I would like to share the Lyrics of Gloomy Sunday as below together with the story on Wikipedia

 

Lyrics

Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless
Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless
Little white flowers will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you

Angels have no thoughts of ever returning you
Wouldn’t they be angry if I thought of joining you?
Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday, with shadows I spend it all
My heart and I have decided to end it all
Soon there’ll be candles and prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep, let them know that I’m glad to go

Death is no dream, for in death I’m caressin’ you
With the last breath of my soul, I’ll be blessin’ you

Gloomy Sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep in the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope that my dream never haunted you
My heart is tellin’ you how much I wanted you
Gloomy Sunday

  

Wikipedia

“Gloomy Sunday” is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933, as “Vége a Világnak” (“End of the world”).

It became well known throughout much of the English-speaking world after the release of a version by Billie Holiday in 1941. Lewis’s lyrics referred to suicide, and the record label described it as the “Hungarian Suicide Song”. There is a recurring urban legend that claims that many people committed suicide with this song playing.

Press reports in the 1930s associated at least 19 suicides, both in Hungary and America, with “Gloomy Sunday”, but most of the deaths supposedly linked to it are difficult to verify. The urban legend appears to be, for the most part, simply an embellishment of the high number of Hungarian suicides that occurred in the decade when the song was composed due to other factors such as famine and poverty. No studies have drawn a clear link between the song and suicide.

The BBC banned Billie Holiday’s version of the song from being broadcast, as being detrimental to wartime morale, but allowed performances of instrumental versions. However, there is little evidence of any other radio bans; the BBC’s ban was lifted by 2002.

 

BB Lee

"봄은 돌아와 꽃은 피어도/그대 가버린 쓸쓸한 방안에...."로 시작되는 

글루미 산데이는 첫줄부터 일제하에서 상처받은 이 땅의 젊은이들을 

매혹시켰다. 휘가로의 문은 방음을 위해 두꺼운 나무로 되어 있었다. 

그문이 잠깐식 열릴때마다 노래가 밖으로 새어 나왔는 데, 그때마다 늘 

다이마의 글루미 산데이가 흘러 나왔다. 이 노래는 나중에 적성국 노래라고 

해서 .. 금지되고 말았지만, 이때 당시 휘가로의 추억에 대해 명동백작 이봉구 

는 다음과같이 묘사 했다. 

 

"다미아(Damia)의 노래가 명동거리 다방에서 울려나오기 시작한 것은 1930년대 

후반기였다. 1938년경, 우리는 명동의 휘가로에서 다미아 의  샹송을 듣고 흥분했다.

진종일 비가 쏟아지는 어두운 날, 흐느껴 울부짖는 듯한 다미아의  노래는 고전음악감상애 

점잔을 빼고 있는 나를 완전히 흔들어버리고 말았다. 더욱이 다미아의 글루미 산데이는 

무서운 노래였다. ...... 어두운 일요일은 첫줄 부터 상처받은 이땅의 젊은 정신, 보헤미안

들을 사정없이 매혹 했다. 아침부터 밤중까지 연속해 듣고 함께 소리처 불렀다."

 

- 한국 근대사 산책, 제9권, 강준만 지음에서

 

https://youtu.be/3Gjd7xZmLLc

Damia 어두운 일요일

*비데오 바로 아래 오른쪽끝에 < 사인을 클릭 하시면 해설이 자세히 나옵니다.

What an ignorance, I had, Dr. Ohn, to make me feel embarrassed! I had no idea that this song was also popular in Korea among the intellectuals in '30 era.

Good to know more about the Korean side of the story involved in this gloomy song, Dr. Ohn, thanks.

The sad part of the story was the composer himself as well as suicide by jumping from the building to kill himself later besides so many young people with despairs.

BB Lee

Dr. Ohn, based on your comment on '휘가로'  and '명동백작 이봉구' I looked through Korean Google as you previously recommended and I became so nostalgic with more story along '명동' as the center of Korean(?) Bohemians we roamed around in 예과시절. Indeed, many old photos brought such fresh memories including the street where 'Alliance Française' located- I went to the evening class to study French given by 서울대 불문과 이휘영 교수 and his junior associate 김붕구교수 for full one year soon after I get in the premed school - and the 다방  쎄씨봉 named after the chanson C'est Si Bon we spent so much time near to 국립극장. Yes, we enjoyed 명동 so much including the song C'est Si Bon sung by Eartha Kitt (https://youtu.be/NWCo5ex40IQ) way before we got Yves Montand's  'C'est Si Bon'(https://youtu.be/RjqlLgycDRs).

Good old days!!!!

BB Lee

P.S. I attach the lyrics of C'est Si Bon as below;

C'est si bon

De partir n'importe où

Bras dessus, bras dessous

En chantant des chansons

 

C'est si bon

De se dire des mots doux

De petits riens du tout

Mais qui en disent long

 

En voyant notre mine ravie

Les passants dans la rue nous envient

C'est si bon

De guetter dans ses yeux

Un espoir merveilleux

Qui donne le frisson

 

C'est si bon

Ces petites sensations

Ça vaut mieux qu'un million

C'est tellement, tellement bon

 

(C'est bon, c'est bon)

Mmm, c'est bon

 

Voilà, c'est bon

Les passants dans la rue

Bras dessus, bras dessous

En chantant des chansons

Quel espoir merveilleux

Mmm, c'est bon

 

Je cherche un millionnaire

Avec des grands "Cadillac car"

"Mink coats"

Des bijoux jusqu'au cou, tu sais?

 

Mmm, c'est bon

Cette petites sensations

Ou peut-être quelqu'un

Avec un petit yacht, no?

 

Ah, c'est bon

C'est bon, c'est bon

Vous savez bien que j'attendrais

Quelqu'un qui pourrait m'apporter

Beaucoup de "loot"

 

Ce soir? Demain? La semaine prochaine?

N'importe quand

Mmm, c'est bon, si bon

Il sera très. Crazy, no?

Voilà, c'est tellement bon!