[Iris Lloyd Troy]

А эти песни мне очень хотелось послушать в последние несколько дней.
В них есть кое-что общее. Это элементы госпел и спиричуэл, где-то - основным стилем песни и являющиеся, где-то - местами.

Billy Joel - The River Of Dreams

lyrics

Songwriters: STEWART, DAVID ALLAN / LOVE, AIDAN PHILLIP / SUGANDH, TINA

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To a river so deep

I must be looking for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it's too hard to cross

And even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore
And try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find out what I've been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the valley of fear
To a river so deep

And I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I would never lose
Something somebody stole
[ Lyrics from: www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/billy_joel/river_of... ]
I don't know why I go walking at night
But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore
I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life
Until I find what it is that I've been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the jungle of doubt
To a river so deep

I know I'm searching for something
Something so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind

In the middle of the night

I'm not sure about a life after this
God knows I've never been a spiritual man
Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river
That runs to the promised land

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of truth
To the river so deep

We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams

In the middle of the night

А в финале этой песни, на затухании звука, Джоэл поет строчку из старой песни "Глория", которую я знаю в исполнении The Manhattan Transfer: "Gloria - It's not Sherie!"
Вот песню про Глорию поет Брайан Зетцер со своим оркестром:

Brian Setzer Orchestra - Gloria

Cher - Walking In Memphis - песня - трибьют Элвису, а в клипе Шер его косплеит. Там есть строчки, которые очень трогают меня:
Now Gabriel plays piano every Friday at the Hollywood
And they brought me down to see him
And they asked me if I would
Do a little number and I sang with all my might
He said: Tell me are you a Christian child?
And I said: Man I am tonight

Cher - Walking in Memphis megalyrics.ru/lyric/cher/walking-in-memphis.htm...

Cher - Walking In Memphis [Official Music Video

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Cher - Many Rivers To Cross - вокал Шер тут великолепен просто. Концертная запись, она же, по-моему, и входила в альбом.

Cher - Many Rivers To Cross

Та же песня в исполнении автора - Джимми Клиффа.

Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross

Mike Oldfield - Heaven's Open

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