24 November 2011
Cheers, friends. I hope you are enjoying this day with family and friends. I’d like to take the opportunity to celebrate so many beautiful things in this life, including great music. It was 20 years today that the great Freddie Mercury left us, and I’d like to celebrate the greatness of this giant of Rock music by sharing this great piece, one of my favorite songs by Queen.
I learned the lyrics right in the winter of 1977 when the “News of the World” album came out, and a friend of Lenin school, José Antonio Rodríguez Acuña, was given the LP record as a present. And yes, there was something about freedom and flying away. In the end, many of us who so much longed for that freedom did fly away. Enjoy it!
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Saludos, amigos. Espero que estén disfrutando de esta jornada en compañía de familiares y amigos. Quisiera aprovechar la oportunidad para celebrar tantas cosas lindas en este vida, incluída la buena música. Fue hoy hace 20 años que nos dejó el gran Freddie Mercury, y quisiera celebrar la presencia de este gigante del Rock compartiendo este pedazo de canción, una de mis canciones favoritas de Queen.
Me aprendí la letra ahí mismo a finales de 1977 cuando salió el disco “Noticias del Mundo” y se lo trajo su padre a mi amigo José Antonio Rodríguez Acuña, de la Lenin, como regalo. Y sí, algo había en la canción sobre la libertad, y volar lejos. Al final, muchos de los que tanto ansiábamos aquella libertad, terminamos volando lejos. ¡Que la disfruten!
“So honey, ♪ spread your wings ♫ and fly away, ♪ fly away, ♫ far away… “
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! ¡Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias! Gracias Siempre Papá Dios TodoPoderoso por todas las cosas buenas y lindas que nos das en esta vida. Cheers, friends!
Ricardo Trelles
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Here are the lyrics, f you want to sing along, like me.
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
Words and music by John Deacon, sung by Queen
Sammy was low
Just watching the show
Over and over again
Knew it was time
He’d made up his mind
To leave his dead life behind
His boss said to him
‘Boy you’d better begin
To get those crazy notions right out of your head
Sammy who do you think that you are?
You should’ve been sweeping up the Emerald bar’
Spread your wings and fly away
Fly away far away
Spread your little wings and fly away
Fly away far away
Pull yourself together
‘Cos you know you should do better
That’s because you’re a free man
He spends his evenings alone in his hotel room
Keeping his thoughts to himself he’d be leaving soon
Wishing he was miles and miles away
Nothing in this world nothing would make him stay
Since he was small
Had no luck at all
Nothing came easy to him
Now it was time
He’d made up his mind
‘This could be my last chance’
His boss said to him ‘now listen boy
You’re always dreaming
You’ve got no real ambition you won’t get very far
Sammy boy don’t you know who you are?
Why can’t you be happy at the Emerald bar?’
So honey
Spread your wings and fly away
Fly away far away
Spread your little wings and fly away
Fly away far away
Pull yourself together
‘Cos you know you should do better
That’s because you’re a free man
Come on honey
FLY WITH ME!
Comment on Facebook by my good friend and photographer Carlos Lorenzo, in Barcelona:
¿Y pa dónde vas a ir? Cuidado no te acerques mucho al Sol como Icaro. Soñar es gratis. Seguro que en Cuba está letra estaba censurada, jajajaja
Pa Barcelona, Larry, pa París, Londres, o Barcelona. De querer, esos son los lugares donde me gustaría estudiar el doctorado. Claro, no hay chelines pa eso. Bueno, mira, págame el pasaje, compadre, dále, tírame un cabo “revolucionario” ahí, chico, anda… por allá nos veremos.
Supongo que no, que a Fidel ni a sus ministros ni milicianos les cuadraba la letra esta de “volar” y de ser “un hombre libre.” Pero igual, al final, aunque fuera en otro idioma, todos descubrimos el misterio de la libertad.
Visit my friend’s blog at blog http://www.carloslorenzo.net/. Or visit his gorgeous photos at http://www.barcelonaphotoblog.com/.
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Oh, but Queen is so great that we have to include at least one more, that’s it, friends, one for the road. Here’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Enjoy!
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Freddie Mercury, thank you for the great music of Queen. You are a giant, a monster! And Brian May, and John Deacon, and Roger Taylor, you all are monsters!
Rest In Peace, Freddie Mercury. We remember you!
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Ricardo Trelles
Ricardo Trelles 