Zaterdag 17 mei 1980
I Was Seeing Nellie Home
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I Was Seeing Nellie Home (aka "When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home" or "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party"
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Zaterdag 17 mei 1980
El Necio
El Necio
Composer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Performer(s): Luis Eduardo Aute
and multiple other artists
Para no hacer de mi ícono pedazos
para salvarme entre únicos e impares
para cederme un lugar en su Parnaso
para darme un rinconcito en sus altares
me vienen a convidar a arrepentirme
me vienen a convidar a que no pierda
mi vienen a convidar a indefinirme
me vienen a convidar a tanta mierda
Yo no se lo que es el destino
caminando fui lo que fui
Allá Dios, que será divino
Yo me muero como viví
Yo quiero seguir jugando a lo perdido
yo quiero ser a la zurda más que diestro
yo quiero hacer un congreso del unido
yo quiero rezar a fondo un hijonuestro
Dirán que pasó de moda la locura
dirán que la gente es mala y no merece
más yo seguiré soñando travesuras
(acaso multiplicar panes y peces)
Yo no se lo que es el destino
caminando fui lo que fui
Allá Dios, que será divino
Yo me muero como viví
Dicen que me arrastrarán po sobre rocas
cuando la Revolución se venga abajo
que machacarán mis manos y mi boca
que me arrancarán los ojos y el badajo
Será que la necedad parió conmigo
la necedad de lo que hoy result anecio
la necedad de asumir al enemigo
la necedad de vivir sin tener precio
Yo no se lo que es el destino
caminando fui lo que fui
Allá Dios, que será divino
Yo me muero como viví
Vrijdag 16 mei 1980
Tug Of War
Tug Of War
Composer(s): Paul McCartney
Performer(s): Paul McCartney
It's A Tug Of War
What With One Thing And Another
It's A Tug Of War
We Expected More
But With One Thing And Another
We Were Trying To Outdo Each Other
In A Tug Of War
In Another World
In Another World We Could
Stand On Top Of The Mountain
With Our Flag Unfurled
In A Time To Come
In A Time To Come We Will Be
Dancing To The Beat Played
On A Different Drum
It's A Tug Of War
Though I Know I Mustn't Grumble
It's A Tug Of War
But I Can't Let Go
If I Do You'll Take A Tumble
And The Whole Thing Is Going To Crumble
It's A Tug Of War
Pushing Pushing, Pulling Puliing
Pushing And Pulling
In Years To Come They May Discover
What The Air We Breathe And The Life We Lead
Are All About
But It Won't Be Soon Enough
Soon Enough For Me
No It Won't Be Soon Enough
Soon Enough For Me
In Another World We Couid
Stand On Top Of The Mountain
With Our Flag Unfurled
In A Time To Come We Will Be
Dancing To The Beat Played
On A Different Drum
We Will Be Dancing To The Beat
Played On A Different Drum
We Will Be Dancing To The Beat
Played On A Different Drum
It's A Tug Of War, A Tug Of War
A Tug Of War
What With One Thing And Another
It's A Tug Of War
We Expected More
But With One Thing And Another
In A Tug Of War
Pushing Pushing, Pulling Pulling
Pushing And Pulling
Vrijdag 16 mei 1980
I Was Only Joking
I Was Only Joking
Composer(s): Rod Stewart; Gary Grainger
Performer(s): Rod Stewart
and multiple other artists
Ever since I was a kid at school
I messed around with all the rules
Apologised then realised
I'm not different after all
Me and the boys thought we had it sussed
Valentinos all of us
My dad said we looked ridiculous
But boy we broke some hearts
In and out of jobs, running free
Waging war with society
Dumb blank faces stare back at me
But nothing ever changed
Promises made in the heat of the night
Creeping home before it got too light
I wasted all that precious time
and blamed it on the wine
I was only joking my dear
Looking for a way to hide my fear
What kind of fool was I
I could never win
Never found a compromise
Collected lovers like butterflies
Illusions of that grand first prize
are slowly wearing thin
Susy baby you were good to me
Giving love unselfishly
But you took it all too seriously
I guess it had to end
I was only joking my dear
Looking for a way to hide my fear
What kind of fool was I
I could never win
Now you ask me if I'm sincere
That's the question that I always fear
Verse seven is never clear
But I'll tell you what you want to hear
I try to give you all you want
But giving love is not my strongest point
If that's the case it's pointless going on
I'd rather be alone
'Cause what I'm doing must be wrong
Pouring my heart out in a song
Owning up for prosperity
For the whole damn world to see
Quietly now while I turn a page
Act one is over without costume change
The principal would like to leave the stage
