Peter, Paul & Mary: Hangman

Hangman
Peter, Paul & Mary

Slack your rope hangman, slack it for a while
I think I see my father comin' ridin' many a mile
Father have you brought me hope or have you paid my fee
Or have you come to see me hangin' from the gallows tree?

I have not brought you hope, I have not paid your fee
Yes I have come to see you hangin' from the gallows tree.

Slack your rope hangman, slack it for a while
I think I see my mother comin' ridin' many a mile
Mother have you brought me hope or have you paid my fee
Or have you come to see me hangin' from the gallows tree?

I have not brought you hope, I have not paid your fee
Yes I have come to see you hangin' from the gallows tree.

Slack your rope hangman, slack it for a while
I think I see my brother comin' ridin' many a mile
Brother have you brought me hope or have you paid my fee
Or have you come to see me hangin' from the gallows tree?

I have not brought you hope, I have not paid your fee
Yes I have come to see you hangin' from the gallows tree.

Slack your rope hangman, slack it for a while
I think I see my true love comin' riding' many a mile
True love have you brought me hope or have you paid my fee
Or have you come to see me hangin' from the gallows tree?

Yes I have brought you hope, yes I have paid your fee
For I've not come to see you hangin' from the gallows tree.

Dedico esta canción a mi sobrina Teresa.

Joan Baez: Go away from my window

Ventana en Essaouira. Fotografía: Lucía Hernández Coderch

Go away from my window
(Canción tradicional norteamericana interpretada por Joan Baez)

Go away from my window
Go away from my door
Go away way way from my bedside
And bother me no more
And bother me no more

I’ll go tell all my brothers
Tell all my sisters too
The reason why my heart is broke
Is on account of you
Is on account of you

I’ll give you back your letters
I'll give you back your ring
But I'll never forget my own true love
As long as song birds sing
As long as song birds sing

Go away from my window
Go away from my door
Go away way way from my bedside
And bother me no more
And bother me no more

The Two Trees

William Butler Yeats (1908), retratado por John Singer Sargent.

THE TWO TREES

By William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with merry light;
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night;
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee...

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I feel like going home

¡Cómo me gusta esa guitarra!

Monday Monday

Monday Monday
The Mamas & The Papas

Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin', it was all I hoped it would be
Oh Monday mornin', Monday mornin' couldn't guarantee
That Monday evenin' you would still be here with me

Monday, Monday, can't trust that day
Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way
Oh Monday mornin' you gave me no warnin' of what was to be
Oh Monday, Monday, how could you leave and not take me

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin' all of the time

Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin', it was all I hoped it would be
But Monday mornin', Monday mornin' couldn't guarantee
That Monday evenin' you would still be here with me

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah (yeah)
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin' all of the time

Monday, Monday, can't trust that day
Monday, Monday, it just turns out that way
Oh Monday, Monday, won't go away
Monday, Monday, it's here to stay
Oh Monday, Monday
Oh Monday, Monday

Crying

Puesta de sol (1918), Félix Vallotton


Crying - Roy Orbison

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Katie Melua: Just Like Heaven

Just Like Heaven
(The Cure)
Interpretada por: Katie Melua

Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream he said
The one that makes me laugh he said
And threw his arms around my neck
Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you

Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed his face and I kissed his head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make him glow
Why are you so far away? he said
Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
You're just like a dream

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe his name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only boy I loved
And drowned him deep inside of me

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, just like heaven

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, just like heaven


Fotografía de Andreas Terslaak.

Margarita de los prados 4

Margarita silvestre, Bellorita (Bellis sylvestris). Fotografías: Elvira Coderch

Me acabo de acordar de esta canción, Daisy Bell:

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do, I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage - I can't afford a carriage, But you'd look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two. Las fotos que hizo Ofelia están aquí. ¡Os las recomiendo!

The Who: Pinball Wizard

Pinball Wizard
(Pete Townshend)
The Who

Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
But I ain't seen nothing like him
In any amusement hall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

He stands like a statue
Becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers
Always playing clean
He plays by intuition
The digit counters fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

He's a pinball wizard
There has to be a twist
A pinball wizard
He's got such a supple wrist

How do you think he does it?
(I don't know)
What makes him so good?

He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear no buzzers and bells
Don't see no lights a flashin'
Plays by sense of smell
Always has the replay
Never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

I thought I was
Just the Bally table king
But I just handed
My pinball crown to him

Even on my favourite table
He can beat my best
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest
He's got crazy flipper fingers
Never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

Dorothea Lange: No end in sight

No end in sight (1939). Fotografía de Dorothea Lange


City of New Orleans - Johnny Cash

Mr. Tambourine Man

Mr. Tambourine Man
Bob Dylan 1965

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy
and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning
I'll come followin' you.

Though I know that evenin's empire
has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand
but still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me,
I'm branded on my feet,
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's
too dead for dreaming.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man..

Take me on a trip
upon your magic swirlin' ship,
My senses have been stripped,
my hands can't feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step,
wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'.
I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade,
cast your dancing spell my way,
I promise to go under it.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man...

