2017-03-20 16:49:04流浪阿狗
老歌亂談(691)My Elusive Dreams
1966，24歲的Tammy Wynette帶著三個女兒從阿拉巴馬州搬到田納西州的納許維爾，為的是想得到唱片公司的一紙合約，以圓她想成為鄉村歌星的夢想。就在接連地被接觸的唱片公司打槍後，到了唱片製作人Billy Sherrill處，其實Billy Sherrill原來根本沒有意願要簽她，而正好有一首《Apartment No. 9》還沒找到人唱，就讓Tammy Wynette來試唱，一唱之下，Sherrill當場就簽下了Wynette，千里馬終於遇到了伯樂。
Billy Sherrill & Tammy Wynette
《Apartment No. 9》是Tammy Wynette進入歌壇的第一首單曲，雖然歌、唱俱佳，可惜離擠進排行榜前40名還差了一些 ( No. 44 )。緊接著的一首《Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad》，則殺出了重圍，衝上了排行榜的第3名。第3首即是這首《My Elusive Dreams》，由Wynette和David Houston雙人合唱，在1967年10月拿下了鄉村榜的冠軍，也跨越進入熱門榜 ( No. 89 )。雖非個人的單曲，而確實是Tammy Wynette所獲得的第一首冠軍曲。
每個人應該都有夢想，但往往許多夢想都難以實現。歌曲中的這位太太，跟著先生至少待過6個州 ：Texas, Utah, Alabama ( Birmingham), Tennessee ( Memphis, Nashville) Nebraska和Alaska，但都未追尋到他們的理想。在Memphis時太太還懷了個孩子，但隱喻在Alaska時過世 ( 離開時仍僅有兩人 ) 。最後，看來先生有意識到太太斷了念並厭倦了再跟隨他繼續前行打拼，先生的夢想應該就此消逝了。
I followed you to Texas
I followed you to Utah
We didn't find it there, so we moved on
I followed you to Alabama
Things looked good in Birmingham
We didn't find it there, so we moved on
I know you're tired of following
My elusive dreams and schemes
For they're only fleeting things
My elusive dreams
I had your child in Memphis
You heard of work in Nashville
We didn't find it there, so we moved on
To a small farm in Nebraska
To a gold mine in Alaska
We didn't find it there, so we moved on
And now we've left Alaska
Because there was no go-old mine
But this time, only two of us moves on
Now all we have is each other
And a little memory to cling to
And still you won't let me go on alone