightly man
He was born in Tuscaloosa
But he died right here in Birmingham
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Birmingham, Birmingham
The greatest city in Alabam'
You can travel 'cross this entire land
But there ain't no place like Birmingham
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My wife's named Mary
But she's called Marie
We live in a three room house
With a pepper tree
I work all day in the factory
That's alright with me
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Got a big black dog
Whose name is Dan
Lives in my backyard in Birmingham
He is the meanest dog in Alabam'
Get 'em Dan
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Birmingham, Birmingham
The greatest city in Alabam'
You can travel 'cross this entire land
But there ain't no place like Birmingham

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