Twenty Flight Rock

フランク・タシュリン監督の『女はそれを我慢できない』(The Girl Can’t Help It, 1956) にある Eddie Cochran の曲。ジャン=リュック・ゴダールの 1957 年度のベスト・ワンは、もちろんニコラス・レイ監督の『にがい勝利』(Bitter Victory, 1957) だが、フランク・タシュリンの映画が 2 本もベストテンに入っている。ゴダールはフランク・タシュリンを最も褒めた人ではないだろうか。

Ooh, well I got a girl with a record machine
When it comes to rockin’ she’s the queen
We love to dance on a Saturday night
All alone where I can hold her tight
But she lives on the twentieth floor uptown
The elevator’s broken down

So I’ll walk one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight, more
Up on the twelfth I’m startin’ to drag
Fifteenth floor I’m a-ready to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock

When she calls me up on the telephone
Say, come on over honey, I’m all alone
I said, baby you’re mighty sweet
But I’m in bed with the achin’ feet
This went on for a couple of days
But I couldn’t stay away

So I’ll walk one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight, more
Up on the twelfth I’m startin’ to drag
Fifteenth floor I’m a-ready to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock

Well, they sent to Chicago for repairs
Till it’s a-fixed I’m a-usin’ the stairs
Hope they hurry up before it’s too late
Want my baby too much to wait
All this climbin’ is a-gettin’ me down
They’ll find my corpse draped over a rail

But I’ll climb one, two flight, three flight, four
Five, six, seven flight, eight flight, more
Up on the twelfth I’m startin’ to drag
Fifteenth floor I’m a-ready to sag
Get to the top, I’m too tired to rock

女はそれを我慢できない [DVD]