Try to remember...

Recebi há poucos dias um DVD com um show que Julie Andrews fez em 1965 para a TV americana com Gene Kelly.


Amei. Um clássico televisivo com sapateados e danças magníficas... Nas épocas do "microfone ruim" (quando realmente tinha-se que ter uma boa voz), da "camera inflexível" (quando tinha-se mesmo que ser bom e fotogenico ao máximo), da não-existencia de truques e efeitos especiais (quando tinha-se mesmo que SER e ter TALENTO!).

Porém o que mais me chamou a atenção foi um número muito simples e delicado... Nele, a forma - simples e honesta - com que Julie interpreta "Try to remember".

O mundo parece parar ao meu redor e só posso ouví-la... Simples e honesta como só Julie sabe ser. É.

Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow. Follow, follow...

Try to remember when life was so tender
When no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
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Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow.

Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
Although you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
Without a hurt the heart is hollow.
Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
The fire of September that made us mellow.
Deep in December, our hearts should remember
And follow.