世界一悲しい声の持ち主：ロバート・ワイアット

「世界一悲しい声」でネット検索すると、必ずヒットするのがイギリス人ボーカリストのロバート・ワイアット（Robert Wyatt）です。彼の歌う「オー・キャロライン」（O Caroline）、大好きなんです～

歌詞はすごくシンプル。訳すまでもないので、英文をそのまま引用します。

David's on piano, and I may play on a drum

And we'll try to make the music work, we'll try to have some fun

But I just can't help thinking that if you were here with me

I'd get all my thoughts in focus and play more excitingly

I love you still - Caroline

I want you still - Caroline

I need you still - Caroline

If you call this sentimental crap you'll make me mad

Cause you know that I would not sing about some passing fad

And if my attempts at rhyming aren't convincing to your ear

Then memories betray you through the passing of the year

I love you still - Caroline

I want you still - Caroline

I need you still - Caroline

You must think it doubtful that I mean the words I sing

Or that all attempts to reach you this way could not mean a thing

But you must admit we both thought we'd be man and wife

And that I could make you happy for the best part of your life

I love you still - Caroline

I love you still - Caroline

You look different every time you come

from the foam-crested brine

It's your skin shining softly in the moonlight

Partly fish, parly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale

Am I yours? Are you mine to play with?

Joking apart when you're drunk

You're terrific when you're drunk

I like you mostly late at night - you're quite all right

But I can't understand the different you

In the morning when it's time to play

at being human for a while

Please smile!

You'll be different in the spring, I know

You're a seasonal beast

Like the starfish that drifted with the tide, with the tide

So until your blood runs to meet the next full moon

Your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own

Your lunacy fits neatly with my own - my very own

We're not alone...

いかがですか？　なんとも耳に心地よい声でしょう？　あといくつか、ロバート・ワイアットの声の魅力を感じることのできる曲（ユーチューブ動画）をアップしておきます。