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"Southern Cross" is a song written by Stephen Stills, Rick Curtis and Michael Curtis and performed by the rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash. It was featured on the band's ''Daylight Again'' album and was released as a single in September 1982. Stephen Stills sings lead vocals throughout, with Graham Nash joining the second verse. Because David Crosby did not rejoin the band until the album was already underway, his vocals are not featured on the album version of the song, although he did appear in the video and subsequently sang the song with the group in live performances. The single was a respectable success on the charts, reaching #18 on the Hot 100 for three weeks in late November and early December 1982.〔http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1982-11-20〕〔http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1982-12-04〕 The song is about a man who sails the Pacific following a failed love affair. During the voyage, the singer takes comfort in sailing ("We got 80 feet of waterline. / Nicely making way."), in the beauty of the sea, and particularly in the Southern Cross, a constellation by which sailors in the Southern Hemisphere have traditionally navigated (the Southern Cross is not visible from most of the Northern hemisphere, the more tropical latitudes being the exception). But his final consolation is music ("I have my ship / And all her flags are a flyin' / She is all that I have left / And music is her name."). The video for the song, which got heavy play during the early years of the MTV and VH1 cable networks, featured Stephen Stills sailing a large boat (called ''Southern Cross''), intercut with images of the band singing.〔http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3004〕 Southern Cross is based on the song "Seven League Boots" by Rick and Michael Curtis. Stills explained, "The Curtis Brothers brought a wonderful song called 'Seven League Boots,' but it drifted around too much. I rewrote a new set of words and added a different chorus, a story about a long boat trip I took after my divorce. It's about using the power of the universe to heal your wounds. Once again, I was given somebody's gem and cut and polished it."〔CSN Boxed Set〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills & Nash )〕 ==Original recording== *Stephen Stills - lead vocals and acoustic guitar, co-writer *Graham Nash - vocals *Michael Finnigan - keyboards and additional vocals *Michael Stergis - acoustic guitar *George "Chocolate" Perry - bass *Joe Lala - percussion *Joe Vitale - drums *Timothy B. Schmit - backing vocals *Art Garfunkel - backing vocals *Rick Curtis - co-writer *Michael Curtis - co-writer 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills and Nash song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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