The crowd don't understand
Vrijdag 16 mei 1980
El Mundo Contra Mi
El Mundo Contra Mi
Composer(s): Fabiana Cantilo - Pedro Aznar
Performer(s): Pedro Aznar
Tuve amor pero siempre a destiempo
Nunca vi esa estrella fugaz
Al pedir tres deseos al viento
Reviví en tu amor que se va
Si morir es cobarde o valiente
Decidí que en mis manos está
Junto a mí vive toda esa gente
Sin vivir sin morir siempre así
Aunque el mundo esté contra mí
Y nadie me enseñe a vivir
Tengo sangre en las venas
Que arde más que esta pena de amor
Aunque el mundo esté contra mí
Y los tiempos vengan así
No estoy viva por nada
Hoy mis alas atadas abrí
Yo no quiero volverme tu igual
Ni saber si estoy bien o estoy mal
No soy de estos tiempos, soy de este momento
Soy la lluvia que lava este mar
Aunque el mundo esté contra mí
En mi amor aprendo a vivir
Ya cambió la marea
Y mis pies son la huella del sol
Donderdag 15 mei 1980
Tuff Enuff
Tuff Enuff
Composer(s): Kim Wilson
Performer(s): The Fabulous Thunderbirds
I would walk ten miles on my hands and knees
Ain't no doubt about it baby it's you I aim to please
I'd wrestle with a lion and a grizzly bear
It's my life baby but I don't care
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
For you baby I would swim the sea
Nothing I'd do for you that's too tuff for me
I'd put out a burning building with a shovel and dirt
And not even worry about getting hurt
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
I'd work twenty four hours, seven days a week
Just so I could come home and kiss your cheek
I love you in the morning and I love you at noon
I love you in the night and take you to the moon
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
I'd lay in a pile of burning money that I've earned
and not even worry about getting burned
I'd climb the Empire State Building, fight Muhammad Ali
Just to have you baby close to me
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Donderdag 15 mei 1980
I Was Only 19 (A Walk In the Light Green)
I Was Only 19 (A Walk In the Light Green)
Composer(s): John Schumann
First release by: Redgum - 1983
Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing-out parade at Puckapunyal
It was a long march from cadets
The sixth battalion was the next to tour, and it was me who drew the card
We did Canungra, Shoalwater before we left
And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay
This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean
And there's me in my slouch hat with my SLR and greens
God help me, I was only nineteen
From Vung Tau, riding Chinooks, to the dust at Nui Dat
I'd been in and out of choppers now for months
But we made our tents a home, VB and pinups on the lockers
And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub
And can you tell me, doctor, why I stil can't get to sleep?
And night-time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me, I was only nineteen
A four week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs
It was a war within yourself
But you wouldn't let your mates down til they had you dusted off
So you closed your eyes and thought about something else
Then someone yelled "Contact!" and the bloke behind me swore
We hooked in there for hours, then a Godalmighty roar
Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon
God help me, he was going home in June
I can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle
Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row
And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel
God help me, I was only nineteen
And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me, I was only nineteen
Donderdag 15 mei 1980
El Mundo
El Mundo
Composer(s): G. Meccia - Fontana - Pes - A. Martínez
Performer(s): Javier Solís
No, en esta noche ya no pienso amor en ti
abrí los ojos solamente para ver
si en torno a mí giraba el mundo como siempre
Gira el mundo gira en su espacio infinito
con amores que comienzan con amores que terminan
con las penas y alegrías de otras gentes como yo
El mundo, por eso ahora yo te miro
y en tu silencio yo me pierdo
y no soy nada al verte a ti
El mundo que no ha parado ni un momento
su noche muere y viene el día y ese día verá
El mundo, por eso ahora yo te miro
y en tu silencio yo me pierdo
y no soy nada al verte a ti
El mundo que no ha parado ni un momento
su noche muere y viene el día y ese día verá
El mundo
Woensdag 14 mei 1980
Tuesday's Gone
Tuesday's Gone
Composer(s): Ronnie Van Zant - Allen Collins
First release: Lynyrd Skynyrd - 1973
Covered by multiple other artists
Train roll on, on down the line
Won't you please take me far away?
