很難有這麼一首曲子被不下二十位名家翻唱。


各家雖然翻唱曲風迥異，卻都憑該曲取得了不俗的成績。





1971年，美國民謠女歌手Lori Lieberman在一次偶然的機緣下，


去聽了當時還並不見傳的另一位民謠歌手Don Mclean的現場演唱。


Lori Lieberman被Don的一首歌“Empty chair”深深地打動了，


她隨後寫下詩歌“Killing me softly with his blues”。





這首詩後來被Charles Fox和Norman Gimbel創作成了歌曲


“Killing me softly with his song”,並由Lori Lieberman親自演唱。


但真正讓這首歌走紅的是美國老牌黑人女歌手Roberta Flack，


1973年Flack憑藉“Killing me softly with his song”


獲得了格萊美三項大獎。





Roberta Flack的曲風帶有流行色彩的“輕柔爵士”，


嗓音厚實，略帶沙啞，高亢嘹亮，中氣十足，


同時也蘊藏多變的真假聲技巧。


現在，Roberta Flack雖然隱退歌壇，


但像Madonna、Whitney Houston等後生巨星均曾拜她為師。





她也會應邀偶然出現在白宮，為總統以及國賓表演。





歌曲Killing me softly with his son


後被許多歌手演唱過，傳唱至今，成為不朽名曲之一。








Strumming my pain with his fingers,


Singing my life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song,


Killing me softly with his song,


Telling my whole life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song.





I heard he sang a good song,


I heard he had a style,


And so I came to see him and listen for a while.


And there he was this young boy,


A stranger to my eyes





Strumming my pain with his fingers,


Singing my life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song,


Killing me softly with his song,


Telling my whole life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song.





I felt all flushed with fever,


Embarrassed by the crowd,


I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud,


I prayed that he would finish,


But he just kept right on





Strumming my pain with his fingers,


Singing my life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song,


Killing me softly with his song,





Telling my whole life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song.





He sang if he knew me,


In all my dark despair,


And then he looked right through me


As if I wasn’t there.


And he just kept on singing


Singing clear and strong





Strumming my pain with his fingers,


Singing my life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song,


Killing me softly with his song,


Telling my whole life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song.





Strumming my pain with his fingers,


Singing my life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song,


Killing me softly with his song,


Telling my whole life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song.





He was strumming my pain,


Here he was singing my life,


Killing me softly with his song,


Killing me softly with his song,


Telling my whole life with his words,


Killing me softly with his song.