C.G. Furst (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} theclownhunt) wrote,@ 2007-09-21 10:58:00 |
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La Golondrina -- memorial music
I've been thinking about what kind of music, if any, to play at my father-in-law's memorial on September 30, and the best song I can think of is the Mexican farewell song "La Golondrina," about a swallow who cannot return.
And the best version that I've heard comes from, yes, don't laugh, "The Wild Bunch," where the people in Angel's village say farewell to the Bunch as they ride away to their fates. The song begins at 5:17 in the scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wQGf5MR
A few of the words:
Tambien yo estoy
en la region perdida,
Oh, Cielo Santo!
y sin poder volar.
I, too, am in the lost region,
Oh, heavens, and powerless to fly.
I've been thinking about what kind of music, if any, to play at my father-in-law's memorial on September 30, and the best song I can think of is the Mexican farewell song "La Golondrina," about a swallow who cannot return.
And the best version that I've heard comes from, yes, don't laugh, "The Wild Bunch," where the people in Angel's village say farewell to the Bunch as they ride away to their fates. The song begins at 5:17 in the scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wQGf5MR
A few of the words:
Tambien yo estoy
en la region perdida,
Oh, Cielo Santo!
y sin poder volar.
I, too, am in the lost region,
Oh, heavens, and powerless to fly.