Though you might hear laughin',
spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun,
It's not aimed at anyone,
it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are
no fences facin'.
And if you hear vague traces
of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time,
it's just a ragged clown behind,
I wouldn't pay it any mind,
it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man...

Then take me disappearin'
through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time,
far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees,
out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of
crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath
the diamond sky
with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea,
circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven
deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today
until tomorrow.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man...


Y aquí la versión de The Byrds, que fue número 1 en USA:

Dos frases de Martha Graham

Martha Graham 1931. Fotografía de Imogen Cunningham

"El cuerpo expresa lo que las palabras no pueden decir." The body says what words cannot.

"El cuerpo nunca miente." - The body never lies.

Martha Graham (Bailarina y coreógrafa estadounidense - 1894-1991)

Russell Lee: American Shepherd

Pastor con su caballo y su perro en Gravelly Range Madison County, Montana, Agosto 1942. Fotografía de Russell Lee.


Country boy - Alan Jackson

Joe Cocker: You can leave your hat on

You can leave your hat on
(Randy Newman)
Interpretada por: Joe Cocker

Baby take off your coat
Real slow
Take off your shoes
I'll take off your shoes
Baby take off your dress
Yes, yes, yes

You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on

Go over there, turn on the light
Hey, all the lights
Come over here, stand on that chair
Yeah, that's right
Raise your arms up in the air
Now shake 'em
You give me reason to live
You give me reason to live
You give me reason to live
You give me reason to live

Sweet darling, (you can leave your hat on)
You can leave your hat on
Baby, (you can leave your hat on)
You can leave your hat on
(You can leave your hat on)
(You can leave your hat on)

Suspicious minds are talkin'
They're tryin' to tear us apart
They don't believe in this love of mine
They don't know what love is

They don't know what love is
They don't know what love is
They don't know what love is
Yeah, I know what love is

There ain't no way
(You can leave your hat on)
You can leave your hat on
(You can leave your hat on)
Give me the reason to live
(You can leave your hat on)
You can leave your hat on

Los cambios y la autoestima

California sister on leaf, fotografía de Steven Pinker

"Cada nuevo reajuste supone una crisis de autoestima."
"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem". Eric Hoffer

Nos gusta sentirnos seguros de nosotros mismos y del terreno que pisamos, pero en realidad todos los cambios profundos requieren de valor para atravesar un territorio desconocido y soportar la incertidumbre. Apreciar ese valor debería ayudarnos a aumentar nuestra autoestima, cosa que no ocurre cuando ponemos el énfasis en la inseguridad que sentimos al realizar los cambios.

(Ver más frases sobre este tema en las entradas: La sabiduría de la inseguridad y El valor de cambiar)

Farewell Angelina

Farewell Angelina
(Bob Dylan)
Interpretada por: Joan Baez

Farewell, Angelina
The bells of the crown
Are being stolen by bandits
I must follow the sound.
The triangle tingles
and the trumpets play slow.
Farewell, Angelina
the sky is on fire
and I must go.

There's no need for anger
There's no need for blame.
There's nothing to prove
Everything's still the same.
Just a table standing empty
by the edge of the sea means
Farewell, Angelina
the sky is trembling
and I must leave.

The jack and the queen
have forsake the courtyard.
Fifty-two gypsies
now file past the guards
In the space where the deuce
and the ace once ran wild
Farewell, Angelina
the sky is falling
I'll see you in a while.

See the cross-eyed pirates sitting
perched in the sun
shooting tin cans
with a sawed-off shotgun.
And the neighbors they clap
and they cheer with each blast.
Farewell, Angelina
the sky's changing color
and I must leave fast

King Kong, little elves
on the rooftop they dance
Valentino-type tangos
while the makeup man's hands
shut the eyes of the dead
not to embarrass anyone.
But Farewell, Angelina
the sky's embarrassed
and I must be gone.

The machine guns are roaring
and the puppets heave rocks
and fiends nail time bombs
to the hands of the clocks.
Call me any name you like
I will never deny it,
But Farewell, Angelina
the sky is erupting
I must go where it's quiet.

At last

At last
(Mack Gordon y Harry Warren)
Interpretada por: Etta James

At last, my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
Oh, yeah, at last
The skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clovers
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to rest my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
Oh, yeah when you smile, you smile
Oh, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
For you are mine
At last

Summertime

Summertime
(George Gershwin)
Interpretada por: Sam Cooke

Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich and your mamma's good-looking
So hush, little baby don't you cry

One of these mornings
You're gonna rise up singing
Then you spread your wings and take to the sky
But until that morning there is nothing can harm you, no, no, no, no
With your daddy and mommy standing by

Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm
The Doors

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm

There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If ya give this man a ride
Sweet memory will die
Killer on the road, yeah

Girl ya gotta love your man
Girl ya gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm

Can't help falling in love

Can't help falling in love
Elvis Presley

Wise men say
only fools rush in
but I can't help
falling in love with you.

Shall I stay

would it be a sin
if I can't help
falling in love with you.

Like a river flows
surely to the sea
darling so it goes
some things are meant to be.

Take my hand
take my whole life too
for I can't help falling
in love with you.