Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway
Written by Gerry Rafferty
Performed by New Humblebums ( =Billy Connolly & Gerry Rafferty)1969
収録アルバム
Best of the Humblebums
1996,Sanctuary
ジェリー・ラファティについて詳しくは Wikipedia をご覧下さい。
奇行が伝えられ，その後，病から回復したとも聞いていたジェリー・ラファティ。
その彼が亡くなったことは，ウィークエンド・サンシャインで初めて知りました。
Her Father Didn't Like me Anyway は，ガールフレンドの父親とのジェネレーション・ギャップとそれに戸惑う自分を分ってくれない彼女について歌っています。
ラファティの歌は，おだやかで繊細。しかし，だいたいは憂鬱な世界なのです。
Youtubeをあたると，Chris Hennessy のバージョン(1978)等を聴くこともできます。
The coat she wore still lies upon the bed
The book I gave her that she never read
She left without a single word to say
Her father didn't like me anyway.
She always wanted more than I could give
She wasn't happy with the way we lived
I didn't feel like asking her to stay
Her father didn't like me anyway.
Daddy never knew just what she'd seen in me
Daddy didn't like my hair
Perhaps if we had talked, he'd
have seen something in me
But Daddy didn't really care.
To tell the truth I didn't have the nerve
I know I only got what I deserved
So now she's taken leave of me today
Her father didn't like me anyway.
Gerry Rafferty16 April 1947-4 January 2011(aged 63),Scotland