Now I feel the wind blow outside my door
Means I'm leaving my woman behind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My woman's gone with the wind
And I don't know where I'm going
I just want to be left alone
Well, when this train ends I'll try again
But I'm leaving my woman at home
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My woman's gone with the wind
Train roll on many miles from my home
See, I'm riding my blues away
Tuesday, you see, she had to be free
But somehow I've got to carry on
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My woman's gone with the wind
Woensdag 14 mei 1980
I Was Made To Love Her
I Was Made To Love Her
Composer(s): Stevie Wonder; Lula Mae Hardaway; Henry Cosby; Sylvia Rose Moy
First release by: Stevie Wonder - 1967
Covered by multiple other artists
I was born in Lil' Rock
Had a childhood sweetheart
We were always hand in hand
I was hightop shoes and shirt tails
Suzy was in pig tails
I know I loved her even then
You know my papa disapproved it
My mama boohooed it
But I told them time and time again
"Don't you know I was made to love her
Built a world all around her"
Yah! Hey, hey, hey
She's been my inspiration
Showed appreciation
For the love I gave her through the years
Like a sweet magnolia tree
My love blossmed tenderly
My life grew sweeter through the years
I know that my baby loves me
My baby needs me
That's why we made it through the years
I was made to love her
Worship and adore her
Hey, hey, hey
All through thick and thin
Our love just won't end
'Cause I love my baby, love my baby
Ah!
My baby loves me
My baby needs me
And I know I ain't going nowhere
I was knee high to a chicken
When that love bug bit me
I had the fever with each passing year
Oh, even if the mountain tumbles
If this whole world crumbles
By her side I'll still be standing there
'Cause I was made to love her
I was made to live for her, yeah!
Ah, I was made to love her
Built my world all around her
Hey, hey, hey
Oo baby, I was made to please her
You know Stevie ain't gonna leave her, no
Hey, hey, hey
Oo wee baby, my baby loves me
My baby needs me
Hey, hey, hey
OO my baby loves me...
Woensdag 14 mei 1980
El Mayor
El Mayor
Composer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Performer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
and multiple other artists
El hombre se hizo siempre
de todo material
de villas señoriales
o barrio margina
Toda época fue pieza
de un rompecabezas
para subir la cuesta del gran reino animal
con una mano negra
y otra blanca mortal
Mortales ingredientes
armaron al Mayor
luz de terratenientes
y de Revolución
destreza de la esgrima
sucesos como un preso
Amalia abandonada
por la bala
la vergüenza, el amor
o un fusilamiento
un viejo cuento
modelaron su adiós
Va cabalgando
El Mayor con su herida
y mientras más mortal el tajo
es más de vida
Va cabalgando
sobre una palma escrita
y a la distancia de cien años
resucita
Trota sobre la espuma
seguido por un mar
de negros en machete
y sin encadenar
Ordena a su corneta
el toque de a degüello
y a un siglo de distancia
entona nuestra canción
y con recia garganta
canta
espanta
lejos la maldición
Va cabalgando
El Mayor con su herida
y mientras más mortal el tajo
es más de vida
Va cabalgando
sobre una palma escrita
y a la distancia de cien años
resucita
Dinsdag 13 mei 1980
Tuesday Heartbreak
Tuesday Heartbreak
Composer(s): Stevie Wonder
First release: Stevie Wonder - 1972
Tuesday heartbreak seem to be unfair
Cause you say that you found another man
Tuesday break heart, guess you just don't care
Cause you found you another man
I want to be with you when you're all alone
I want to be with you
when you feel you got another man
You see, baby, it's all alright
I wanna be with you when the nightime comes
I wanna be with you when the daytime comes
I wanna stay, oh baby, lemme, baby with you
Tuesday heartbreak seem to be a drag
When you know that you love her especially
Catch up baby, catch up with my dreams
Maybe than I can see you all the time
But I wanna be with you when the nightime comes
I wanna be with you when the daytime comes
I wanna stay and never go away
Oh baby, it's alright
I wanna be with you when the nightime comes
I wanna stay with you till the morning runs
I wanna, baby, baby, baby, it's alright
I wanna be with you when the nightime comes
I wanna be with you till the daytime comes
Oh baby, get away, alright
Dinsdag 13 mei 1980
I Was Brought To My Senses
I Was Brought To My Senses
Composer(s): Sting
Performer(s): Sting; The MadHatters; Abigail Riccards
Alone with my thoughts this evening
I walked on the banks of Tyne
I wondered how I can win you
or if I could make you mine
or if I could make you mine
The wind it was so insistent
With tales of a stormy south
But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
There came a dryness in my mouth
Came a dryness in my mouth
For then without rhyme or reason
The two birds did rise up and fly
And where the two birds were flying
I swear I saw you and I
I swear I saw you and I
I walked out this morning
it was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
For the first time I saw the work of heaven
in the line where the hills had been married to the sky
And all around me
ev'ry blade of singing grass
was calling out your name
and that our love would always last
And inside ev'ry turning leaf
is the pattern of an older tree
the shape of our future
the shape of all our history
And out of the confusion
where the river meets the sea
came things I'd never seen
things I'd never seen
I was brought to my senses
I was blind now that I can see
ev'ry signpost in nature
said you be...
