4. The Franklin’s Tale of Canterbury Tales & "Lucky"

About the Book:

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly written in verse although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

The Link with the Song:
Lucky is a song that you can observe a dialogue between a man, who is far away, and a woman that is waiting for him. The distance doesn’t matter for them because they are in love and waiting for the moment that they’ll be together again. The Franklin’s Tale of Canterbury Tale is a history about a woman called Dorigen, who awaits the return of her husband, and a man named Arveragus, who has gone to England to win honor in feats of arms. She worries that the ship bringing her husband home will wreck itself on the coastal rocks, and she promises Aurelius, a young man who falls in love with her, that she will give her body to him if he clears the rocks from the coast. Aurelius hires a student learned in magic to create the illusion that the rocks have disappeared. Arveragus returns home and, in this moment, what is more important, the love or the promise? 

Lucky - Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat

from the album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (2009)

Writers: Jason Mraz, Colbie Caillat, Timothy Fagan

Do you hear me, I'm talking to you 

Across the water across the deep blue ocean 

Under the open sky oh my, baby I'm trying 

Boy I hear you in my dreams 

I feel you whisper across the sea 

I keep you with me in my heart 

You make it easier when life gets hard 

Lucky I'm in love with my best friend 

Lucky to have been where I have been 

Lucky to be coming home again 

They don't know how long it takes 

Waiting for a love like this 

Every time we say goodbye 

I wish we had one more kiss 

I wait for you I promise you, I will 

Lucky I'm in love with my best friend 

Lucky to have been where I have been 

Lucky to be coming home again 

Lucky we're in love in every way 

Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed 

Lucky to be coming home someday 

And so I'm sailing through the sea 

To an island where we'll meet 

You'll hear the music, feel the air 

I put a flower in your hair 

And though the breeze is through trees 

Move so pretty you're all I see 

As the world keep spinning round 

You hold me right here right now 

Lucky I'm in love with my best friend 

Lucky to have been where I have been 

Lucky to be coming home again 

Lucky we're in love in every way 

Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed 

Lucky to be coming home someday