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Oklahoma (1955)

　　　　
脚本・音楽　 Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
出演　Gordon MacRae ..  Curly      Shirley Jones   ...   　 Laurey
　      Rod Steiger      .　 Jud       Gloria Grahame .. 　　Annie
　      Gene Nelson ..Willy 　 Charlotte Greenwood.. Aunt Eller
原作　Lynn Riggs, Green Grow the Lilacs　

＊　２０世紀への変わり目におけるオクラホマ（１９０７年に４６番目の州となる）開拓民たちの話。土地を持たないで牧場主から頼まれる牛の移動を仕事とするカウボウイの１人Curlyと土地を耕す農民の娘Laureyの恋物語である。二人とも気持ちは引かれるが、共に勝ち気であるために、率直に愛を告白することができない。そこに、Laureyを好いている農場の下働きのJudが割り込もうとチャンスをうかがっている。教会の建設費を調達するために、娘たちが作ったピクニック用の食事を、男性たちがそれぞれ競りで買い取る。その代金は、コミュニティの教会建設費に充てられるという仕組みだ。CurlyとJudがLaureyの作った弁当を競り合う場面は見物だ。競り勝った方がLaureyの弁当だけでなく、Laureyと一緒にそれを食べることなるからだ。Judはこつこつ貯めた金を持っている。Curlyは、ほとんど金がない。その場で他の男たちに、自分のピストルを売ったり、最後には馬の鞍まで売って、金を調達して、競り勝つ。しかし、これを恨んJudは、Curly とLaureyの結婚式の晩に仕返しをする。・・・・しかし、最後はハッピー・エンディング。そして、オクラホマが新しい州となることを祝うオクラホマの合唱で締めくくられる。

＊　子供のころ（７才くらい）、母親に連れられて一緒に見た映画だが、その時はつまらなかったが、その楽しいメロディーはどういうわけか、何時までも耳に残っている。Farmer and Cowmanはいかにも踊り出したくなるような音楽、また、Many a New Day とOut of my Dreamsは、Laureyの歌声が綺麗だったのが印象的だった。どのメロディーもすぐ口ずさむことができる。

＊　現実のオクラホマは、良くも悪しくも、西部開拓の特徴を備えている。開拓によって、オクラホマは豊かな麦の生産地となり、また、放牧にも適しているために飼われている牛の数も多い。しかし、東部のアメリカ原住民（インディアン）を東部からこの地に追いやり（現在もインディアンの人口も多い）、また、land runと言って、開拓民達が合図とともに一斉に走り出して土地を囲い込むという「土地取り競争」が行われたのもオクラホマだ。さらにCivil　Warの後も、黒人達に対する差別、KuKluxＫｌａｎの暴虐もひどかったといわれている。オクラホマはRoger & Hammerstainのすばらしいミュージカルの場面ではあるが、現実にも目をやる必要がある。
＊　とはいえ、５０年たっても人々の心に残るミュージカルを作り出すところはすごいな。私の書く論文や文章（私は、研究論文を書くのが本職だが）など、誰が５０年後に読んでくれるのだろうか？こんなことを考えると、つい寂しい気持ちになる。

Lyrics
Overture
1 Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (Curly)
(1) There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow.
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye
And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky.

Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way.

(2) All the cattle are standin' like statues
All the cattle are standin' like statues
They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by
But a little brown maverick is winkin' her eye

Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way.

(3) All the sounds of the earth are like music
All the sounds of the earth are like music
The breeze is so busy it don't miss a tree
An' a ol' weepin' willer is laughin' at me

Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way.
Oh, what a beautiful day!

2 Surrey With the Fringe on Top (Curly and Aunt Eller)
When I take you out tonight with me
Honey, here's the way it's gonna be
You will set behind a team of snow-white horses
In the slickest gig you'll ever see.

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
When I take you out in the surrey
When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top
Watch that fringe an' see how it flutters
When I drive them high-steppin' strutters
Nosy pokes will peak through their shutters and their eyes will pop
The wheels are yellow, the upholstery's brown
The dashboard's genuine leather.
With eisenglass curtains you can roll right down
In case there's a change in the weather

Two bright side-lights winkin' and blinkin'
Ain't no finer rig I'm a thinkin'
You can keep yer rig if yer thinkin' that I'd keer to swap
Fer that shiny little surry with the fringe on the top


Would you say the fringe was made of silk?

