C004 My old Joe
Audio clip: My old Joe
1 Background
To save Cathy, we had 3 other songs produce an EP. Alain Barrière scraped bottom of the barrel and its product 3 songs from sketches that yesterday, before someone did (My Life, p50). My old Joe is one of those three songs ...
2 Lyrics
6 stanzas, 3 of 10 verses to the choruses of 6 to 3. The first stanza tells
return, the second gives the causes of departure, the third discusses the impossibility of forgetting. The verses
an update on the situation: the first I dragged the whole world the second As if everything would change the third I returned it's not for nothing .
3 Music
A music the way traditional music that cowboys of the American West were supposed to sing the evening before the fire ... In fact the traditional American music is very complex, such as folk-song, country, bluegrass, Cajun music, .. not to mention jazz. The simplistic view of American folklore, such as Sheila sang in 1965 in The American folklore is a very crude caricature, it is as if we represented all the French with a beret and a baguette under his arm. ..
Seen from this simplistic view, all the cowboys called Joe, and when must choose a name in the English style because it has been more chic, it will Joe otherwise Battling Joe like in the song sung by Yves Montand ...
four themes
painful cycle of unhappy love affairs. We are here at the end of the cycle. The great love arrived, and it went very wrong. Our love is so unfortunate that not only is unable to forget and draw a line under its past but refuses any possibility to consider is comfort in other arms. The situation is hopeless.
The road, Highway: Alone in the night you are stayed on the road / We will be alone on the path .
Sea: I have traveled many seas . For the first time, this theme of the sea that appears.
countries: the U.S. (the style of music, cowboys from Arizona), Hawaii, Russia (balalaika)
Friendship or more exactly the Compassionate: To feel that one not laugh every morning.
The senselessness of life, which shows through in the background.
5 Analysis
In My old Joe, this is not music or side folk who are the most interesting aspects. In Rather, the music catchy and cheerful hides a terrible despair and hopeless. True love only leads to the empty When I thought that was coming / I have plenty of all / Not knowing that it was poisoned. What then? Travelling to forget? We travel with her memories, traveling with his grief. And when we return is always the night.
Rest friendship. But not a full and meaningful friendship. No, it's a kind of last resort where the two friends were to deceive their respective solitudes. A sort of union of cripples life ... All this is not very exciting and one wonders what is the meaning of life, what is the meaning of our life when we were not able to prepare for its aftermath?
Basically My old Joe is a song of despair bottomless, you swim in the great depression and life is nothing but a black tunnel with no end of which side one turns. ..
6 Sources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leNY-ju8m3s
http://opale.country.free.fr/ARBRE% 20GEN .. . OUNTRY.pdf
http://www.frmusique.ru/texts/m/montand_...ingjoe.htm
Jacques-Deric
Barriérophile heterodox and iconoclastic