...long to me
I know it's true
It's written in a sky as blue
As blue as your eyes, as blue as your eyes
If nature's red in tooth and claw
Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw
The wounds she gave me
Were the wounds that would heal me
And we'd be like the moon and sun
And when our courtly dance had run
it's course across the sky
Then together we would lie
And out of the confusion
where the river meets the sea
Something new would arrive
Something better would arrive
I was brought to my senses
I was blind now that I can see
ev'ry signpost in nature
said you belong to
I was brought to my senses
I was blind now that I can see
ev'ry signpost in nature
said you belong to
I was brought to my senses
I was blind now that I can see
ev'ry signpost in nature
said you belong to me
Dinsdag 13 mei 1980
El Matador
El Matador
Composer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Performer(s): Silvio Rodríguez
Siento un hilo profundo
que atraviesa el espacio
-de tiempo en tiempo llega
despacio-
Siento olor de llanuras
llenas de peregrinos
-la llanura se llama
camino-
Siento de pronto el gusto
de un raro mineral
me siento a veces hombre
y muchas animal
Se confunde el deseo
de calentar la piel
con rugidos lejanos
que recuerdan mujer
Y en una playa angosta caen del cielo
estas reminiscencias de veneno
Yo no sé, pero hay días sin reposo
que lo que tenga cerca lo destrozo
muy primitivamente, casi salvajemente
con odio, con desprecio, con rencor
con palabras hirientes, con garras y con dientes
con rabia, con violencia, con horror
Le he cantado a la muerte
como nadie con vida
mas yo dijera siempre
querida
Junto a cada palabra
hay cuerpos de millones
y los maté yo mismo
perdonen
A veces se me olvida
que mato por vivir
y olvido los entierros
y no quiero dormir
El día que me acusen
no me defenderé
esta culpa es muy vieja, de todos la heredé
Y en una playa angosta caen del cielo
estas reminiscencias de veneno
Yo no sé, pero hay días sin reposo
que lo que tenga cerca lo destrozo
muy primitivamente, casi salvajemente
con odio, con desprecio, con rencor
con palabras hirientes, con garras y con dientes
con rabia, con violencia, con horror
Maandag 12 mei 1980
Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)
Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)
Composer(s): Justin Hayward
Performer(s): The Moody Blues
and multiple other artists
Tuesday afternoon
I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way
It doesn't matter to me, chasing the clouds away
Something calls to me
The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why
Those gentle voices I hear, explain it all with a sigh
I'm looking at myself reflections of my mind
It's just the kind of day to leave myself behind
So gently swaying through the fairyland of love
If you'll just come with me you'll see the beauty of
Tuesday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon
I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way
It doesn't matter to me, chasing the clouds away
Something calls to me
The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why
Those gentle voices I hear, explain it all with a sigh
Maandag 12 mei 1980
I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago
I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago
(aka "The Liar"; "The Bragging Song"; "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago"; "I Was Borned About Four Thousand Years Ago")
(Traditional)
Performer(s): Kelly Harrell
and multiple other artists
I was born ten thousand years ago
And there's nothing in this world that I don't know
I saw Pater, Paul, and Moses playing ring around the roses
And I'll lick the guy that say it isn't so
I saw Satan when he looked the garden o'er
I saw Eve and Adam driven from the door
And behind the bushes peepin', saw the apple they were eatin'
And I swear that I'm the guy that ate the core
I saw Jonah when he was within the whale
And thought he'd never live to tell the tale
But old Jonah'd eaten garlic, and he gave the whale the colic
So he coughed him up and let him out of jail
I saw Israel in the battle of the Nile
The arrows were flying thick and fast and wild
I saw David with his sling pop Goliath on the wing
I was doing forty seconds to the mile
I saw Sampson when he laid the village cold
Saw Daniel tame the lions in their hold
I helped build the Tower of Babel up as high as they were able
And there's many other things I haven't told
I taught Soloman his little A-B-C's