Wouldn't have no other kind but silk

Has it really got a team of snow-white horses?

One's like snow, the other's more like milk.
All the world'll fly in a flurry
When I take you out in the surry
When I take you out in the surry with the fringe on top.
When we hit that road, hell-for-leather
Cats and dogs will dance in the heather
Birds and frogs'll sing all together and the toads will hop
The wind'll whistle as we rattle along,
The cows'll moo in the clover
The river will ripple out a whispered song,
And whisper it over and over
Don't you wish you'd go on forever
Don't you wish you'd go on forever
Don't you wish you'd go on forever
And you'd never stop?
In that shiny little surry with the fringe on the top.

I can see the stars gittin' blurry
When we ride back home in the surry
Ridin' slowly home in the surry with the fringe on top
I can feel the day gettin' older
Feel a sleepy head near my shoulder
Noddin', droopin', close to my shoulder
Till it falls kerplop.
The sun is swimmin' on the rim of a hill
The moon is takin' a header.
And jist as I'm thinkin' all the earth is still
A lark'll wake up in the meader.
Hush, you bird. My baby's a sleepin'
Maybe got a dream worth a keepin'
Whoa, you team an' jist keep a creepin'
At a slow clip, clop.
Don't you hurry little Surry With the Fringe On the Top

3 Kansas City (Will)　（略）

4 I Cain't Say No (Annie)
It ain't so much a question of not knowin' what to do
I knowed what's right an' wrong since I've been ten.
I heared a lot of stories an' I reckon they're true
About how girls are put upon by men.
I know I mustn't fall into the pit
But when I'm with a feller (fellow)
I fergit (forget)

I'm just a girl who cain't say 'no'
I'm in a terrible fix.
I always say 'Come on, let's go' just when I aughta say 'Nix.'
When a person tries to kiss a girl
I know she aughta give his face a smack.
But as soon as someone kisses me
I somehow sorta want to kiss him back.
I'm just a fool when lights are low
I cain't be prissy an' quaint
I ain't the type that can faint
How can I be what I ain't?
I cain't say 'no'

Whatcha gonna do when a feller gets flirty
An' starts to talk purty
Whatcha gonna do?
S'pposin' that he says that your lips are like cherrys,
Or roses, or berries
Whatcha gonna do?
S'pposin' that he says that yer sweeter than cream
and he's gotta have cream or die?
Whatcha gonna do when he talks that way?
Spit in his eye?

I'm just a girl who cain't say 'no'
Kissin's my favorite food.
With or without the mistletoe
I'm in a holiday mood.
Other girls are coy an' hard to catch
But other girls ain't havin' any fun!
Ev'ry time I lose a wrastlin' match
I have a funny feelin' that I won!
Though I can feel the undertoe
I never make a complaint
'Till it's too late for restraint
Then when I want to I cain't
I cain't say 'no'

5 Many a New Day (Laurey)
Why should a woman who is healthy and strong
Blubber like a baby if her man's goes away?
A weepin' an' a whalin' that he's done her wrong
That's one thing you'll never hear me say.
Never gonna think that the man I lose is the only man among men!
I'll snap my fingers to show I don't care
I'll buy me a brand new dress to wear
I'll scrub my neck
And I'll brush my hair
And start all over again.

Many a new face will please my eye
Many a new love will find me
Never have I once looked back to sigh
Over the romance behind me
Many a new day will dawn before I do.

Many a like lad may kiss and fly
A kiss gone by is bygone.
Never have I asked an August sky
"Where has last July gone?"
Never have I wandered through the rye
Wondering "where has some guy gone?"
Many a new day will dawn before I do.

Many a new face will please my eye
Many a new love will find me
Never have I once looked back to sigh
Over the romance behind me
Many a new day will dawn before I do.

Never have I chased the honeybee
Who carelessly cajoled me
Somebody jist as sweet as he
Cheered me and consoled me.
Never have I wept into my tea
Over the deal someone doled me

Many a new day will dawn

Many a red sun will set
Many a blue moon will shine
Before I do!

6 People Will Say We're in Love (Laurey & Curly)
Why do they think up stories that link my name with yours?

Why do the neighbors gossip all day behind their doors?

I know a way to prove what they say is quite untrue
Here is the gist, a practical list of "don'ts" fer you.

