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Thread #129198   Message #2903471
Posted By: bankley
09-May-10 - 10:35 PM
Thread Name: Michelle Shocked (muso) looking for topical songs
Subject: RE: Michelle Shocked (muso) looking for topical songs
the Spanish in Wanted Man reminds me some of Llano Estacado..
a story/song I made up for some German friends about their author Karl May


"Mein vater war nicht, ich glaube,
nicht verk lischt ein bleisgeseicht...
O lo siento compadre,como lo diria differente ?

Papa had red skin wrapped around his soul
like a woven blanket from the Navajo
whose stories and patterns did unfold
and told of our bold adventures
all his colours danced and shone like gold
they were not enslaved nor indentured"


pardon my German and Spanish spelling,, it sings better than it looks !

however 'Break Even' and 'Change' are the songs she likes, I'll ask her to sing the chorus with me... who knows ?

"We might break even, we might not even break at all
Maybe just bend a bit, whatever fits, somewhere before the fall"