I helped Brigham Young to make limberger cheese
And while sailing down the bay with Methusala one day
I saved his flowing whiskers from the breeze
Queen Elizabeth, she fell in love with me
We were married in Milwaukee secretly
But I schemed around and shook her, then she went with General Hooker
To shoot mosquitoes down in Tenessee
I remember when the country had a king
I saw Cleopatra pawn her wedding ring
And I saw th flags a'flyin' when George Washington stopped lyin'
On the night when Patty first begin to sing
So, you see I am an educated man
To keep my brains in my head I plan
Cause I been on earth so long, that I use to sing a song
While Abraham and Issac played the band
I was born ten thousand years ago
And there's nothing in this world that I don't know
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses
And I can lick the guy that says it isn't so
Maandag 12 mei 1980
El Martillo
El Martillo
((Adapted from: The Hammer Song (The Weavers) - 1949))
Composer(s): Lee Hays - Pete Seeger - Victor Jara
Performer(s): Victor Jara - 1969
Versions In Other Languages:
1956 - If I Had A Hammer (Pete Seeger)
1963 - Si J'avais Un Marteau (Claude François)
1963 - Datemi Un Martello (Rita Pavone)
Oh hermano, oh hermano
Si tuviera un martillo
golpearia en la mañana
golpearia en la noche
por todo el pais
Alerta el peligro
debemos unirnos para defender
la paz
Si tuviera una campana
tocaria en la mañana
golpearia en la noche
por todo el pais
Alerta el peligro
debemos unirnos para defender
la paz
Si tuviera una cancion
cantaria en la mañana
cantaria en la noche
por todo el pais
Alerta el peligro
debemos unirnos para defender
la paz
Ahora tengo un martillo
y tengo una campana
y tengo una cancion que cantar
por todo el pais
Martillo de justicia
campana de libertad
y una cancion de paz
Zondag 11 mei 1980
Tucumcari
Tucumcari
Composer(s): Mark McIntyre - William Olofson
Performer(s): Jimmie Rodgers
Twelve more miles to Tucumcari
I've been hurrying there
To the gal I'm gonna marry
With the yellowest hair
Left, right, march along
I just gotta get home (Just gotta get home)
Ten more miles to Tucumcari
Then I'll never more roam
(Tucumcari, Tucumcari, I just gotta get home)
Eight more miles to Tucumcari
It's the fourth of July
Been three years in January
Since I kissed her goodbye
Left, right, march along
I've just gotta get home (Just gotta get home)
Six more miles to Tucumcari
Then I'll never more roam
(Tucumcari, Tucumcari, I just gotta get home)
Four more miles to Tucumcari
Not much further to go
Got no time to waste or tarry
She'll be waitin' I know
Left, right, march along
I've just gotta get home (Just gotta get home)
Two more miles to Tucumcari
Then I'll never more roam
(Tucumcari, Tucumcari, I just gotta get home)
Here I am in Tucumcari
Found my yellow-haired gal
Just in time to see her marry
With my very best pal
Left, right, march along
Guess I better be gone (I better be gone)
A thousand miles from Tucumcari
I'll be rambling on
(Tucumcari, Tucumcari, I'll be rambling on)
A hundred miles from Tucumcari
Down in Santa Fe
Fell in love with a girl named Mary
Gee I'm happy today
No more marching now
Found my honeycomb (Found my honeycomb)
I've forgotten Tucumcari
No more reason to roam
(Tucumcari, Tucumcari)
I've forgotten Tucumcari
No more reason to roam
Zondag 11 mei 1980
I Was Born In Virginia
I Was Born In Virginia (aka "Virginia" or "Ethel Levey's Virginia Song")
Composer(s): George M. Cohan
Performer(s): Ethel Levey
I was born in a Southern state
Where all nature's sublime
In a city where the gals are pretty
And the sun shines nearly all the time
Hospitality there you'll find
Bright smiles ev'rywhere
When I look 'roun' and see some other town
I'm mighty glad I come from there
I was born in Virginia
That's the state that will win yer
If you've got a soul in yer
Ain't no Southern frown
In the city of Norfolk
Home of beauties and war talk
Reckon you'll like it, if you should strike it
That doggarn town
Something nice about Southerners
You don't find ev'rywhere
Never con yer, but they smile upon yer
And they make you happy while you're there
Old Kentucky and Tennessee
They can certainly go some
Travel far and wide, still I'm satisfied
To settle in the state I'm from
I was born in Virginia
That's the state that will win yer
If you've got a soul in yer
Ain't no Southern frown
In the city of Norfolk
Home of beauties and war talk
Reckon you'll like it, if you should strike it
That doggarn town
Zondag 11 mei 1980
El Mala Estrella