Don't throw bouquets at me
Don't please my folks to much
Don't laugh at my jokes too much.
People will say we're in love.
Don't sigh and gaze at me.
Your sighs are so like mine.
Your eyes mustn't glow like mine
People will say we're in love!
Don't start collecting things
Give me my rose and my glove.
Sweetheart, they're suspecting things
People will say we're in love.

Some people claim that you are to blame as much as I
Why do you take the trouble to bake my fav'rite pie?
Grantin' your wish I carved our initials on that tree,
Just keep a slice of all the advice you give so free.
Don't praise my charm too much
Don't look so vain with me
Don't stand in the rain with me
People will say we're in love.

Don't take my arm to much
Don't keep your hand in mine
Your hand feels so grand in mine
People will say we're in love!
Don't dance all night with me
'till the stars fade from above
They'll see it's alright with me
People will say we're in love.

7 Poor Jud Is Dead (Curly and Jud)
Pore Jud is dead,
Pore Jud Fry is dead,
All gather 'round his cawfin now and cry
He had a heart of gold
And he wasn't very old
Oh why did such a feller have to die?
（以下略）

8 Out of My Dreams (Laurey)　聴く
Out of my dreams and into your arms
I long to fly
I will come as evening comes
To world of waitin' sky
Out of my dreams and into the hush
Of fallin' shadows
When the mist is low
And stars are breakin' through
Then out of my dreams I'll go
Into a dream with you...

Out of my dreams and into the hush
Of fallin' shadows
When the mist is low
And stars are breakin' through
Then out of my dreams I'll go
Into a dream with you...

9 Farmer and the Cowman (Andrew & Eller etc.)
The farmer and the cowman should be friends,
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
One man likes to push a plough,
The other likes to chase a cow,
But that's no reason why they cain't be friends.

Territory folks should stick together,
Territory folks should all be pals.
Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters,
Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals.

Territory folks should stick together,
Territory folks should all be pals.
Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters,
Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals.

I'd like to say a word for the farmer
He come out west and made a lot of changes
He come out west and built a lot of fences,
And built 'em right across our cattle ranges.

The farmer is a good in criticism
No matter what the cowman says or thinks
You seldom see 'im drinkin' in a bar room

Unless someboy else's buyin' drinks

But, the farmer and the cowman should be friends,
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
The cowman ropes a cow with ease,
The farmer steals her butter and cheese,
That's no reason why they cain't be friends

Territory folks should stick together,
Territory folks should all be pals.
Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters,
Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals.

I'd to say a word for the cowboy.
The road he treads is difficult and stoney
He rides for days on end
With just a poney for a friend
I sure feelin' sorry fer the poney!

The farmer should be sociable with the cowboy
If he rides by an' ask fer food an' water
Don't treat him like a louse
Make him welcome in your house
But be sure that you locked up yo' wife an' daughters

Territory folks should stick together,
Territory folks should all be pals.
Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters,
Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals!

10 All or Nothin' (Will & Annie)
You'll have to be a little more standoffish
When fellers offer you a buggy ride.

I'll give a imitation of a crawfish
And dig myself a hole where I can hide.

I heared how you was kickin' up some capers
When I was off in Kansas City, Mo.
I heard some things you couldn't print in papers
From fellers who been talkin' like they know!

Foot!
I only did the kind of things I orta, sorta,
To you I was as faithful as can be for me.
Them stories 'bout the way I lost my bloomers - rumors!
A lot of tempest in a pot o' tea!

The whole thing don't sound very good to me.
(以下略）

11 Oklahoma!
They couldn't pick a better time as that in life (Eller)
It ain't too early and it ain't too late (Andrew)
Startin' as a farmer with a brand new wife (Laurey)
Soon'll be livin' in a brand new state (Curly)

Brand new state!
Brand new state, gonna treat you great!
Gonna give you barley, carrots and potatoes,
Pasture for the cattle,
Spinach and tomatoes!
Flowers on the prarie where the June bugs zoom,
Plen'y of air and plen'y of room,
Plen'y of room to swing a rope!
Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope.

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain. (Curly)
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles in the sky.

We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ay-yip-ioee-Ay!

We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain Oklahoma (Chorus)
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I. (Every night)

Makin' lazy circles in the sky.

We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ay-yip-ioee-Ay!

We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.

Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla
Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla...

We know we belong to the land (Laurey & Curly)
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ay-yip-ioee-Ay!

We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O K.
L - A - H - O - M - A
OKLAHOMA!
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