Cap. 8 –LUISA (3) Come vi ho detto, il secondogenito del Vate, Gabriellino, non era riuscito a rendersi utile al padre trovandogli una casa in Liguria, battuto sul tempo dal segretario Antongini che aveva scovato la dimora ideale sul lago di Garda in cui rifugiarsi con Luisa Baccara. Gabriellino è il figlio prediletto, quello che… Read More Le donne del mio Vate – ☾XLIV☽ 🖋️
Harry Belafonte (1927 –25 April 2023) “BANANA BOAT SONG” – 1956Day-o, day-oDaylight come and we want go homeDay, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day-oDaylight come and we want go home Work all night on a drink of rum(Daylight come and we want go home)Stack banana ’til… Read More Harry Belafonte🖤
As I’ve already written (here) “Barbara Allen” began as a ballad in the seventeenth century or earlier and was published and performed under many different titles, in a vast array of tunes and narrative details.The earliest text was published in London in 1690, under the title “Barbara Allen’s cruelty: or, the young-man’s tragedy”. It appeared… Read More Barbara Allen/2
Originally posted on la regina gioiosa:
Anonimo (sec. XVII): Barbara Allen, ballad di origine scozzese. Alfred Deller, controtenore; Desmond Dupré, liuto. In Scarlet town where I was born There was a fair maid dwellin’, Made ev’ry youth cry «Well-a-day.» Her name was Barbara Allen. All in the merry month of may, When green buds they…
Shel Silverstein wrote a sequel to “A Boy Named Sue” (see here) called “The Father of a Boy Named Sue”. It is an irreverent and morally questionable folk song, brutally realistic in portraying the nastiness in the world around us. The story is told from the father’s point of view: he admits that he lied… Read More The Father of a Boy Named Sue 🎶
Today is the anniversary of the death of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.On the afternoon of Tuesday, 16 August 1977, Elvis Presley was found unconscious on the floor of his bathroom in his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, by his girlfriend, Ginger Alden.By the end of his career, Elvis was merely a shadow of… Read More “Elvis Left the Building”
“This Land Is Your Land” is one of the United States’ most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie in 1940 on an existing Baptist gospel hymn that had already inspired the Carter Family Some have called “This Land Is Your Land” an alternative national anthem. Others say it’s a Marxist response… Read More “This Land Is Your Land” (2)
In Italy, for months, we have been watching on TV the advertising of a telephone company that uses this song and showcases a series of fake news, to warn against easy credulity This is the video that I share because it’s funny and not because I want to advertise the company of which I know… Read More A song: “Get Up, Get Out”
This Land Is Your Land This land is your land This land is my land From California to the New York island; From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and Me. As I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless skyway:… Read More THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
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