Canciones para una vida - Gary Moore - Over The Hills And Far Away

OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

Un músico que no necesita presentación en un tema archiconocido pero no por ello menos necesario, se trata del irlandés Gary Moore y su tema Over the hills and far away. Hablar de Gary Moore es hablar de los inicios de nuestro género, y me estoy refiriendo a los años 70 cuando comienza en la música con bandas como Skid Row, (no confundir con los Skid Row de los 80), o Thin Lizzy con los que colabora fugazmente en dos breves periodos. Desde el comienzo encamina su carrera en solitario, cosa que no resulta extraña si atendemos a la calidad como vocalista y guitarrista, faceta esta última en que no exageraremos si lo tildamos de virtuoso. 20 discos de estudio entre 1973 y 2008 descubren a un músico prolífico que comienza a flirtear con el Blues desde muy pronto pero que ocupará gran parte de sus esfuerzos compositivos a partir de los 90. La época que a mi más me gusta con diferencia es la que tuvo en los 80, y uno de los discos que más me gustan es este Wild Frontier, su séptima obra de estudio con un aire bien hardrockero y con grandísimos temas lo que hace de él un disco que hay que tener, igual que sus dos discos anteriores y el siguiente de 1989 After the war. Como digo a partir de 1990 su estilo cambia mas hacia el blues-rock alejándose del magnético ritmo de canciones como este insuperable over the hills and far away, un tema imprescindible, a pesar de todo y por muy machacado que lo tengas. Músico que falleció en 2011 llevándose con él un trocito de la historia viva del Rock. Dejo un enlace a youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZCnq7yvXtk 

 They came for him one winter's night
Arrested, he was bound
They said there'd been a robbery
His pistol had been found
They marched him to the station house
He waited till the dawn
And as they led him to the dock
He knew that he'd been wronged
You stand accused of robbery
He heard the bailiff say
He knew without an alibi
Tomorrow's light would mourn his freedom
Over the hills and far away
For ten long years he'll count the days
Over the mountains and the seas
A prisoner's life for him there'll be
He knew that it would cost him deer
But yet he dare not say
Just where he had been that fateful night
A secret it must stay
He had to fight back tears of rage
His heart beat like a drum
For with the wife of his best friend
He'd spent his final night of freedom
Over the hills and far away
He swears he will return one day
Far from the mountains and the seas
Back in her arms again he'll be
Over the hills and far away
Each night within his prison cell
He looks out through the bars
He reads the letters that she wrote
One day he'll know the taste of freedom
Over the hills and far away
She prays he will return one day
As sure as the rivers reach the seas
Back in his arms again she'll be
Over the hills and far away
He swears he will return one day
As sure as the river reach the sea
Back in his arms is where she'll be
Over the hills and far away
She prays he will return one day
As sure as the rivers reach the seas
Back in her arms is where he'll be
Over the hills
Over the hills and far away
Over the hills
Over the hills and far away

By Nash